When Forever Fades by Andrea Boyd

Author:Andrea Boyd [Boyd, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Christian, Romance, Women, Religious
Google: _o4YEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08SKRDDH4
Publisher: Dreamer Publishing
Published: 2021-01-31T18:30:00+00:00

Sixteen

The smell of pork frying jerked Belva from her dreams. What were the twins into now? Surely they weren’t trying to cook breakfast. She brushed the hair from her face as her feet hit the floor, then she froze. This wasn’t her bedroom. Reality hit in a flash. She was at her in-laws’ house in Pelion.

She turned to look back at the rumpled bed.

And I spent the night in the arms of my husband.

Her mouth formed an automatic smile and she bit her lip. She’d been scared out of her wits and Gray had made it all disappear. He’d made her feel loved and cherished.

Hadn’t he done that in the past?

When they’d been together and a storm blew through at night, the most likely scenario would have Gray on the couch and the kids in bed with her. She thought back to the first time. He’d tried to console her and the kids—well, mainly her, since the twins had been too young at the time to know what was going on. She’d pushed him away. Told him he didn’t understand or care about how she felt. She hadn’t even given him a chance.

Another thought crowded in. One she would love to ignore. Maybe it was her fault the kids were so afraid of storms to begin with. When had she gotten like this? Belva searched back through her childhood memories.

A hurricane had skimmed the Eastern coast one year when she was about eight years old. They always sent tropical storms inland but that one was really bad. It had taken down trees at the farm. The barn’s tin roof had peeled back like an open can of sardines.

She’d had the responsibility of bottle feeding a premature calf at the time. She and her siblings had been told repeatedly not to get too attached to the cows. They were not to be named, but she’d secretly done it anyway. Little Herbert had died during that storm.

A shudder went through her. She’d never wanted to pass her fears on to her children. Gray’s words from last night about God being in control came to her. That’s what she should have been teaching her kids. If she’d allowed her husband to lead the family like God intended, that’s what he would have taught them.

Lord, I can only ask forgiveness for my past mistakes, and I do. Please help me fix what I’ve broken—with my husband and with my kids.

Belva continued to pray as she made the bed and got dressed. Tansy and Gray would want to get back to the hospital as soon as they could to check on Noah. And she would call and check on the kids, but the urgency to do so had been squelched. If anything bad had happened, she would’ve gotten a call.

Gray greeted her with a warm smile from where he sat at the kitchen table. “Good morning. Did you get enough sleep?”

She raised her eyebrows. “I’ll say. I can’t get over how hard I slept. I don’t think I’ve slept that deeply since the twins were born.

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