Brush of Wings by Kingsbury Karen

Author:Kingsbury, Karen [Kingsbury, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Inspirational, Age Range 2 Older Audience, Romance, Adult, Contemporary
ISBN: 9781451687545
Goodreads: 27220808
Publisher: Howard Books
Published: 2016-03-29T07:00:00+00:00

16

SAMI DIDN’T TURN ON THE TV at the Youth Center until the teen meeting was finished, just in time to watch the Dodgers miss a return to the World Series. The Dodgers and Reds had been tied, three games each. Marcus was pitching a shutout, but the Reds’ ace hitter caught the outside edge of a fastball and sent it over the fence for a walk-off home run.

And that was that.

Sami turned the TV off and gathered her things. She wasn’t glad for the loss, but it wasn’t the worst news. The team still had a successful season, and now she and Tyler could finalize their wedding plans.

A few security guards and volunteers were still finishing up at the center, but most everyone had gone home. Sami was about to leave when she heard someone out in the hallway. She turned just as Aspyn walked into the room.

“Sami! I caught you!” Aspyn was a local volunteer. She hadn’t been around as much lately. “One of the neighbors told me I could find you here.” She walked in and took one of the seats in the front row. “Can you talk?”

“Umm.” Sami was supposed to talk with Tyler later. She checked the clock on the wall. “I have another meeting.” She didn’t want to seem uninterested. “I haven’t seen you in a while. What’s up?”

Aspyn took a deep breath and shook her head. “So much. I’ve been helping with another ministry. But today, I had this feeling I needed to stop by. Maybe hear about the teen program. How’s it working out?”

Sami wasn’t getting out of here anytime soon. She kept her phone in her hand in case Tyler called, took a seat near Aspyn, and gave her a quick rundown on the teen mentor program. “We don’t have Mary Catherine. She went to Africa.” Sami felt the familiar uneasiness, the anxiety that was worse every time she thought about her friend. Once again, Mary Catherine had responded to her last email, but without any of the answers she had asked for.

Concern shone in Aspyn’s eyes. “I heard about that. I was hoping she’d stay here. There’s so much to do.”

The conversation bounced from Mary Catherine to the teen mentor program to the progress the Youth Center had made. Tyler called midway through the talk, and Sami held up her phone. “Let me get this. Just for a minute.”

Aspyn sat back. “Take your time.” Clearly she wasn’t going anywhere.

Sami answered the call and told Tyler she was sorry about the loss. She’d call him back. Then she turned to Aspyn again. “Where was I?”

“The teen program. How it’s working without Mary Catherine.”

“Right.” Sami tried to sum up the work they’d been doing, and how her friends from UCLA were helping out. “As for the local girls, they’re making progress, definitely.”

“Glad to hear it.” Aspyn looked thoughtful. “It’s still a battle, though.”

Sami agreed, but she really wanted to get going. Wednesdays were her longest days, and she couldn’t wait to talk to Tyler.

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