Crossing the Deep by Kelly Martin

Author:Kelly Martin [Martin, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781621350842
Publisher: Astraea Press
Published: 2012-10-08T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Asher watched her sad, pitiful attempt to get across the graveyard. With her ankle in the shape it was in and the deteriorating weather, he knew it would take forever to find her Bible.

“Leave it, Rachel!” he yelled. “You are better off without it. Trust me.”

If looks could kill, he’d be no better off than those people in the graves. “You do not get to tell me what to do.” She tripped but caught herself as the rain drenched her.

“I did you a favor,” he called after her, still trying to make her understand. If she thought she was going to get any kind of answers from a two-thousand-year-old book, then she was delusional. “It consumes you too much. It isn’t real, Rachel. The sooner you realize that the sooner…”

“The sooner what? The sooner I’ll be more like you? Sorry, but right now that doesn’t appeal to me.”

Her words bit. Part of him was sorry, truly sorry. He knew how much that little purple Bible meant to her, but hadn’t he owed her the truth? And if Rachel hated him, wouldn’t it be for the best when they got back to civilization? Win/win, right? “Come on, Rachel—”

“Why didn’t you get rid of your own Bible, Asher, if you hate them so much?” she yelled. She reached into the inside pocket of the coat she wore, pulled out Asher’s Bible, and held it up.

He had forgotten all about it. David had given it to him for reading material on the trip. Sid’s brother didn’t push, but he did give subtle hints on occasion.

No matter what, Asher had a point to make; a point that none of it mattered — not the Bible, or Christianity, or Jesus, or God. They were on their own, and God wasn’t there to help them.

“Fine.” He shrugged. He stomped to her, grabbed the little black book, and heaved it over the fence in the same direction he had thrown hers.

She glared at him coldly, and he knew that every good thought she had for him was gone.

Asher could hear her grunt with each step she took toward the gate. Still, he couldn’t give up. He’d started this, and he had every intention of finishing it. “Rachel, let it go! You’re just hurting yourself. Girl, it’s a stupid book full of crazy characters and outdated morals. It’s to make people feel guilty for acting human and to keep girls virgins until they marry. Let it go. Be free.”

She kept on walking. Her determination weakened his resolve a bit.

“Rachel, it can’t be that important!”

“My father gave it to me.”

“Then he can buy you another one.”

“He’s dead!” she screamed back at him.

Asher stared as she inched toward the gate, her words soaking in. He had known deep down there was some reason she had been so attached to that book, but it had never occurred to him that her father was the reason. And he had never even imagined that Rachel with her perfect little life and ideals didn’t have a father.

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