The Bridge to Cutter Gap by Catherine Marshall

Author:Catherine Marshall
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Gilead Publishing
Published: 2018-11-06T16:00:00+00:00

Back to the present.

Cold. The water was so cold. Instantly thoughts of the last two days swept away behind her, and Christy was left struggling to breathe. She opened her mouth, but there was only icy water where air should be. She felt it rush inside her, into her throat, into her lungs. She grabbed for the surface with all her being, but something kept pulling her down.

She was choking. She was dying, and all she wanted was air—one sweet, clean breath of air. The water in her lungs should have been cold, but it burned like she’d breathed in fire. She stroked with all her might against the current, frantically trying to propel herself toward the surface. Her hand broke through to air, and she groped for it as if she could breathe with her fingers, as if her fingers could suck in the precious oxygen she wanted so badly.

God, don’t let me die here, she prayed desperately. Not yet . . . there’s still so much I want to do, Lord.

She thought of her family, of their horror upon learning that their daughter had died this way, in a mountain creek far from home, far from love. She thought of the school where she’d wanted to change lives. She was doing something that would really make a difference. She had to make it.

The current sucked her down again, but this time she groped at the frigid water with renewed fury. Her hand broke through once more, and again she felt the air. But this time someone grabbed her hand.

As if in slow, slow motion, she was pulled from the icy grip of the current. At last, she could breathe.

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