Healing the Mountain Man's Heart (Brothers of Sapphire Ranch Book 1) by Misty M. Beller

Author:Misty M. Beller [Beller, Misty M.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Misty M. Beller Books, Inc.
Published: 2023-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 17

"Dinah, honey. You have to get some rest."

Dinah jerked upright and blinked, scrambling to recognize where she was and what her sister was talking about.

Her gaze landed on Jericho's pox-covered face, and the past week flooded back in an exhausting wave, pressing her back in the chair, weighing on her chest.

He was so sick. She'd been by his side nearly every moment these past few days. But nothing she'd done seemed to help a jot.

He lay there now, his breaths wheezing in and out. The postules must still be raw down his throat. In fact, none had begun to scab anywhere on his body.

The fever still raged, and he'd not been able to keep anything she gave him down more than an hour. Heal him, Lord. Why haven't You done it yet?

The Bible said to be like the widow in the book of John who pestered the judge until he gave in, and she'd been begging God every hour for this man's healing.

"You need to rest, Di. And those blankets you’ve been using to sleep on the floor are clearly not giving you enough sleep. Come to my bed. I'll watch Jericho, and I'll wake you if anything changes with him."

She blinked and tried to focus on her sister, but her eyes burned. "I can't contaminate your bed." When she had her own single bed moved to the main room for Jonah, she’d thought to make up a bed pallet in the other chamber where the bed had been. But with Jericho so ill, she’d simply brought two wool blankets into this room and slept on the floor.

Naomi threw her hands up. "Then lie in his bed." She pointed to the wide space on the other side of Jericho. "It's not as if he has the strength to do anything to you. And we all know the situation. None here would judge. In fact, we'd all be relieved."

Dinah shook her head and swallowed to moisten her dry throat. "I can't do that." Though Jericho might never know she'd lain beside him, these emotional days caring for him had stripped away all her pretending that she didn't care about him.

He'd shown the strength of his character, the depth of his heart, since that day they first met him by the creek. He might not care for her at all, but he'd won her heart little by little. And lying beside him would mean giving away another piece.

If he recovered and didn't feel the same for her—or worse, if he succumbed to this sickness—she would have to heal from the damage already done to her heart. She had no desire to add more to that pain.

She pushed to her feet. "You shouldn't be in here." She'd done her best to keep Naomi and all the others away, though she'd needed Jude's help at times to assist Jericho with personal matters.

Naomi shouldn't risk herself and the baby though.

As she ushered her sister out, she paused at the doorway and glanced around the main room.

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