Maggie’s gut writhed like she’d swallowed a nest of live snakes. She’d called her mother when she’d first arrived in Grape Seed Falls, but the conversation hadn’t gone well. Maggie hadn’t cared then. She had two more days with the man she loved, and she wasn’t going to let her parents ruin that.
But the fact remained that she still lived in their house, and her apartment wouldn’t be ready for another ten days. She didn’t have much of a social life as she’d spent every weekend last summer and fall in Three Rivers and she worked six days a week at the store.
She sat by her parents and sisters at church, and if she had to leave before her apartment was ready, she had no idea where she’d go.
Her thoughts bounced around her head and her emotions started on a roller coaster. One moment she’d
