The Baker's Wife by Erin Healy

Author:Erin Healy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: ebook, book
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2011-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 19

Divine connection. This was the term Audrey had given to the strange experiences that sometimes threw her (and her bread) onto the painful paths other people had to walk.

The last time it happened, she was removing a pan of water she’d placed in the oven to create steam. Her elbow struck the counter and the pan sloshed its contents down the front of her thighs, creating instant blisters that stuck to her jeans when she undressed. Her bread that day had gone to the family of Cody Ryan, a firefighter whose legs had been pinned under a collapsed burning wall. His wife sat with him at the hospital while Audrey sat with the couple’s five anxious children for three days, feeding them and reassuring them and helping them with homework.

She let the youngest ones sit on her lap, the pain of that pressure on her burns reminding her not to take their own pain for granted. No one but Geoff, she believed, would understand her willingness to do this and agree with her that it was important, not unhealthy or somehow twisted.

In every situation the identity of the person Audrey needed to reach out to became clear within an hour or two. This was the main reason why Audrey didn’t think, even after Geoff suggested it, that her fiery fever and the stabbing pains in her belly had anything to do with someone else.

She feared an infection from the cuts on her wrist, some disease carried into her by Julie’s blood. The possibility filled her night with red nightmares.

Diane woke her at six thirty Tuesday morning. She slammed the front door of the house and came in yelling Audrey’s name. At the startling sounds of invasion Audrey jerked up in bed, then braced herself on her elbow.

“Audrey!” The bedroom door hit the wall and bounced off the stopper as Diane came through it, shouting as if Audrey were on the other side of the ocean.

“Audrey! Get up. Get dressed.” Diane started yanking open Geoff’s dresser drawers. “Where are your clothes?”

In her drawers, but Audrey was still dressed from yesterday’s journey into the mountains. “What are you doing in my house?”

Diane jerked around with one of Geoff’s sweatshirts in her fist. She saw Audrey needed only her shoes, dropped the sweatshirt, and leaned forward to grip Audrey’s good wrist. She pulled, and her weighty strength lifted Audrey out of bed, straining at the armpit.

“Jack is holding a gun to your husband’s head. He wants us to find Juliet.”

Audrey’s head was an overinflated balloon. She heard find Juliet. She squinted and exhaled hard, as if that might let off some of the pressure. “Who’s Juliet?”

“Julie. Jack’s wife.”

Which was when Audrey finally heard the words gun and your husband.

“We have six hours.”

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