Brought Together by Baby by Carolyne Aarsen

Author:Carolyne Aarsen
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780373812264
Publisher: Steeple Hill
Published: 2005-01-03T13:00:00+00:00

“Why do you say that?”

“It’s part of my past. A part I’m trying to forget.”

“The past is hard to let go of,” Eli said. He should know. He had struggled himself with memories of his natural parents. He was six when they died and still remembered them. When he came to the Cavanaughs, they didn’t seem to know what to do about the hurt in his life. So they didn’t talk about it. “Whether we like it or not it is part of who we are.”

Rachel sighed lightly, glancing back again at Gracie. “I know it has been a large part of who I am, yet I feel like that’s changing.”

Eli heard the pain in her voice. “Is this something to do with why you hate hospitals?”

Rachel nodded, half turning away from him. For a moment he thought she wasn’t going to answer him. But then she pulled her knees up to her chin, wrapped her arms around them and started talking.

“I spent a month in the hospital eight years ago,” she said, her voice so quiet that Eli had to strain to hear her. “I sat at the bedside of the young man I thought God had destined for me to marry. For four weeks, I prayed for his recovery. I know too well how a respirator sounds, the beep of a heart monitor. But my prayers didn’t make a difference…”

Her voice hitched on the last word, and Eli understood where the story was going. He brushed aside his uncertain feelings toward her and covered her hand with his in a gesture of sympathy.

To his surprise, she curled her fingers around his, clinging to him, and as she did, a place slowly opened deep in his heart.

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