You're Gonna Love Me by Robin Lee Hatcher

Author:Robin Lee Hatcher
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2017-10-13T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Heart hammering, Nick pulled his pickup over to the side of the road. Think, he told himself. Just take a breath and think.

After taking that recommended deep breath, he let his gaze roam the farmland on both sides of the country highway. Nothing looked familiar. Where had he been headed? A job. He knew that much. He’d driven into Caldwell on this Monday morning to get some documents from the office, but after leaving there, things had grown fuzzy. The longer he’d driven, the more lost he’d felt.

Early in his recovery, he’d become lost frequently. Panic had overwhelmed him when that happened. But he hadn’t gotten lost since moving to Idaho. Despite doctors’ warnings to the contrary, he’d begun to believe those episodes were a thing of the past. That he’d been cured of them. Apparently he was wrong and the doctors were right.

He took another deep breath and closed his eyes. “God, I don’t know where I am, and I don’t remember where I was going. Help me. Please.”

With the brief prayer lingering in the air, the panic left him, replaced by a quiet that seemed to enfold him like a warm blanket on a chilly night. It would be okay, he told himself. It would be okay. He could figure this out. He wasn’t in the wilderness. He was in the midst of farmland. Even if he couldn’t remember his destination, he wasn’t alone. He could ask someone for help, if worst came to worst.

He opened his eyes and looked around a second time. That barn up ahead on the left. He’d driven past it before. He was sure of it. Not today but recently. Yesterday? Last week? He couldn’t be sure of when, but he recognized it. He wasn’t lost. Merely confused. Another deep breath, and he felt brave enough to continue driving west.

“Keep your eyes open. You’ll remember where you were headed. You aren’t lost. Just forgetful. Keep looking.”

He pulled back onto the roadway, waiting, watching. When he came to a fork, he followed it to the right for no reason that he understood—until row upon row of grapevines came into view. And just like that, he knew the vineyard had been his destination all along. The fog lifted from his brain. He released a sigh of relief. Before long, Nick had joined his crew and was giving them new instructions for their installation.

But that evening, when he sat down at the table in his kitchen to eat dinner, his thoughts returned to that morning’s episode. It was a stark reminder of how his accident had changed him from the man he used to be. Would he ever be one hundred percent reliable? For himself? For anybody else?

The last silent question caused his imagination to go one step further. What if he was one day responsible for someone else? A little girl, perhaps. A little girl with green eyes and pretty red hair. What if he was supposed to pick that little girl up from

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