This Above All by Nicole Pyland

Author:Nicole Pyland [Pyland, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
ISBN: 9781949308150
Publisher: Pyland Publishing LLC
Published: 2019-07-10T22:00:00+00:00

Amara snuck into her father’s study for the second time that week. She’d left the book behind last time, but tonight, she planned on taking it with her. Her father was asleep and, likely, wouldn’t wake considering he took a sleeping pill nightly. Amara flipped on the light and made her way to the bookshelf. The Bible was just where she’d left it. She pulled it off the shelf and pushed the two adjacent books together to cover its absence. She hated lying to her father, and now she was stealing from him, too. She decided she’d find a way one day to make it up to him, but that she had to know more about this book and why it had been hidden from her all these years.

She made her way soundlessly down the stairs and out to the pool house. She locked the door behind her, moved into her bedroom, wondered for a moment why she even had a living room because she spent so little time in there, and laid on her bed over the comforter. She opened the brittle cover of the book and decided to take a more deliberate approach to trying to untangle the mystery. She moved page by page this time, skipping the ones that had no comments or papers stuck between. She wanted to move directly to Amara Sarai. It was her mother who had wanted to name her Amara; her father had told her as much. Maybe she’d always wanted to name a future daughter “Amara”. Maybe she’d been toying with middle names for her future child even when she was in high school.

That was how old the Bible was. It had been printed when her mother was fifteen, according to the information on the inside cover. Her mother had inscribed her own name as the book’s owner and written the year next to it. She’d been seventeen when she’d either bought it or received it. Amara tried to absorb the winding cursive of her mother’s young handwriting. There were wide loops and ornate dots above the letter I. Amara smiled in wonderment at her mother’s words on some of the pages. The woman had been a student of the Bible, it appeared. Some of her comments agreed with certain passages. Sometimes, she’d circled something or highlighted the text. Other times, she’d written merely a word or two with no other information or context like “yes” or “think about this.” Amara pulled out the first piece of inserted paper, which was actually a napkin that had been torn off and slid between the thin, fragile pages. The words on it weren’t written in the same handwriting. This handwriting was smaller; the loops were tighter; there weren’t near hearts above the letter I.

“I miss you,” Amara read out loud. “You’re here, and I miss you.”

What the hell? Amara turned the napkin over. There was nothing written there, but there was an imprint of someone’s lips in a light peach lipstick. Amara turned it back over and tried to interpret the words.

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