A Reason To Live: An Inspirational Romance (A Reason To Love Book 1) by T.K. Chapin

Author:T.K. Chapin [Chapin, T.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Branch Publishing
Published: 2018-06-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 23

KYLIE HAD FORGOTTEN TO FOLD the clean clothes in the dryer, so the next morning, she phoned Jonathan to make sure it was okay if she went back over to his house and let herself in. He was fine with it.

Once inside, she felt an eerie feeling settle over her. His house was quiet, each room full of only silence. There was no Rose, no Jonathan, and no television on. It carried a coldness she hadn’t felt before, and she couldn’t help but think of how things must’ve been before Rose had entered his life. He must’ve been lonely.

Hurrying to the laundry room, she pulled out the clothes from the dryer and took them into the living room to fold. After she was finished, she took the pile for Jonathan into his bedroom. As she walked in, she tried to keep her eyes straight ahead. It was his bedroom, after all. A private place. Setting the pile of shirts down on the bed, the pile toppled over, sending one over the edge of the bed and onto the floor. When she reached over to pick it up, she saw the corner of a notebook sticking out from underneath the mattress. What’s this?

Her heart pounded as an open forum of debate launched in her head. She succumbed to curiosity. There was no way of resisting the urge to know more about the man. After all, what she didn’t know was holding her back from pursuing anything with him. Carefully, and with a bad gut feeling, she lifted the mattress and pulled it out. She opened it.

Sketches, lots of them, filled each page. A furnace in a dark room, swirling blackness around it, splashes of red and orange colors bursting from the fire. An uneasy sensation filled her as she turned the page. A woman crying, the tears an aqua blue, shimmering with white reflections, the woman herself only a black and white stencil. Kylie wondered who it was, then turned the page again. A woman lying in a bed with a red and black plaid blanket draped over her. Questions etched in sharp black ink circled the woman on the bed in the sketch. Why’d this happen? How is this God’s will? When will the pain stop? When will the sorrow cease? Why, God? Kylie’s eyes warmed with hot tears and her legs weakened. She sat on the edge of the bed. She couldn’t bear anymore and shut the notebook. She knew more than ever that she shouldn’t have looked. That had to be his wife. She wiped the burning tears from her cheeks and put the notebook back where she had found it.

Leaving his bedroom, she closed the door quietly. Her heart ached in a new way for Jonathan. She knew previously that his wife had passed from cancer, but she didn’t know the details. Judging by the sketch, it was slowly. Kylie’s affection for Jonathan grew to a new depth. Her heart was breaking for him. She couldn’t

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