Grace for a Drifter by Marisa Masterson

Grace for a Drifter by Marisa Masterson

Author:Marisa Masterson [Masterson, Marisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-09-06T05:00:00+00:00


Typically happy, Liza loudly complained. “I don’t want to be on this train.” She crossed her arms and glared. Previously excited when he’d boarded the train, Robbie too crossed his arms and imitated her expression while Bethany looked on with a worried frown.

Errol couldn’t blame them. Liza had endured a long trip just two days before and loved to run free. He knew he asked a lot of her by traveling again.

“Honey, we have to take this trip. I am glad you’re such a big girl so you can help with Robbie during the long ride.”

At the mention of his name, the boy looked at his father and then tried to hide behind Liza, burrowing his face into the seat. The frowning girl vanished as Liza giggled and turned in the seat to look at him. “I have books. Wanna see one?”

Robbie nodded but otherwise was still and quiet. He hadn’t said anything yet, yet he could laugh and cry so Errol felt sure the boy could speak. Something had spooked his son badly enough to render him mute. It made him wonder what Robbie had witnessed.

Pulling out her Mother Goose book, Liza held it so Robbie could see too. Errol grinned at the sight they made as Robbie ducked under Liza’s arm and squeezed between his sister and the book to view it better. Many times, as he’d read to Liza, she’d do the same thing. Watching, he was thrilled and relieved at how easily she’d welcomed Bethany and Robbie into their family.

Wanting to share the moment with his wife, he gazed her way but saw only the back of her head as she stared out the window at the blur of colors as the train flew down the tracks. A hand on her arm didn’t gain her attention. He felt a bit rejected until he noticed her discreetly wipe at tears on her cheeks.

Tears again. The night before they’d grieved in the privacy created by the darkness. He’d shared what it had been like to return for her after burying Sandra. She’d told him about being confronted with his father’s evidence and then told of Robbie’s birth while knowing she couldn’t provide him a home.

“A part of me waited for you to appear and insist that everything he told me was a lie,” she’d admitted with a trembling voice. “Now I understand why you didn’t come for me, or rather, why you came but I never knew it.” Her voice had strengthened with those last words and he believed she discarded, at that moment, any remaining doubts about him.

Since she wanted to become familiar with him again, he’d insisted that they share the bed. He’d held her during the night, not sleeping even while she seemed to melt against him into a deep slumber. He lay awake and prayed for wisdom as well as for the Lord to give him the strength to master the anger toward his father.

Now, as they sped along toward a meeting with that man, Errol pushed his anger down.



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