Butterfly by Sharon Sala

Author:Sharon Sala [Sala, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General
ISBN: 9781587243172
Google: wAU2ymuEhPkC
Amazon: 1551666162
Publisher: Mira
Published: 2000-11-01T23:00:00+00:00

"Sister Simmons, are you ready?"

She turned. Her producer was watching her. Even he was treating her differently. The rage that had been bubbling within her began to boil over. She'd come too far from the backwoods of Mississippi to be stopped now.

"Yes, I'm ready," she said, and strode onto the stage, her pale-blue gown floating about her ankles like clouds too low to the ground.

The murmuring crowd was suddenly silent as Ariel thrust her hands upward, as if beseeching God to hear.

"I am being tested!" she cried, and before anyone could react, she doubled up her fists and shook them toward the crowd. "Satan is trying to silence the Word. He's poisoned the minds of the law and the media and all of you who doubt me now. He's putting evil in my path at every turn, but hear me now!" Her voice rose to a scream. "I will not be overcome! God is my sword. He is my shield. I am an innocent lamb, but I will not be slaughtered in Satan's name."

Then she fell to her knees, her long blond hair falling over her shoulders and onto the stage as she prostrated herself before the crowd.

They came to their feet as one, crying and shouting. The people began wailing and praying aloud, shamed that they'd believed, even for a minute, that this delicate angel of God could be guilty of even one measure of the gossip being spread.

Ariel lay immobile, her face hidden beneath her arms. When she felt the floor shaking from the thousands of stomping feet and heard the wailing of the crowd, she smiled.

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