Love Somebody Like You: Trinity Lakes Romance Book Five by Miller, Carolyn

of his mom. He’d only been six at the time, when Ellie was just a baby, and his mom, his poor mom, had been abandoned by her husband. She had carried on for many years, being strong, running the ranch and her kids, somehow managing to save enough to send Mitchell off to hockey camps, but he still recalled hearing those words for the first time, when he’d seen his mother in a different light, and realized she wasn’t the superwoman they’d always assumed. “She’s a bit off,” Mrs. Ingalls had whispered at church. The words had sparked Jackson and his brothers in different ways. Dermott had tried to show his love by building an overly grand stone wall at the front entrance to the driveway. Mitchell refused to go to church, saying it was full of hypocrites, and was soon lost to the world of hockey, a scholarship leading him to live away in North Dakota in his mid-teens. Jackson had determined to live here and help his mom in any way possible. The fact that meant he got to stay on the ranch doing what he loved was a bonus. He’d do anything to relieve his mom of concern, so people like Mrs. Ingalls would never say she was “off” again. But even he wasn’t so stuck in denial that he hadn’t noticed the lost feeling that had shrouded his mom in those first few weeks had returned. She was keeping to her room again, not even bothering to show up for every meal. Lethargy seemed to have taken over her bones, making her seem smaller, skinnier than he remembered. Maybe his efforts to help her an