A Thousand Blessings - Book One (Blessings Series 1) by Lisa Heaton

Author:Lisa Heaton [Heaton, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Faith Forward Press
Published: 2017-08-24T16:00:00+00:00

The way he made love to her that night was unlike any night before. His whispers stole her heart as countless times he told her, “I am lost in you. I am so lost in you.” Even beyond those words his every touch and every tender word confirmed his deepening affection for her. For the first time since knowing him, she felt safe to love.

When he finally came to rest beside her, she turned to face him. “Stay with me until the morning. I want to see your barely tolerable face when I wake.”

He smiled and caressed her shoulder. “I will be here to see your beautiful face, Isabel.”

***

Colin woke with a start and bolted upright, drenched in sweat and gasping for breath. Even wide awake, each time he blinked he saw the sight again, Melody’s and their child’s graves all grown up and covered in weeds. From the depths of the earth she had called to him, “Promise me,” her voice echoing still in his mind like a heartbeat and that familiar sense of darkness enveloping him.

He looked around, reminding himself it was only a dream. The sun was barely dawning, just enough to cast sufficient light that he could make out Isabel’s form there next to him.

His breathing was finally becoming steady, but his heart was burning within and he knew he had to escape before she woke. The words promise me drowned out even his own assurance to Isabel that he would be there when she awoke. Somehow, he would explain it later.

“You’re leaving already?” Isabel rolled over, blinking in sleepy confusion.

“I should go. I have something I must do.” He sat for a second more, the darkness suffocating him to the point that he was struggling again to breathe. “I can’t do this anymore.”

She sat up and drew her knees to her chin. “I should have never asked you to stay until morning.”

“No, all of this. I can’t keep doing this.”

“What are you saying?” When he didn’t answer or turn to face her, his meaning dawned on her. “You’re not coming back.” It wasn’t a question, rather an expression of her understanding.

“No. Now that your symptoms have begun, I think it’s best that I don’t.”

“Is that why you said those tender things last night, to soften the blow of what you would tell me this morning?”

“No, of course not. I’m not coming back because I meant those things. I am about to pass through a door I will never find my way out of. I can’t go to that place with you, Isabel.”

The look of devastation in her eyes prompted him to reach for her. “Please don’t be angry with me. I never intended…”

Isabel slapped Colin’s hand away and leaped from the bed. She paced back and forth until she eventually stopped right in front of him.

“Of course I’m angry. How did you think I would react to this?” she shouted. “After your jealousy last night and…” She began pacing again, shaking her head, whispering to herself what a fool she was.

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