"Love in the Great Pine Woods" by Gratiana Lovelace (2015-2016) (Completed)

Ch. 32 (PG-13, D): Making Amends

 "Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 32 (PG-13, D): Making Amends, April 11, 2016 by Gratiana Lovelace (Post #898)

(An original story copyrighted by Gratiana Lovelace; all rights reserved) [(1) story cover, left]

[From time to time, I will illustrate my story characters with: Richard Armitage as Sam Wakeforest, Marcia Gay Harden as Sam's older sister Tessa Wakeforest Shoop Delaney, and Emily Deschanel as Tessa's sister-in-law Olivia Delaney Wakeforest, Viola Davis as Pauletta Perkins, Cicely Tyson as Nellie Newton, Anna Sophia Robb as Alice Trent, Kevin Spacey as Roger Delaney, Sam Heughan as Todd Wakeforest, Idris Elba as Dominic Perkins, the late Polly Holliday as the Waitress Madge, Donald Sutherland as Aldus Warren, Teri Polo as Lillian Warren, and Ewan McGregor as David Warren, and others as noted.]

Author's Content Note: "Love in the Great Pine Woods" is a mature love story with dramatic themes of love and relationships. It will mostly be at the PG and PG-13 movie levels. Specific chapters or passages may have a further rating of: L for language, D for dramatic emotions, and S for sensual themes. And I will rate the chapters accordingly. If you are unable or unwilling to attend a movie with the ratings that I provide for a chapter, then please do not read that chapter. This is my disclaimer. And as is my habit, I will summarize the previous chapter's events at the beginning of the next chapter.

Author's Recap from the Previous Chapter: Sam and Olivia Wakeforest had come upon the elderly Aldus Warren with the beginnings of a heart attack in the parking lot of Mr. Warren's furniture store in the one hour away town of Valley View. Sam being the Wakeforest Park Ranger, means that he is also a trained rescue medic and he recognized the heart attack symptoms instantly. Sam and Olivia had intended to look a baby cribs with the assurance that Lillian/Lola Campbell Warren was not in the furniture store on that Saturday, May 7th, 1956. However Sam and Olivia insisting that they take Mr. Warren to the nearby Valley View Hospital due to his serious heart attack symptoms—along with his wife Sylvia, and their baby grandson Duster Warren—meant that they did awkwardly run into the reticent to see Sam, Lillian, and her fuming husband David Warren when they arrived at the Emergency Room to see how the elder Mr. Warren was faring.

Sam and Olivia Wakeforest then leave Valley View hospital and the Warren family to head home. Olivia feels surprisingly sanguine about being able to be in the presence of her husband's former lover Lillian/Lola and her not feeling upset about it. Yet Olivia has a nagging feeling that for Lillian, Sam is still unfinished business—but not in a romantic way. And despite David Warren's edict of Sam keeping away from his wife Lillian, maybe Sam will have to attempt his apology to Lillian Campbell Warren in person, if she is to move forward.

Love in the Great Pine Woods", Ch. 32 (PG-13, D): Making Amends

The drive home to Wakeforest on Saturday, May 7th, 1956 has been a mostly silent one for Sam and Olivia Wakeforest. The strain of the past hour has caught up with nearly four and a half months pregnant Olivia and she is napping in the front seat next to her husband Sam. And with Sam driving, he concentrates on the road. But Sam also ruminates about Lillian/Lola Campbell Warren—his former lover whom they had run into at the hospital taking her father-in-law there during his heart attack. Lillian/Lola still looks lovely—not that Sam is still romantically interested in her. Sam is completely besotted with his wife, Olivia. Yet Sam noticed Lillian's unwillingness to look at him as she clutched her baby to her chest and sat down in the Emergency Room Waiting Room. In that moment, Sam realized how he had parted abruptly from Lola/Lillian must have hurt her—and it still did.