Read Online Indemnity: Book Two: Covenant of Trust Series by Paula Wiseman - Free Book Online Page B
Authors: Paula Wiseman
Tags: Religión, Fiction, Family, Christian fiction, Religious, Married People, Christian Life, trust, forgiveness
Ads: Link
loving kindness in the morning.” That’s a good one. Tomorrow morning would be good, Lord. Then she read the next line. “For in You do I trust.”
“ It’s the trust thing again,” she said, shaking her head, and then she read the psalm once more.
Father God, You are good and faithful, but this terrifies me. Chuck isn’t as strong as he thinks he is. This woman ... she’s evil, and she’s up to something, but Chuck refuses to see it.
She sighed and shifted sideways, then drew her legs up under her.
I hate feeling like this, being at odds with my husband and with my boys, and I’m afraid of what You might be asking me to go through.
What if Chuck left her this time?
Help me let go and give this to You. I need Your peace.
ACQUIESCENCE
Saturday, August 4
Chuck sensed the daylight before he opened his eyes, and stretching his arm out, he felt the cool pillow on Bobbi’s side of the bed. She never came upstairs. He hurried down to the kitchen as quickly as he could.
Bobbi was in her usual morning place at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee. She wore yesterday’s clothes, and looked up at him with the bleary eyes of a long night.
“ Did you sleep?”
She took a long sip. “Not really.” Tired fatalism replaced the combative edge in her voice.
“ Bobbi, I’m sorry. I don’t want it to be like this.”
“ Like what?”
“ I don’t want this tension between us.”
“ Then you’re ready to listen?”
“ I’ve been listening.”
She shook her head and gulped from her cup. “Never mind.”
“ Stop building this wall, please. I cannot go through this without you.”
“ You’re doing just fine.”
“ That’s not true.”
“ You left before I woke up yesterday, never bothered to call me, and spent the day researching Tracy Ravenna.”
“ I explained all that.”
“ You’ve shut me out, Chuck.” She pushed back from the table, widening the distance between them. “From the moment that woman walked through the doors of the law firm, she had your undivided attention. And now here she is again and you’ve dropped everything else to focus on her.”
“ Because I want to get it resolved quickly.”
“ There will never be a resolution,” she muttered, then finished off her coffee, and set the cup down on the table hard, a preface to rendering her verdict. “You feel this passion about what to do, so I’m going to take for granted that it’s God leading.” Chuck smiled slightly. “I’m not convinced, but I can’t seem to get any other answer from Him.”
Chuck slid into a chair beside hers. “Honey, how could God tell me one thing and tell you another?”
“ He couldn’t. One of us is wrong.”
“ I’m not wrong. Not now, not on this.”
“ Of course you aren’t,” Bobbi said.
“ So you’re giving me a green light?”
“ A very yellow light.”
“ Fair enough,” Chuck said. No one could have changed Bobbi’s mind like this except for God Himself. “I’m going to file papers Monday acknowledging paternity and asking for DNA testing to prove it.”
“ I know.”
“ Then I’m going to ask for joint legal custody.”
“ Which means what exactly?”
“ Jack will still live with his mother, but we have to make any major decisions together.”
“ Together. That’s what I’m afraid of.”
Sunday, August 5
“ Any sign of Brad, yet?” Bobbi asked Shannon when she bounced into the kitchen.
“ Nope.”
“ It shouldn’t take him an hour to get from church to the house.” Something was going on. Work, or school coming up. Or maybe he just didn’t want to spend the afternoon in the same house with her and Chuck. After Friday night, she couldn’t blame him for that one.
“ He said he had to get gas.” Shannon pulled a raw carrot off a serving dish.
“ It doesn’t take an hour to buy gasoline.”
“ That’s what he said. Can we eat anyway? Grandma and Uncle Rita and Aunt Gavin just got here.”
“
“ It’s the trust thing again,” she said, shaking her head, and then she read the psalm once more.
Father God, You are good and faithful, but this terrifies me. Chuck isn’t as strong as he thinks he is. This woman ... she’s evil, and she’s up to something, but Chuck refuses to see it.
She sighed and shifted sideways, then drew her legs up under her.
I hate feeling like this, being at odds with my husband and with my boys, and I’m afraid of what You might be asking me to go through.
What if Chuck left her this time?
Help me let go and give this to You. I need Your peace.
ACQUIESCENCE
Saturday, August 4
Chuck sensed the daylight before he opened his eyes, and stretching his arm out, he felt the cool pillow on Bobbi’s side of the bed. She never came upstairs. He hurried down to the kitchen as quickly as he could.
Bobbi was in her usual morning place at the kitchen table with a cup of coffee. She wore yesterday’s clothes, and looked up at him with the bleary eyes of a long night.
“ Did you sleep?”
She took a long sip. “Not really.” Tired fatalism replaced the combative edge in her voice.
“ Bobbi, I’m sorry. I don’t want it to be like this.”
“ Like what?”
“ I don’t want this tension between us.”
“ Then you’re ready to listen?”
“ I’ve been listening.”
She shook her head and gulped from her cup. “Never mind.”
“ Stop building this wall, please. I cannot go through this without you.”
“ You’re doing just fine.”
“ That’s not true.”
“ You left before I woke up yesterday, never bothered to call me, and spent the day researching Tracy Ravenna.”
“ I explained all that.”
“ You’ve shut me out, Chuck.” She pushed back from the table, widening the distance between them. “From the moment that woman walked through the doors of the law firm, she had your undivided attention. And now here she is again and you’ve dropped everything else to focus on her.”
“ Because I want to get it resolved quickly.”
“ There will never be a resolution,” she muttered, then finished off her coffee, and set the cup down on the table hard, a preface to rendering her verdict. “You feel this passion about what to do, so I’m going to take for granted that it’s God leading.” Chuck smiled slightly. “I’m not convinced, but I can’t seem to get any other answer from Him.”
Chuck slid into a chair beside hers. “Honey, how could God tell me one thing and tell you another?”
“ He couldn’t. One of us is wrong.”
“ I’m not wrong. Not now, not on this.”
“ Of course you aren’t,” Bobbi said.
“ So you’re giving me a green light?”
“ A very yellow light.”
“ Fair enough,” Chuck said. No one could have changed Bobbi’s mind like this except for God Himself. “I’m going to file papers Monday acknowledging paternity and asking for DNA testing to prove it.”
“ I know.”
“ Then I’m going to ask for joint legal custody.”
“ Which means what exactly?”
“ Jack will still live with his mother, but we have to make any major decisions together.”
“ Together. That’s what I’m afraid of.”
Sunday, August 5
“ Any sign of Brad, yet?” Bobbi asked Shannon when she bounced into the kitchen.
“ Nope.”
“ It shouldn’t take him an hour to get from church to the house.” Something was going on. Work, or school coming up. Or maybe he just didn’t want to spend the afternoon in the same house with her and Chuck. After Friday night, she couldn’t blame him for that one.
“ He said he had to get gas.” Shannon pulled a raw carrot off a serving dish.
“ It doesn’t take an hour to buy gasoline.”
“ That’s what he said. Can we eat anyway? Grandma and Uncle Rita and Aunt Gavin just got here.”
“
Similar Books
