Not Alone on the Voyage by Anne-Marie Jennings

Author:Anne-Marie Jennings [Jennings, Anne-Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781491799536
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2016-08-15T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

If Sandy had found herself in a similar-looking house back home, she would have had a great deal of sympathy for such a nice couple barely scraping by from pay cheque to pay cheque.

The small house probably wasn’t much bigger than the cottage Sandy’s grandparents owned on the lake, and there were many fancy items that would not be found in any house near Sandy’s home down south, but it seemed strangely appropriate in this paradise by the ocean.

Did she really just think that? Sandy had only been in Holman one week, yet the reality was this community had already left its mark on her spirit. While her heart was still heavy with grief, her time here had been more therapeutic than Sandy could have hoped for while moping around the house she shared with Jack. She’d made the odd call to her friends to keep them from thinking she’d lost her mind and run off, never to return again. While her friends were still concerned, they were relieved to hear the peace return to Sandy’s voice.

“I guess you can’t even pretend you’ll be coming back to your old life, can you?” said Alison during a late-night telephone call (Sandy had forgotten she was in a different time zone).

“Not at all. When I leave here, I’ll be going back to a life without Jack. Before I can find the strength to do that, I have to find out what it was here that gave Jack the strength to be the man I loved and adored from the first time I met him.”

“Well, if anyone can find that out, it’s you, San.”

“Thanks. Listen, I’ll call you next week sometime and update you on what I’ve found out here.”

“You know you can call me whenever you need to, don’t you?”

Sandy nodded, the tears beginning to fall from her eyes. “I was counting on that, Allie. I was counting on that.”

She hung up the phone before she completely broke down. Had she said goodbye? Sandy didn’t even know, but she knew that if she’d forgotten, that was yet another habit she had subconsciously picked up in Holman. Every telephone conversation she had heard never ended with a kind goodbye, but with silence.

Time didn’t matter all that much around here. Most people didn’t even bother wearing a watch, and local events got underway when everyone had shown up and things were in place. For Sandy, not wearing a watch was unsettling at first, but she soon learned to enjoy the relative freedom that not living by the clock allowed her.

Sandy had settled in well the day-to-day events of life in Holman, and she had felt as if she was slowly becoming a part of the family. Every night there were more stories being passed along to her.

She still missed Jack. Although Sandy knew that getting away from her world and the home she shared with Jack was more than necessary for her to continue moving on, she could still feel his presence with her.

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