Always, Abby by Linda S. Glaz

Author:Linda S. Glaz
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Judge Miller peered over a pair of reading glasses thick as ice on the lake. His brows, wiry and full, bobbed up and down as he squinted. Looking first at Will, then at the paperwork, then at Will again, he finally said, “Whatever possessed you to bring a boy back from Germany in the first place?”

Will cleared his throat. If he tried to speak now, with the emotion behind his words, he would sound like a rambling fool. The Nazis were mean to him. He saved my life. He’s adorable. He has my heart, for crying out loud. Would a Christian man do anything different? There were so many reasons he could give that should move the judge, but he wanted to use the right words. And though it sounded strange even to his own ears, he felt like a boy who’d found a hurt puppy and fallen immediately in love with it. Obviously not the most logical thing to say to a judge about a boy. So he was back at the start, unsure how to explain.

“I...uh. Well, he was alone, Your Honor. I couldn’t very well leave him in an orphanage run by Germans, the very ones who put him in Dachau in the first place. I just couldn’t.”

Judge Miller leveled a stare in Will’s direction. “Boy, all Germans didn’t put the little fella there. The Nazis did. There’s a huge difference.”

Knees about to give out, Will suddenly remembered that Judge Miller was Mrs. Schroeder’s brother...their parents had come from Germany. They were both born here. What had possessed him to say such a thing about the Germans. In his heart he knew all of them weren’t responsible for the atrocities of war.

“Sorry, Your Honor. I didn’t mean to imply—”

“Enough said.” The judge held up his palm and then rustled the papers in front of him, steering their conversation back to the matter at hand. Will knew Judge Miller to be a fair man, but he still wished he hadn’t spat the word German so harshly. God help my unforgiveness. Change my heart.

Will looked anywhere but at the judge, but figured the best thing was to jump right back in the game. “Your Honor. You know my family, the support they all will give me. Give us, because Hank and I are in this together. We haven’t been apart since he was released, and not because the men in my unit didn’t try. They couldn’t pry Hank’s hands off me. And I’ll be honest, I didn’t want them to. Something happened to me when that little boy grabbed hold of my leg. He gave me a reason for living after the war, a reason to make some good come out of the circumstances. To hope. Mother always taught us that good comes out of every situation if we allow it. And Hank is so much goodness rolled into one little bundle.”

“But this simply isn’t done, boy,” Judge Miller said. “Even if I wanted to, now that you aren’t planning to get married, I can’t even consider your proposal.

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