by Tina Susedik
“What did you say?”
Lily held a hand out to him. Jack rose. “It’s Lily. Don’t you see her?”
“I do, Jack. She’s lovely.” Sarah’s voice held a tinge of awe.
Why was she here? Why now, when he’d found another to love? When he was happy again? Was Lily warning him away from Sarah?
He glanced from Lily to his new wife, who stood beside him. Sarah’s smile, as she reached out a hand to Lily, was beautiful.
What the hell was going on here?
“She’s saying good-bye.”
Jack turned his attention away from Sarah and back to the vision of Lily. “How do you know?”
“She told me.” Sarah took his hand, squeezed his fingers, and rested her head on his shoulder.
A familiar, loving voice came to him.
“I’m happy. It’s all right for you to be happy.” Lily blew him a kiss. “I love you, Jack Billabard.” Her words came as a whisper as she faded away.
He didn’t know whether to scream, howl, or cry. Maybe all three. Before he chased after the elusive vision, another appeared.
A man and woman held hands. Her long golden hair flowed down her back. The man held a rifle at his side. A boy on the cusp of manhood stood beside him. A young girl appeared and held the woman’s hand. One by one, more girls came into the scene.
Jack counted five children in all before they stopped entering the picture. Standing in a row, hands joined, they swung their arms back and forth, as if they didn’t have a care in the world. Finally, a small boy ran up and grabbed the man’s legs. He bent down and swooped the boy into his arms. The woman, her stomach round with yet another child, angled toward the man and kissed him.
Jack’s lips tingled as if the vision had actually pressed a kiss there. His chest nearly burst with all the joy and happiness floating around.
“I believe that’s us, Jack Billabard.” Sarah’s smile gave the sun a dash for its money.
“I believe you’re right, Sarah Billabard. Yes indeed, I believe you’re right.”
Before their eyes, the family faded and the tree disappeared . . . leaving behind a future and a promise of everlasting love.
Thank you for reading The Trail to Love, by Tina Susedik, Book Four in THE SOUL MATE TREE COLLECTIVE! If you enjoyed the read, please consider leaving a review on Amazon.
The Collective continues with May’s release, Make Me a Match, by Mackenzie Lucas:
Widower Mark Cage is rusty at relationships. Owner of an award-winning microbrewery, and supplier to St. Augustine’s premiere resort, Essence, his only interest is building his business and raising his teenage daughter. Until he runs into a sweet kindergarten teacher vacationing at the resort. Combined with an inexplicable encounter with a mystical tree, Mark is convinced the woman is his destined match.
His only hope of persuading his skittish lady to go out with him is working with the spa’s onsite relationship coach and blogger, Athena Sullivan. Athena is the opposite of everything Mark wants in a woman. Feisty and independent, sparks fly from their first meeting as Athena helps him navigate the dating scene.
After a series of too-perfect, and mind-boggling boring dates, Mark realizes that the woman of his dreams may not be the sweet schoolteacher after all, but the feisty woman who challenges him at every turn.
If he can only open himself up to loving again, he might just find his true soul mate.
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