A Place Called Destiny by Emma Easter

Author:Emma Easter [Easter, Emma]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781647347024
Publisher: CKN Christian Publishing
Published: 2020-06-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

Mike Cadwell ran his fingers over his hair again and again as he paced his living room floor. He looked down at his first wife, Olivia, who was sitting on the sofa with Emily in her arms and asked for the hundredth time, “You’re telling me you don’t know where Rachel went? Did she just disappear into thin air?”

Olivia looked up at him, her eyes pleading. “Please sit down, Mike. Rachel is an adult. I am sure she is fine.”

Mike glared at her. “She’s been gone for almost two days now. I wouldn’t be so worried if she hadn’t left Emily. How could she have just upped and left?” He snapped his fingers. “Just like that?” He would have gone to the police if he didn’t loathe them so. His brief experience with them in Fallow Creek had showed they only brought trouble.

“Have you asked around town to see if anyone has seen her?” Olivia asked.

Mike narrowed his eyes in anger and glowered at her. “Really, Olivia? I have been gone the whole morning asking people in this town if they have seen her, and yet you are asking me if I have been asking for her around town?”

Olivia didn’t say anything for a short while as she burped Emily. After that, she said, “I think the fact that Rachel did not take Emily with her means that she’s okay and will definitely come back. There’s no way she would leave permanently without her daughter. She loves Emily way too much.”

Mike stepped away from Olivia and went to look out the window, as if the action would cause Rachel to appear outside. If Olivia was right, Rachel had run away again. But at least he knew she would have to come back because of Emily. Still, he couldn’t bear the thought of her being somewhere other than here at his house where she belonged.

He turned around and went to the mantel near the TV set. Grabbing the keys to his BMW, he turned around and said to Olivia, “I am going to look for her again.”

Olivia sighed but said nothing. Mike strode out the front door, got into his car, and drove out into the road.

As he slowly drove through Destiny, he looked this way and that, hoping to see Rachel. It was a small town and it would surely not be impossible to find her on the street. Unfortunately, because they were new to town, many people did not know him or Rachel yet. He described her in detail to some of the people he stopped to talk to, but none of them had seen her.

He drove past a row of houses, some of them partially destroyed and some still standing proudly, having defied the hurricane’s wrath. He narrowed his eyes as he saw someone familiar and his heart began to pound. Rachel had just come out of one of the houses, followed closely by that Pastor Keith. He had seen them together in some old Honda a few days ago and now here they were exiting a house together.

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