Forgotten Letters by Kirk Raeber

Author:Kirk Raeber
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love story, historical romance, fiction romance, historical love story
Publisher: Kirk Raeber

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The next day, Makiko brought a sewing kit and swatches of khaki-colored material to mend his uniform. After she left, Robert removed his overalls and repaired the holes and rips. As he worked the needle and thread, thoughts about Makiko tumbled in his brain.

Why was he foolish enough to think that now, during this terrible war, as a fugitive among vicious enemies, his reunion with Makiko would be like gold at the end of the rainbow? Was God toying with them? Give them what they want, but only during the worst of circumstances. Perhaps, like the fable about the genie, Robert should have been more careful about what he wished for.

He was well aware of what would happen to him as a captured airman. Torture. Starvation. Execution. Japanese officers were especially fond of beheading prisoners with their samurai swords, and for one to lop the head off an American would give him bragging rights.

His mind veered into the macabre. If he was captured, would the soldiers force Makiko to watch as they chopped off his head? Through his mind’s eye, he saw the moment in all its gruesome detail. Her tearful face stretched in cries of mercy and pity. Or would she watch, stoic and hard? He would kneel, head bowed, neck arched to receive the blow. It would be a quick death, for Japanese officers prided themselves on their swordsmanship and the keenness of their blades.

Robert would feel the quick burn as his head was sliced free, then the world would tumble around him, and his head would land on the dirt, in the pool of his warm blood, and perhaps, most cruelly of all, stare at Makiko as his vision dimmed and he slipped into blackness.

His imagination got the better of him, and Robert began to sob.

As a Christian, he believed in the Bible and the Almighty, but now he had his doubts. For civilians, death was a haphazard yet inevitable fate. Everyone died, but usually old and at the tail end of life. In this war, people were butchered deliberately, wholesale. He thought back to the time when Yumi admonished him about stepping on a spider. Who scolded God about stepping on us mortals?

If God was the Wise and Merciful Creator, how could He, their Father, let this happen? Robert kept repeating the verse from Matthew 27:46. My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?

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