This Beating Heart by Brianna Campbell

Author:Brianna Campbell [Campbell, Brianna Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781959562122
Publisher: Brianna Lynn Campbell

Constance rubbed her forehead and slammed her mug down on the table. “God, I told her You’d come through! But no one has room for an abandoned pregnant teenager it seems. What am I supposed to say to her? She’s already heard too many times that no one wants or cares about her, and more than one heart will be broken and lost if You do nothing. What am I supposed to do?”

The kitchen door creaked open, and Constance looked up. Her husband tossed his briefcase on the counter. “Oh, you’re home early.”

He gave a weary smile. “Yeah. Finished all my paperwork early.” He pulled up a chair next to her. “And what else can I say? I missed you.” He held out some flowers.

Constance blushed. “Thank you.”

He took her hand and squeezed it, then stood back up, placing the flowers next to Constance’s mug and walked to the counter to make himself his own cup of tea.

Constance watched him and sighed. He glanced back at her. “Is something wrong?”

Constance nodded her head. “You remember how I told you about that girl I met…”

“Mhm, you’re trying to find her a place to stay right?”

Constance nodded, but Ranaan had turned back to pouring his cup. She turned to gaze at her own. There was no more steam coming from it.

Ranaan placed a hand on her shoulder; she stiffened and looked up at him. He raised an eyebrow and put his cup down. “It’s really bothering you.”

“I couldn’t find anyone.”

Ranaan sat down and without hesitance said, “We can make room.”

Constance's heart lurched into a race. “What?”

Ranaan’s expression became slightly nervous. “We could…take her in.”

Constance as she looked at the kitchen around her. A near-replica of their old home burned in the fire—with some minor adjustments. They’d made the living room larger and changed the room once meant for a child into an office. “But we don’t…can we afford that?”

Ranaan twisted his ring. “If a life hangs in the balance, how could we not?”

“It would be a lot…she’s a teenager. She’s pregnant. Who knows what all has happened in her past?”

Ranaan raised an eyebrow, and Constance fell silent. Tears were in her eyes as he took her hands. “No one said it would be easy. Raising a child wouldn’t have been easy. Losing them wasn't either. Working to keep our marriage intact wasn’t easy. Not everything we go through is easy. Do you think it will be easy for her to make this choice? But God gave us choices. After the miscarriages and Vivia’s death, you were faced with the choice to trust God. After my mistakes, you were faced with another choice, and you chose the hard one. I was a stupid, selfish fool who didn’t deserve your love, and I can’t imagine how hard it was for you, but now we are here…and He’s asking us to do something hard together. And there’s no one I’d rather do it with than you.”

Constance blinked rapidly, trying to keep the tears from escaping, but they did.

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