Christmas by the Sea by Beth Wiseman

Author:Beth Wiseman [Wiseman, Beth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Christian, Short Fiction, Romance, Adult, Contemporary Romance
Publisher: Elizabeth Wiseman Mackey
Published: 2016-11-04T00:00:00+00:00

Alex lay two red roses on her father’s grave. The headstone still hadn’t arrived, but it had only been a couple of weeks since she’d ordered it. She’d come to visit him every day since the funeral, and now with Thanksgiving only a few days away, she still cried every time she visited. She’d still been searching for Parker, but twenty-three hospitals later, she still had no information. Maybe she was just never meant to know him. She was there, at the right time, at the right moment. Fate? God’s will that we met, never to see each other again? With each day, she was accepting that reality, although she’d see his eyes, the look before he completely went underwater, for the rest of her life. But she could recall his square jaw and his handsome features too. She wanted to remember him forever, and she was sure she would.

“I’m off to work, Daddy.” Alex kissed her fingertips, then pressed them against the dirt of her father’s grave, the mound slowly flattening with each of her visits.

Taking a deep breath, she got in her rental car, an ugly dark green Camry that her insurance company provided. She’d gotten a new drivers license, Social Security card, and replaced other items she’d lost during the flood. The loss of life had hit a hundred, and there were still dozens in Galveston hospitals and other facilities in Houston. Most of those killed were the ones who hadn’t left the island, the old timers who had survived many a hurricane, some as far back as Hurricanes Alicia and Carmen. Both before Alex’s time.

She’d just started driving toward the cemetery exit when she heard music coming from her purse. She put her foot on the brake and dug around inside her bag until she found the phone and answered.

“You’re still coming for Thanksgiving, right?” Shelley was hosting her entire family in her small apartment for the holiday. Alex wasn’t sure how she’d fit even one more person. Shelley said she was expecting eighteen.

“Yeah, I’ll be there. Thanks, Shelley.”

Alex would have preferred to sit on the beach and eat tacos with her father, watch the boats, the waves, and inhale the briny smells of an ocean they both loved, but that wasn’t going to happen this year. Shelley had been insistent that Alex spend the holiday with her and her family, and maybe it was best Alex not be alone on this first holiday without her beloved father.

Hopefully, her father had found her mother and they were both gazing upon a great ocean in heaven, eating all the fish tacos that they could consume.

And hopefully Alex would start to feel normal again some day.

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