Carolyne Aarsen - Twin Blessings and Toward Home - Twin Blessings / Toward Home

She glanced past the girls at Logan, who lay on the blanket, his hand under his head. He seemed to know what he wanted and how to go about getting it. In spite of his interference, or maybe because of it, she realized that he was a concerned uncle. She wondered how many of the men she had met in her life would willingly take in two young girls, thereby risking their own freedom.

She sighed lightly, her gaze falling on the girls who were watching her watching Logan.

She looked away.

“How many have you seen, Bethany?” she asked, disconcerted that they had caught her staring at their uncle.

“Four already.”

“Good for you.” She lay back, watching the sky, reminding herself of the reason she was here. The girls first and foremost.

“The stars sure are peaceful,” Logan said quietly. “Unchanging. Always the same. Amazing.”

A few moments before, Sandra might have agreed with him, but her reactions to him left her feeling edgy.

“Actually they aren’t,” she contradicted. “Out there are colliding neutron stars, gamma ray bursts, black holes. All kinds of noise and confusion.”

“What’s a gamma ray?” Bethany asked.

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