Chosen Husband: On Highlander Time book 1

1: How It Happened

The day was hot and warm. The sun was heating up the pickup truck. The green leaves were changing from light to dark, as the season seemed to be overcome with color.

A young woman was driving east on Denison-Chattaroy road. Making her way from highway 395. Just a few miles south of Deer Park, Washington. She was heading home from Spokane Community College. Where she was a student, from her long day of schooling.

She had just turned into her driveway. Surrounded by pine and aspen trees. To her; it was full of life, during the last days of May. Lyra Luhr loved spring/summer months the most of all, over other seasons.

She drove to the right, where she parked her blue Ford Ranger. Lyra opened the truck door, grabbed her backpack and headed towards the house. As she was heading towards the house. A white single story house with dark blue trim, Lyra heard barking as she gotten closer.

"I'm coming, Fred" smiled Lyra.

The young woman put her backpack on the ground and made her way to the fenced in area. Where her family dog Fred was barking at her from. He was a mix breed of a Border collie and Rottweiler. Fred had the coloring of a Rottweiler but had the face and long hair of the Border collie. Even though he may be a big dog, he had an even larger heart, when he was around Lyra and her mother.

Lyra let Fred out; who ran around her a couple of times and then he ran towards the front door, where he wanted to be let in. She ran after her beloved dog, laughing. She grabbed her backpack and headed to the front door, where she unlocked it and went into the house.

She took her small wallet out of her back pocket. A cell phone from another pocket and turned it off, and place both of them in a cupboard as well as her keys.

The cupboard was next to the front door, next to the living room. Next to the living room was the kitchen.

Then down the hall was her mother's room. On the other side of the hallway was her room, then the bathroom between the two bedrooms.

All the walls were an off-white color. A marshmallow type of white. Along with paintings decorating the walls with a few family photos here and there.

Lyra found herself in a country kitchen where she had made herself a sandwich. A snack before dinner.

The kitchen had its modern-day refrigerator, microwave, coffee maker, toaster oven, and wooden cupboards. But what makes it a country kitchen was its wooden looking salad bowls. Her mother has used them to hold nails, notes, glasses, and other odds and ends.

Inside the cupboards are where her mother would have typed up notes of Bible verses. Things to remember to live by, important recipes like brownies that were the best. Her mother loved to cook. Along with notes, phone numbers of friends and family.

There were even notes upon the stove either for Lyra's mom or for her to do something at a certain times. Like bringing the meat out of the refrigerator. Meds for the animals that they need to have, or other things that were important to do.

Once Lyra had gotten her sandwich, she moved back into the living room and sat before the TV. Where she turn on to channel 7, which was PBS. Where she learned that Nova was showing something that she was learning in school. A fragment on the Missoula flood.

Earlier that day. She was learning in class about the end of the last ice age, Glacier Lake. How it had burst open and flooded parts of Montana, Idaho, and Eastern Washington. Making the Columbia River Gorge.

The show helped Lyra to see the magnitude of the flood with computer diagrams that they showed. It was much better than just hearing her teacher talking about it with some maps.