Promise of Forever Love by Vanessa Miller

Author:Vanessa Miller [Miller, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781603742092
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2011-04-05T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter

Twenty

Yvonne hadn’t been bugged by a reporter since Thomas had left town with Jarrod a little over a week ago. With all the snoops leaving her alone for a change, she’d managed to have a productive week. She had called a congregational meeting at which she had dispelled the rumors about Thomas and her alleged affair, and it seemed that most everyone understood that they had been set up. Then, she had even driven to Flint and talked to Clarence Brown herself. But the visit had been rather uneventful. She hadn’t been able to get anything more out of the man than what Thomas had already told her.

What really bugged Yvonne about Clarence’s silence is that she had been prepared to pardon him if he had just asked. But Clarence wasn’t interested in a pardon. He held to the claim that he had done nothing wrong and had been arrested on fabricated charges. He’d even gone so far as to tell Yvonne that she should be ashamed of herself for running to the police and filing charges against him before she’d had a chance to hear his side of things.

“I wanted to hear your side, Clarence, but you skipped town and made it impossible for me to do anything else but believe that you were the one who stole the money,” Yvonne had explained.

Clarence hadn’t appeared fazed by what she’d had to say. He’d preferred to play the victim. “I had been at Christ-Life for more than twenty years, and I would have thought that since I served you and your husband faithfully and did whatever was asked of me, I would have been given the benefit of the doubt.”

Yvonne had wanted to remind Clarence that he had just attempted to have her thrown out of her own church but thought better of going tit for tat with the man. Again, it had been obvious that Clarence wasn’t seeking redemption right now, so she’d seen no reason to linger. Yvonne had left the prison and gone straight back to Detroit. There was so much to do, and she didn’t have a minute to waste.

Sunday’s service had been an awesome and humbling experience. Hundreds of former members had come back to church and bombarded the altar when she’d made the call for those who needed to receive salvation and rededicate their lives to the Lord to come forward. And the thing that had topped off her day was when she’d walked back to her office after the service to find her desk adorned with another vase filled with roses.

Thomas had called her every night since he’d left to talk about church business, the upcoming city council meeting, his travels with Jarrod, and the things that were going on with the girls. They hadn’t gotten personal beyond the surface level, though, and had not even mentioned the issue that had been between them since the night Yvonne had blown up at Thomas.

After they talked on Friday night, Yvonne put on her bathrobe

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