American Anthem by BJ Hoff

Author:BJ Hoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736932059
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

Renny Magee lay awake on her cot in the narrow loft, listening to the night sounds of the river and the rising wind. She could tell by the draft coming through the window that the air had turned sharply colder.

At first she thought the strange noise below was merely the wind keening through the pine trees at the side of the house. She burrowed deeper under the bed covers. But after a moment more, she heard the sound again and sat up, listening.

It wasn’t the wind. Someone was in the kitchen, directly below her.

Someone weeping.

She hesitated only a minute before flinging the covers aside and, shivering in the cold, tiptoed down the wooden steps from the loft in her stocking feet.

At the doorway to the kitchen, she stopped short. There was no light in the room, save for a candle flickering weakly on the shelf of the cupboard near the window. Still, she could see Vangie, sitting alone at the table, her head resting on her arms, her slender shoulders rising and falling as she wept.

Dread immobilized Renny as she stood watching. What terrible thing had happened? But then it struck her that Vangie would hardly be weeping alone at the kitchen table had some awful event occurred. In times of difficulty, members of the MacGovern family didn’t keep to themselves, but drew together.

The sight of the strong, kindhearted Vangie sorrowing in the lonely silence of the night pierced Renny’s heart like a darning needle. Yet she resisted the fierce desire to cross the room and offer comfort. Vangie would most likely not welcome an intrusion upon her solitude.

And so she backed away, hovering just outside the door where she wouldn’t be seen, half in fear of what had brought Vangie to such a state of despair, half in despondency at the awareness that it was not her place to approach this woman she loved as she might have loved her own mother…had she ever known what it was to have a mother.

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