Surprised by Love

Author:Julie Lessman [Lessman, Julie]
Language: eng, fra
Format: epub
Tags: FIC042030, FIC042040, FIC027050, Single women—California—San Francisco—Fiction, San Francisco (Calif.)—History—20th century—Fiction, Christian fiction, Love stories
ISBN: 9781441219534
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-03T16:00:00+00:00

22

Logan stared out the window of his six-story office, the dark thunderclouds rolling over the pewter bay as vicious and rare as the angst churning in his gut. At least since Meg’s party Saturday night when Cait had struck with a little thunder of her own. He absently rubbed the cheek she had slapped as he slumped back in his chair. He kneaded the socket of his eye with the heel of his palm to alleviate the tension that had been brewing between Cait and him ever since. A sharp, divisive tension that kept him working late at the office to explain his absence at dinners. Absence from his family.

And absence from Cait’s life.

A silent groan rose in his chest as he rested his head, eyes closed.

Why, Cait? When you love me like I know you do, why turn on me so?

The answer, deep and silent, niggled. It came to him in the dead of each night when he couldn’t sleep, and in every hour of every day when he couldn’t forget. Painful guilt slithering through his thoughts, confirming what he already knew. Cait loved him, yes, but she couldn’t trust him. Not when hate could so easily erupt for the man who was trying to take her away. The man who threatened to shatter Logan’s dream a second time. Sweat beaded the back of his neck when he realized something he’d never fully entertained before.

Andrew could do it.

And Logan could lose her.

The look of anger and disgust he’d seen in Cait’s eyes that night assured him Turner was making inroads into her heart, rapidly becoming a force to be reckoned with, which chilled Logan’s blood. For surely the hundredth time since Saturday night, a thick and heavy malaise settled, convincing him he needed to do something to staunch the flow of Cait’s distrust, to stem the bleeding of their love. And yet all the while, rage simmered beneath the surface of reason, an invitation to hunt Turner down and spill some blood of his own. His hands fisted on the arm of the chair as he stared aimlessly into the sea of uncertainty. Dear God in heaven, what can I do?

Pray.

The thought, so distant and faint, struck hard like one of those extraordinary bolts of lightning high over San Francisco Bay, a remarkable rarity that left the city in awe. Much like Logan was feeling right now. Pray?

The thought seemed almost ludicrous, and he might have dismissed it if it hadn’t produced an infinitesimal flash of hope, no matter how brief. A split second of shimmering light in an otherwise dark and ominous sky. Oh yes, he’d certainly made great strides toward God in the last year, actually enjoying church for the first time in his life. And he couldn’t deny he’d seen countless answers to prayer in Cait’s life and those of Jamie, Bram, and his nieces. But him? Would God even listen to a sinner like him?

A memory drifted in his mind, as quiet as the directive

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