A Pursued Heart by Elaine Manders

A Pursued Heart by Elaine Manders

Author:Elaine Manders
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2020-04-30T04:00:00+00:00


Chapter 10

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing. -James 1:2-4

I thought the love of a woman would be a long time coming after Kelly, but here I am growing impatient. -Ben Lucas

It probably wasn’t the best idea to wait until the last day to take Jamie to the carnival. The venues and rides were crowded. Ben and Rebecca held Jamie’s hands walking fast from the food concessions. Not that they feared losing him—just to keep up with him.

They took a right into the kiddy rides area. “Aw, I’m too old for the baby rides,” Jamie pouted.

Rebecca pulled him in line. “If you go on the flying elephants with me, I’ll go on one of the big rides with you.”

Ben tore off the required tickets and handed them to Rebecca. She smiled. “You’re not going with us?”

“I don’t think I’d fit, but have fun.”

Ben watched Jamie cling to Rebecca. In spite of his protests, he had a lot of baby still in him. It had been a rough year for him. Jamie had trouble opening up to people, and Ben was surprised his son had connected so quickly with Rebecca.

When he’d first met her, he’d seen the epitome of the high-class career woman. No way would he have imagined she’d take up time with a child and apparently enjoy it. There was more to Rebecca than met the eye. Yet there was a lot for the eye as well. With her honey-tipped dark hair flying in the wind and wide grin revealing perfect teeth, she brought a new feeling to Ben. An attraction he’d not thought possible.

It bothered him his image of Kelly was fading.

“Hello, Ben.”

He turned to find Cindy Wasselman holding the hand of a toddler. “Hello, Cindy. Is this little princess yours?” He knew Cindy had two young children but had never paid much attention at church. He did recall seeing the strawberry blonde, cherubic-looking girl in the nursery.

“This is Betsy. Her brother, Robbie, is standing in line for the bumper cars. They scare Betsy. I suppose you’re here with Jamie?”

“I am.” Ben pointed. “That’s him in the yellow elephant, you might recognize the lady with him.”

“Rebecca Atkins.” The scowl on Cindy’s face said a lot. She smiled quickly. “She’s done a lot for the Sunday School class. I guess it takes an ambitious woman to get things done.”

“She is that, all right.”

“My mother lives in her apartment building. She had to spend the day at my place since Rebecca had the whole building fumigated. All over finding a spider. Can you imagine?”

“It was numerous spiders and venomous ones, at that. You should be glad they didn’t get in your mother’s apartment.”

Cindy shrugged. “I didn’t know you and Rebecca were dating.”

“We’ve only been out a couple of times.” On official dates anyway.

This seemed to please Cindy. “I shouldn’t say anything, but you should be careful.



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