Justifiable Means by Terri Blackstock

Author:Terri Blackstock
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Array
Publisher: Zondervan

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE

The pain raging inside Larry was inescapable and constant. His habitual instinct to turn to God for help, for peace, seemed foreign to him now. He was angry, and there was nowhere to turn.

The bell warning that his gas tank was dangerously T low kept ringing until he finally pulled over into a small parking area along a beach. He didn’t know how long he’d been driving, but he figured he was somewhere in St. Petersburg. The beach was bare, for the day was overcast, just as his heart seemed to be. He left his car and walked across the sand, staring furiously out at the clouds billowing over the farthest reaches of the Gulf.

She won’t survive jail, his mind railed. She’ll never make it. She doesn’t know what she’s doing.

He reached a long pier that stretched over the water and started walking toward the seagulls perched on the railing at the end.

It’s too much—she’ll be punished, and he’ll go free.

He walked faster, his sneakers making little sound on the wooden planks. The cool wind whipped harshly through his hair and flapped at his jacket. Overhead, he heard the rustle of wings as a flock of egrets settled on the railing behind him.

He reached the end of the pier, scattering the seagulls, and looked across the water to the clouds beyond. It was majestic, beautiful, but it looked like anger coming home to settle on the water.

God’s anger.

Larry’s anger.

He began to weep, hard and loud, his anguish catching on the wind and flying off to some unknown place where it wouldn’t be heeded. “Why?” he shouted. “Why?”

But there was no answer, just the loud drumming of the waves against the shore, and the ruthless caw of the seagulls soaring overhead.

He ran back down the pier, across the sand, and back to the car. He slammed the door and collapsed against the wheel, his head resting on his arms.

Forsaken. That was the word. He had been forsaken. His refuge was gone, and his peace had been shattered. He was alone, by his own choice.

Gritting his teeth against the rage that it had come to this, he started the car and pulled out into traffic, pushing his car to the speed limit and beyond.

But it would never be fast enough.

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