Shelby's Awakening: Legacy Series: The Beasley's Book Three by Leila Lacey Page B

to do was convince himself that she would forgive him. Standing there now thinking about his talk with Jackson Beasley, it reminded him that Shelby had suffered the loss of their child, and had almost lost her life because he failed her. Now she was fighting for her ability to walk and he was watching from afar, too afraid of how she could hurt him.
    “I ... I gotta get going, you guys,” Logan said abruptly to Cassidy and Lance looking back through the glass seeing Shelby take small steps and smiling at how happy she looked.
    “Take care of her ,” he said before he turned and walked away. Logan had a lot of work to do.

 
    CHAPTER TWO
                 
    “Shelby , you are making such progress.  I am so proud of you,” Sarah said to her. Sarah had been to the hospital and rehab facility every day for four or five hours at a time since the accident. Shelby had spent a lot of time with both of her mothers lately, which had been uncomfortable to say the least, but the talks they had shared had been eye opening and bonding. Right now, Sarah was floating around the room in her p etite sleeveless color block shaped shift dress with color blocked stripes that draws the eye upwards on the dress for a complimenting look; white fades from grey to cerulean to navy in applique stripes, with chunky cerulean colored jewelry and silver strappy stilettos. She was fluffing Shelby’s pillows and arranging one of the five dozen bouquets she brought Shelby every day. Shelby looked over at Cassidy who had come to work out with Shelby and stayed to talk with her for a while and rolled her eyes upward in her head and dropped her head back.  Chuckling under her breath, Cassidy whispered, “Guilt really does put a fire in one’s ass, doesn’t it?” laughing as she finished her sentence.
    “I heard that , Cassidy!” Sarah said turning around to face her daughter and Cassidy who were both trying to hold back their laughter. “You are never too old to get a good old fashioned ass whoopin’, young lady,” Sarah said jokingly.
    Jumping up out of her seat , Cassidy started backing toward the door to leave the room. “See what you did Shelby, you have gotten me in trouble again,” Cassidy said.
    Laughing , Shelby said, “Don’t blame me because you can’t whisper worth a damn!”
    “Yes , dear, you really have never been able to whisper. I used to ask your mother if she had made sure your hearing was ok,” Sarah said joining in ribbing of Cassidy. That was one of the things that had changed in her mother; she joked, and laughed and smiled with Shelby and Lance and, like today, sometimes even Cassidy. The changes in her mother had made Shelby uneasy but now she was glad she had made some adjustments and they were spending time together getting to know each other. Sometimes when they were talking, Shelby realized it was almost like she did not know her own mother. Shelby realized that her mom had felt alone and unloved in the world since her marriage to her father, a man that valued the “legacy” of his family and his fortune more than he did the people that loved him. Shelby still felt anger at her mother for treating her the way she had all those years, but she better understood now how she could end up making those mistakes. To love a man and raise the child that he created outside of your marriage with the one and only woman he ever truly loved had to be like being stabbed in the heart on a daily basis. Looking into the eyes of that child every day and seeing the eyes of the woman he truly loved. That was un-imaginable. Even Cassidy had sympathy for Sarah now after finding out that Savannah was her sister and her mother had slept with Jackson.
    “I have to give your mother credit , Shel. I would have stabbed, poisoned, shot, castrated and disemboweled your father long ago if I was your mother. No wonder she has always seemed afraid of Mother,” Cassidy had said the day they had discussed it.  Shelby laughed to