Listening to Love by Beth Wiseman

Author:Beth Wiseman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2019-09-02T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Helen perched on the edge of her bed and wished she had more of the ibuprofen Cecelia had given her. Eli had brought over a buggy and driven her home from Moses’s house, but her trek across the field left a pulsing pain in her hip the rest of the afternoon and into the evening.

“So, the girl will be okay?” Isaac lifted himself to a sitting position and yawned.

Helen twisted to face him as she took off her kapp and began removing the pins in her hair. “Ya. The paramedics said she has a lot of bruising, a busted lip, and a sprained ankle. It’s nothing short of a miracle that she wasn’t hurt worse.” She began to run a brush through her hair. “But we have lost Lucas to the Englisch world.” Her voice cracked as she forced herself to say the words aloud.

Isaac groaned as he shook his head. “Ach, Helen, you can’t be sure of that.”

“Ya, I can.” She placed her brush back in the drawer and crawled beneath the covers. “You arrived not long after I did, and you saw the way they were together. I’m sure the child was in shock, but she stayed curled up in Lucas’s lap. She wouldn’t even have anything to do with her mother. Lucas told her over and over again how much he loved her, right in front of Cecelia and me. And that girl clung to him, trembling. I felt sorry for her, but I felt even more despair knowing Lucas will be stepping off the path Gott chose for him.”

Isaac was quiet for a while before he gently nudged her, and in the dim light from the lantern, she saw the corners of her husband’s mouth crinkle as he grinned. “Had you ever shot the tranquilizer gun before?”

Helen snuggled up against him until she found a position with the least amount of pressure on her hip. “Nee. But I’d seen you and the boys use it, and it was in the barn. I knew I could get there the fastest even though my hip slowed me down.” She laughed a little. “After I took the shot and the horse fell, I couldn’t move for a while. I just stood there in the field shaking all over, thinking how I could have hit Lucas, the girl, or her mother.” She paused. “If it had to be someone, I’d have chosen the mother, I think.”

Isaac chuckled. “She would have been sore and had a nasty headache when she woke up, but she would have been all right.”

“Cecelia demanded to ride in the ambulance with her daughter, but Natalie wanted Lucas to go instead. She pleaded with the paramedics to allow him to do so. Cecelia actually stomped her foot and yelled at Lucas to move, telling the paramedics that she was family.” Helen shook her head. “Lucas said, ‘I’m her family too,’ so firmly that Cecelia shut up, and the paramedics agreed to let him go because Natalie’s blood pressure was rising.

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