Deep in the Heart by Staci Stallings

Author:Staci Stallings [Stallings, Staci]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B005LVVIIG
Publisher: Spirit Light Books
Published: 2011-09-07T05:00:00+00:00

Keith was on his way back to his room from getting a drink when he noticed that the kids’ door wasn’t shut. That was odd. His first thought was Peter. Maybe he had already gotten scared and had gone to find someone to make it better. However, with a glance, he realized that Maggie’s door was shut tight. Something wasn’t right, but he decided to check it out before he bothered her.

With the lightest touch on the kids’ door, it opened, and there in the pale light of the window stood Maggie. The waves of hair, the curves—there was no one else it could be. His heart snagged on the sight. There was something so intimate about it, as if she knew no one knew she was there. For a moment he thought about leaving before she knew he was there, but then he heard the soft sniff of overwhelming ache, and concern traced through him. Wanting not to scare her but to help just the same, he stepped into the room and over to where she stood. “Maggie?”

She turned to him, and the anguish in her eyes overtook his heart with the hard whack of a two-by-four across the chest. Her face contorted, and she closed her eyes, squeezing them to stop the pain, but it squeezed out tears instead. They rolled down her cheeks on the paths others had already made.

“Maggie, what’s wrong?”

She didn’t answer. The words seemed to jam without ever making it to the air.

It was all he could think to do. “Hey. Shh. Come here.” He pulled her into his arms and vowed to hold her there until all the tears were vanquished.

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