Love in Tandem by Becca Kinzer

Author:Becca Kinzer [Kinzer, Becca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FICTION / Christian / Romance / General, FICTION / Romance / Contemporary
ISBN: 9781496466143
Publisher: Tyndale House Publishers
Published: 2024-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

Sophia jammed her foot on the gas pedal to make it up the steep hill, not sure who was groaning louder— herself or the car. “Come on, baby, I know you’re ready to be put out to pasture, but I can’t afford another car right now, so you’re just gonna have to keep climbing. You hear me? Climb.”

Her car clearly didn’t hear her. Or perhaps didn’t appreciate her attempts at singing “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” in her best Reverend Mother voice.

So maybe driving straight here after work this afternoon had been a mistake. Maybe she should’ve figured out what was wrong with her car first. Especially since finding Mr. Hopkins’s house required taking the whee-way.

In high school Sophia’s friends had nicknamed this back country route the whee-way since it had so many rolling hills that made them yell “Whee!” Now it only made Sophia want to yell “Why?”

Why did Mr. Hopkins have to die before she got the chance to talk to him? Why didn’t she talk to the cutie-pants Clark Kent guy when she had the chance at the hospital? Why were there so many hills in the second-flattest state in the continent?

“Come on, girl. You think you can, you think you can . . . Almost to the top.” Of this hill. Sophia didn’t have the heart to tell her Little Engine That Could that they had at least two more after this one. From its sputters, Sophia guessed her car already knew.

After several morbid rattles, then one steamy hiss, her car must have given up the ghost. It drifted into deathly silence, leaving Sophia just enough time to steer it to the side of the road before stopping completely.

Well, great. She set the parking brake. At least getting a tow shouldn’t be a problem. One of the perks of having a dad who worked at a mechanic’s shop. She pretty much had Rusty on speed dial. Or Trusty Rusty as she liked to call him.

Sophia began digging into her purse for her phone, then remembered. She didn’t have her phone. In her rush this morning to swing by Charlotte’s and feed the cat, she’d forgotten her phone on the kitchen counter.

Okay, maybe not exactly forgotten. Maybe more like purposefully abandoned.

Leaving her phone behind made avoiding conversations with her parents a lot easier. If only it didn’t make calling for a tow truck a heap trickier.

Sophia sighed, scanning the empty road and stretch of cornfields surrounding her. The Hopkins house shouldn’t be far from here if she remembered the directions correctly. Might as well start walking, right? She wasn’t going to find answers—or a ride back to town—just standing here.

About twenty minutes later, Sophia stumbled across a narrow dirt path on the side of the road. On closer inspection, the narrow road appeared to be a long driveway surrounded by overgrown bushes. And embedded in one of those overgrown bushes sat a mailbox with the initials A. P. H.

Funny, she’d never noticed this driveway before. Of course, when you were busy tossing your hands up and yelling “Whee!” it was kind of hard to notice anything.

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