Yesterday Lost by Lorena McCourtney

Author:Lorena McCourtney [McCourtney, Lorena]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rogue Ridge Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Katy attended Sunday services in the chapel and stayed for the tomato-rich spaghetti dinner. Afterward, as Jace was driving her home, he casually asked if she had a Bible.

“I’ve never seen one around.” Although she’d never looked.

“I’ll bring you one. You might browse in Isaiah 49, or the thirteenth chapter of Hebrews. And the psalms are always wonderful.”

“You can bring it, but I’m not going to read it.”

He gave her a sideways glance. “Apparently you’ve read the Bible sometime, or you wouldn’t know what you do about what’s in it.”

She couldn’t argue with the fact that she did seem to have some unexplainable biblical knowledge. “Knowledge isn’t belief,” she stated flatly.

“God is working on you,” he said with an annoyingly serene assurance.

The next day, when he arrived to take her back to the river with the boys, he had a Bible for her. She tossed it into the living room, not watching to see where it landed. Jace exaggerated a cringe at her irreverent handling of his gift, but all he said was a cheerful, “God’s Word has endured much worse and survived.”

It was a fun afternoon, the hottest day yet. The boys splashed and paddled with noisy exuberance, sometimes deliberately dumping themselves out of a kayak and into the water, and they joined together to toss Mac into the river to celebrate his birthday. With the cast enclosing her leg like an itchy trap and perspiration plastering her T-shirt to her back, Katy worked up sufficient courage to sit at the edge of the calm section of the river and cool one foot in the chilly water. The savage, churning white water on the far side of the river still distressed her, but she was okay if she kept her gaze close to her own feet.

Later in the week Jace reported that he’d acted on her suggestion and contacted a computer company about a direct donation of computers, and they sounded receptive to the idea. He said he might make a trip to Texas later to pitch the idea in person. He also thanked Katy for the idea.

On Saturday, when Mrs. L. returned from Wilding with the mail, she handed Katy a letter with a New York postmark and unfamiliar handwriting. Katy opened it with the buzz of excitement always aroused by the possibility of some revelation that might jolt her memory out of hiding. Inside was a scrawled note reading. “We’ve never received reimbursement for the charges when we shipped all your stuff. $169.25. Please!!!” followed by the signature Stephanie swirling with look-at-me loops.

Katy showed the curt note to Mrs. L. “Is this one of my roommates?”

Mrs. L. slapped her own cheek with a stricken expression. “Oh, my! I must not have sent them the money to pay for shipping your things out here. How could I have been so forgetful? I guess I just had so much on my mind.”

“It’s no big deal,” Katy assured her. “I’ll do it right away. In fact, I’ll call her right now and tell her the money is on its way.

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