American Wife: A Memoir of Love, War, Faith, and Renewal by Taya Kyle & Jim DeFelice

Author:Taya Kyle & Jim DeFelice [Kyle, Taya]
Language: eng
Format: azw
ISBN: 9780062398109
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2015-05-04T04:00:00+00:00

I called my mom.

“Mom, I can’t talk, okay?” I said quickly.

“Okay,” she answered.

“Chris has been shot. I don’t know where he is. I want you to pray for him. Dad, too. I just need you to pray.”

“Oh my God. OK, honey, we will be praying.”

“I’ll call you when I know something.”

“Okay.”

I got off the phone. My cell phone began exploding with text messages and calls from people asking what was going on. I didn’t know what to answer, and so I didn’t.

Okay, he’s been shot, I thought. Probably in the stomach. Gut wounds are terrible, but he’ll make it. This sounds really bad, but it’s survivable.

I knew if he’d been shot in the hand or the leg, I’d have heard from him by now. So it had to be something a little more serious—but not too serious. I didn’t think, or didn’t allow myself to think, that it would be anything worse. I just couldn’t.

We can get through this, Chris. We’ve gotten through so much already.

People started coming into the house. Three men I didn’t know walked into my kitchen.

Who are you? Why are you here?

I found out later that they were pastors from local churches. I’m sure someone told me, but it didn’t register, maybe because that would have led to the inevitable conclusion that Chris was dead.

I floated along for a while in something like denial. Harsh reality pounded at the doors and every window, but I refused to acknowledge it.

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