Surviving Day by Day (Book 3): Still They Come Read Free Page B

direction Charlie had rode, “Just need you to help me listen in case Charlie has issues, and I didn’t want the girls to know he left.” Alden looked over at him, “Well hell, you are just standing there, why don’t you hop your ass up in the trailer and grab those cans of peaches I asked for?”
    Colt smiled as he jumped up in the trailer and began searching. “Hey, I just found canned chicken!!! I can make us chicken and dumplings!!! Oh and here are your peaches.”
    Colt started setting things down on the end of the trailer. Alden snagged up the Bisquick, “I could damn sure go for some good chicken and dumplings. Now keep in mind, I said good.”
    As Colt sat the last of the stuff down and jumped to the ground, he looked to Alden, “I make a mean batch of dumplings. It’s one of the very few things my mother taught me. Not sure how it will be with canned chicken but hey it can’t be too bad, right?”
    Alden picked up one of the cans of chicken, “Das Dutchman Essenhaus All Natural Canned Chicken… don’t that sound like some fancy shit? Look at this; it has a picture of an Amish guy in a buggy.” Laughing Alden turned it to show Colt.
    Colt laughed, “Yeah and the bottom says ‘Amish Country Kitchen’! Are we really supposed to believe the Amish canned this?”
    Charlie came riding up just as Colt said it, “We got some Amish around here?”
    Alden tossed Charlie the can, “Nope, but they seem to be making sure we get a good meal. Now get off that horse, get it unsaddled and fed before Ceara comes out to check on you.”
    Charlie looked at the label and tossed it back to Colt then climbed out of the saddle, “I know boss.”
    Charlie led the horse to the barn as Alden started for the house, “Grab the peaches, the girls must wonder where we are.”
    Tabitha was in her room getting cleaned up from her hunt when from out of nowhere she heard a knocking on her door. Pulling on a pair of sweats and throwing on a grey tee shirt “Come on in.”
    Slowly Beth opened the door, “How are you feeling Tabitha?”
    Tabitha sat down on the bed folding her legs underneath her. “About as well as can be expected I guess. Supper tonight is going to be dynamite. I guess I better get out there and help you with it.”
    Somehow Tabitha’s body language just wasn’t showing that she was in an all fire hurry to do what she was suggesting.
    Beth quietly closed the door behind her then made her way over to sit beside Tabitha and gently placed her arm around her shoulder. “I just want you to know that I am here if you need to talk. You know how you were with me back at the cabins in the beginning? Well this is my time to be there for you …. that is if you need anything.”
    Tabitha smiled a little smile then turned to see Beth giving her the sweetest and sincerest look that she had ever done. Reaching up to grab Beth’s hand, she held it tightly, “I just never been that close to a man, like I was with Heath and I am not referring to it as a sexual way.”
    Turning to face Beth on the bed Tabitha got really quiet for a minute and Beth waited. Once she was ready she continued, “All my miserable life, I have been out to protect myself and never needed anyone for anything; but this group right here… well you all have become my family and losing Heath was like losing part of myself. What I am trying to explain Beth, is we talked on nights while we were on watch. Sometimes we didn’t say a word at all and that was when we really communicated the most…… when no words were spoken at all. I know he had lost his son and that tore at his soul. However, as selfish that I am right now by wanting him back, I wouldn’t take him away from being reunited with his son because a son needs his father.”
    Beth smiled, “You know something Tabitha; that says a lot about who you really are. It was horrible that I had to put my family down but I had seen what Dad had done when he came back…. well there was no way that I