The Color of Love by MacLean Julianne

Author:MacLean, Julianne [MacLean, Julianne]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2014-08-11T00:00:00+00:00

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Chapter Forty-one

Carla

I should have known it would be a strange night when the power went out mere seconds before the telephone rang.

Kaleigh was in her bedroom practicing her guitar and I was sitting on the sofa watching a repeat episode of How I Met Your Mother. Suddenly everything went black and the TV went pop before shutting down.

Kaleigh called out to me. “Mom!”

“It’s just the power!” I called back. “I’m getting a flashlight!”

Her door flew open. “Where are you?”

“I’m in the living room,” I replied in a calm voice as I felt my way along the wall toward the junk drawer in the kitchen.

I pulled it open, dug around until I found the flashlight, turned it on and handed it to Kaleigh. “Here, use this.” Then I crossed the kitchen to answer the phone. “Hello?”

“Hello, is this Carla Matthews?”

The voice on the other end sounded far away, as if it was a bad connection.

“Yes, this is she.”

There was a brief pause. “Hi. My name is Donna Fisher and I’m a nurse calling from St. Agnes Hospital in Newfoundland, Canada. Are you the wife of Seth Jameson?”

My chest constricted with panic and dread. Instinctively, I turned my back on Kaleigh, wanting to shield her from whatever news was about to befall us—at least until I had a chance to deal with it myself.

“Yes, that’s me,” I replied.

Another pause. “Well… I have good news and not so good news,” she said. “The good news is that a man was brought into the hospital this afternoon and we believe he might be your missing husband.”

Her words reverberated inside my brain and I couldn’t breathe for a moment. “What?”

“He was discovered this morning on top of an iceberg,” Donna continued, “floating in the ocean north of here, but we have no idea how he came to be there. He was spotted by a crew member on a container ship passing through the area, and it’s a miracle they saw him. They had quite a time getting to him.”

“Oh, My God,” I replied, laying a hand on my chest and turning to face Kaleigh who was staring at me with wide eyes.

“He was rescued and brought in by helicopter,” Donna explained, “but I have to warn you, he’s not doing so well. We have no idea how long he was out there. He was unresponsive when they reached him and he hasn’t regained consciousness.”

I was having a hard time comprehending all of this. I didn’t know what to do. “But he’s alive?” I asked.

“Yes, but severely hypothermic and malnourished. We understand he was involved in a plane crash a year ago?”

“That’s right.”

She paused again. “I can’t believe he survived all this time. It truly is a miracle.”

There was that word again.

I felt Kaleigh’s hand on my arm. “What is it, Mom?” she asked. “What’s happening?”

I held her tightly in my gaze. My heart felt like it was going to explode. “It’s unbelievable. They found your father.”

In that moment, the lights came back on.

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