Once When We Danced

She knew her life would not ever be the same...she'd been left behind and alone with no silver lining in sight...but someday...

By: Jacie Middlemann

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She came looking for her father…

Bessie felt more secure and safer than she had in all the months since her mother died. There was always lots of food in the resort’s main kitchen and she had her choice of any room she wanted. John was almost as good at her favorite video games as she was and while she wasn’t certain whether to believe him or not, he’d told her that her father was even better.

She would have really liked to play video games with him and found out for herself.

There was so much she wanted to know about her father. So many questions that bubbled around in her head. And after a while, she realized that no matter how many she asked, that John would answer each and every one even though she could see for herself that it wasn’t always easy for him to talk about her Dad.

Then there was the one question she’d asked that made him smile…and not just because he was trying to make her feel better. And then he remembered something that he promised would help her know her father even better than all the stories he’d told her.

He was right.

But just once, she so wished that she could have danced with her Dad. Just once.

Ruth and John were each struggling through the grief of losing a spouse. They’d known each other for years but for all that didn’t know each other very well. Yet they shared a common bond…the immeasurable grief that came as part of the painful cost of loving.

But they found another equally unbreakable bond that forged a friendship when both were looking for solitude and privacy.

During Ruth’s visit to John’s resort only week’s after her husband’s death, keeping the reservations they’d made to travel there together, she saw a light in one of the empty cabins. Driven by curiosity, she explored…and found Bessie.

Richard’s Child is an ongoing series of novellas about the unlimited strength and acceptance of family, and the unbreakable bonds of friendship.

Richard’s Child series
Light in the Window
Once When We Danced