His Wounded Heart by R. L. Syme

Author:R. L. Syme
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: christian Fiction
ISBN: 978-1-61116-219-6
Publisher: Pelican Ventures Book Group
Published: 2012-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Sean’s knees still twinged from when he scooted to the very edge of his seat to make her feel more comfortable. Every time he moved that quickly and without much care, the same thing happened. It was all he could do to keep from visibly wincing. Although he was sure that if anyone could tell he was in pain, it would be Jaclyn, the doctor.

It was hard for him to believe that she was an MD. Mostly because all the doctors he’d ever had were wrinkly old white-haired men with bald spots and spare tires. None of them had a face or a body or a heart like Jaclyn. And none of them probably remembered being her age. She might still be in med school.

He’d never asked her.

There were so many things he didn’t know about her that he wanted to: Where had she gone to high school? What were her parents like? What had happened to her knee to give her the long, smooth scar that ran along her kneecap? Maybe she had other scars he hadn’t seen yet. He wanted to know about those, too.

And all the things she liked to do, the things she didn’t like to do, her childhood memories, her fears. He was curious about every part of her.

Even—and he hated to admit this most of all—her faith. The kind of dignity and courage he’d seen in her when he had treated her so horribly made him curious about this woman who didn’t care that he spitefully abused her religion to her face. She responded with kindness, and she never got petty with him. Most Christians, with the exception of Carter, didn’t last more than thirty seconds under his scrutiny.

So he dismissed them completely. Like his own parents. They couldn’t handle his irreverence, and that made him dislike this god they’d created for themselves to worship—this god who didn’t seem anything like the Biblical God he’d read about the one time he picked up the Bible as an adult. He’d read the book of John for a college literature class once.

If he could find some people who worshiped that God, he had always thought, he would be more convinced. And after meeting Carter and his family, and then meeting Jaclyn, he was starting to wonder.

Just wonder.

The movie finally came to an end, after almost ninety tense minutes of him trying to pretend he wasn’t thinking about and observing Jaclyn. When the credits started to roll, Carter and Katie gazed into each other’s eyes.

“Let’s go out onto the porch and watch the sunset,” Katie purred.

Sean had heard that voice before from plenty of women. That was the let’s go somewhere alone voice.

“Will you guys be OK?” Carter turned to Sean and Jaclyn as Katie tugged on his hand. “Should I put in another movie?”

Jaclyn curled her lips into a tight smile. “Anything but a chick flick.”

Carter pulled out a movie cover Sean didn’t recognize and popped the DVD into the open player. “I think you’ll like this.

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