CHAPTER 53
She’d only spent one Sunday stuck away in Orchard Grove, but within her first few minutes back at her father’s church in Seattle she sensed how much had changed.
People who two weeks ago had been cool or reserved now gave her heart-felt hugs, asking her how her week away visiting her grandmother was.
Ironic that Jillian went to Orchard Grove ostensibly to care for her aging grandmother, and now that Grandma Lucy was in the hospital, Jillian was back home.
Her mom pinched her elbow. “Stop scowling. You look miserable.”
“I wasn’t scowling,” she muttered, but her mom had already sidled up to one of the new couples and ignored her.
Jillian sighed. Her dad’s church catered to young families. Lots of toddlers running around, babies crying everywhere you turned. There were some t
