Heart Calleth by Freda Paula

Author:Freda, Paula
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, love, true love, clean romance, romance with a twist, clean, apocalyptic romance, deeply emotional, g for general patronage, science fiction adventure romance, second chance romance
Publisher: Paula Freda

Over the next ten years the waters receded, as the poles re-froze and the excess moisture and heavy clouds slowly dissipated. The earth resumed basking in the sun unimpeded by further solar disturbances. Cities sprang up and industries flourished along new coastlines that once had been mere neglected prophecies on Cable's "History Channel." It was often wondered whether mankind and his squabbles and humanity's misdemeanors and felonies, petty when held up against the true relationship of all earth's creatures, finally had galled the Creator into a second deluge despite His promise never again to wipe clean his creations. Or, perhaps, Nature had had enough of man's refusal to accept his oneness with all the other creatures that were a part of this earth, the universe, and the cosmos.

Whatever the answer, all of humanity for the first time at last appeared to have learned its lesson, and had rallied to hold together what was left after the devastation. Most of the once heatedly disputed borders were gone, swallowed up. Nature had settled the disputes her way. As for dire apocalyptic settings often portrayed in movies set in the future, they simply had not happened. Too many good people of all races remained to stop the sociopaths from gaining control. As all humanity concentrated all its efforts on rebuilding itself, the world regained a measure of its moral and technological progress, with one huge difference – the sentient beings on this earth at last began to mature emotionally.

Kevin's farm prospered, along with his family – his wife, Sandra, and their five children, two boys and three girls. "Almost heaven," Sandra repeated to her image in the mirror on her wedding day, on her wedding night, at the birth of her first son, and all the others that followed. Kevin remained attentive, kind, and understanding. He was faithful, and often professed his affection for her. He never actually used the word "love." He never mentioned Laura, or ever compared. But Sandra understood. She understood when she caught him on occasion pensively gazing at the stars. No one but her could read the sadness in that gaze, the longing, and Laura's memory.

"Almost heaven." It was enough. Until the day that she happened to glance out her kitchen window while humming a tune as she dried the dinner dishes. She went rigid; the plate slipped from her fingers and clattered to the floor. "Laura …!"

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