No Place like Home by Amy Clipston

Author:Amy Clipston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2018-09-14T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 6

White-hot fury boiled through Ian’s veins as he walked toward his house after stowing his horse and buggy in Harvey’s barn. His hand shook as he unlocked the back door and walked into the small, two-bedroom cottage where Harvey’s parents had resided until they passed away.

After hanging his hat on a peg by the back door and removing his shoes, he blew out an irritated sigh as Eva’s spiteful words echoed through his mind.

Or is it more accurate to say you want their land since you’ll never own your parents’ farm?

How could Eva, the woman who had been his dear friend and whom he’d once dreamed about dating and possibly marrying, accuse him of using her parents? He’d always considered her a sweet, kind, caring person, but she seemed more like a self-centered, cynical, pessimistic person now. Or should he call her misguided, given how grief had surely affected her?

But if Eva was so terrible, why did he still care about her?

Ian swallowed a groan as he entered his small kitchen. After filling a glass with water from the tap, he walked into the family room and sat down in his favorite wing chair. He looked out the front window toward the main house as Eva’s biting words swirled through his mind.

I didn’t feel welcome here.

He set his half-empty glass on the end table beside him and pushed his hands through his thick hair. How could Eva call her parents unwelcoming? Harvey and Mary had been nothing but kind and generous to him ever since he came to work on their farm. And Eva was wrong to believe they wouldn’t have been supportive and loving to her after Simeon died.

Ian rested his ankle on his opposite knee as he again recalled the months after Eva left. Mary and Harvey were never the same. Their smiles were less frequent and their zest for life had dulled.

If Eva truly believed her parents were unaffected by her departure, followed by her almost complete abandonment, then perhaps she never knew them as well as she believed she had.

As Ian picked up his glass, another thought hit him like a bale of hay falling from the loft in one of Harvey’s barns. Did Eva accuse her parents of not caring for her to dispel her own guilt over leaving?

Renewed fury filled him at the thought. Perhaps he should enlighten her and tell her how she tore her parents apart by walking away from them and never looking back for six long years. Not only had she crushed their souls, but she had the gall to accuse them of not caring about her or her grief when she lost her husband.

He stood and started for the front door, but then stopped. Marching over to give her a piece of his mind was not how the Lord would want him to spend his Sunday. Giving Eva space to mull over his words was better. He would talk to her after they’d both had time to calm down and think clearly.

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