Courting Emma by Sharlene Maclaren

Author:Sharlene Maclaren [Maclaren, Sharlene]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781603740203
Publisher: Whitaker House
Published: 2007-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

So thirsty. Jon rubbed his tongue over the roof of his mouth and found it dry as cotton, his lips cracked and sore. He was burning up, but couldn't say if it was due to fever or the beastly hot temperature in the little cave. He swiped at his face with his sleeve and groaned. It seemed every muscle in his body ached as he drifted in and out of a restless stupor, his body quivering out of control.

He wasn't at death's door; of that, he was certain. No, in situations such as this, death tended to take its sweet time, but the question of how long a Yuan could go without water did harass his half-witted mind. Was it three days or longer? The thought of waiting another day made his throat constrict, his heart jump erratically.

Confusing thoughts and images kept surfacing, his father's weather-beaten, hard-lined face evolving into that of Ezra Browning, then emerging into some kind of hairy varmint with black, stir-crazy eyes. He shuddered and fought down a queasy stomach.

Einnia's face sprang up next, like a budding tulip just opening on a warns May morning, a refreshing sight in comparison. He reached up to cup her chin, but she shrank back.

Be Jesus to Ezra came the clear thought in the midst of all the fuzzy ones.

"Lord?" lie asked.

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

He recognized the words of the psalmist. "Lord," he managed in a hoarse voice. "If You bring me out of this black place, I promise to do all I can to bring Ezra to You."

My son, I am with you. I will never leave you or forsake you.

The last thing he remembered as he drifted off to sleep was the sweet, seductive song of a Kentucky bluebird.

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