The Wedding Journey by Cheryl St.John

Author:Cheryl St.John
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2012-10-04T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

The following day they treated several patients for stomach complaints. “As many times as I tell people not to buy food from the islanders, they eat it anyway.”

Flynn mixed peppermint oil with water and dosed it out most of the morning.

During a lull in the stream of patients, he said to Maeve, “I’d like to apologize for Kathleen’s comments last night.”

“It’s not your place,” she said.

“All the same, you and your sisters are gracious. Kathleen’s barbs are uncalled for.”

“She does have a tongue that would clip a hedge,” Maeve replied. She should keep her questions and thoughts to herself. “Are you planning to marry again?”

He seemed surprised by her straightforward question. Would she never learn? After a moment he replied, “Why is everyone focused on getting me married?”

“Don’t you want to marry?”

It was obvious that he struggled to reply. “It’s the natural way of things, to marry, to make a home and a family,” he said finally.

She paused in rolling a strip of bandage torn from a worn sheet. “You didn’t really answer my question. You merely stated a fact, like the sky is blue or cows give milk.”

“Are you always this direct?”

“I guess so. My life hasn’t been given over to small talk, and skirting around issues doesn’t solve anything.”

“And you’re convinced I have problems to solve.”

“You’re avoiding your feelings. I’m praying for you,” she answered. “I know God has a plan for you. The Bible says it’s a plan for good and not for evil. He wants you to experience the fullness of life He offers. He’s given us so much.

“It’s hard to understand why things happen, why we lose our loved ones. There are a lot of things I can’t explain. But I do know God wants only the best for us. He loves us.”

He opened a palm in question. “How is it so easy for you to trust Him after all you’ve lived through?”

“Because He’s the One who saw me through those things and brought me out on the other side. He’s still bringing me through, with this move to a new land.”

At that moment Gavin McCorkle showed up bleeding from a cut above his eye. He’d been hit by a padlock a fisherman had used as a weight on his fishing net.

“You can’t barely see three feet before you,” he told Maeve as Flynn cleaned the gash. “The fog is downright eerie, ’tis. But the fish are crowding each other out to get into our nets.”

She hadn’t been on deck yet. “Is Mrs. Conley up there with her net?”

“Aye. Has the biggest haul of all, she does. The cap’n’s even helpin’ her haul ’em in. We’re near another island, but Cap’n Conley doesn’t want to risk the reefs with such poor visibility.”

“We took on plenty of fresh water already,” Flynn agreed.

Flynn put in one suture to hold the cut closed.

A tremendous peal of thunder startled the three of them, and Maeve dropped the scissors she’d been holding. Her heart beat at an excessive rate.

Gavin jumped down from the table.

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