An Undeniable Secret by Jennifer Spredemann

Author:Jennifer Spredemann
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blessed Publishing

Chapter 19

Saloma rushed to her bedroom as soon as Rebecca informed her of the letter she’d received in the mail. She’d always liked to read her personal mail in a private setting and this was no exception. Especially since she already knew who it was from. Will. She’d been waiting for it, expecting it.

Her hand caressed the envelope, as though he were still holding it. She imagined his steady hand, heavy with grief and shaking slightly. Saloma brought the letter close to see if any of Will’s scent, a drop of his cologne perhaps, had clung to the letter.

She turned the damper to raise the flame on the kerosene lamp, and took a deep breath before tearing into his letter. Her eyes hesitantly read the words as her heart silently cried for her lost love.

Dear Sally,

I don’t know where to begin. I never thought I’d be writing a letter of this nature. This is all so heartbreaking and strange. My uncle recently informed me of what you already know – we have the same father. This is still a shock to me, as I’m sure it is to you too. To think we are brother and sister! Oh, how I wish it wasn’t so! I don’t know if I can ever see you as anything other than the love of my life. If only circumstances were different. If only there was a way.

I know that I said the next time I come to see you it would be to take you as my bride. Now I know that will never be. You were right. Our situation is impossible. With that being the case, I have something to say. I release you to court and love whomever you please. You have my blessing.

With a heavy heart,

Your brother, Will

Saloma folded the now-tearstained letter and placed it under her pillow. It was official. There was no hope for her and Will. Even he acknowledged it.

~

It was time. Will could wait no longer to reveal the contents in his mother’s file.

He had no choice but to come to grips with his reality. The letter to Sally had been the most difficult of all. The anguish in his heart didn’t negate the facts, no matter how much he longed for an alternative truth. Releasing Sally to love another had been excruciating, but isn’t that the essence of real love? When you truly love someone, you desire the best for them. No matter if your own heart is breaking in two, yearning for what can never be.

Will turned to the task at hand. He sifted through all kinds of important papers. He lifted out his birth certificate. His eyes roamed the document until it came to the place of birth. I wasn’t born in Pennsylvania? That’s odd. He was pretty certain Elam and his mother lived in Lancaster County when they married. He searched the stack of papers on the table beside him, the ones he’d just waded through, and found his parents’ marriage certificate. Sure enough, they’d married in Pennsylvania.

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