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I rubbed at iveness!" I turned to leave, but a gentle clasp on my arm stopped me It was Grace, Jim's wife

"What's your name?" She asked softly

"Kim Pollock" I said in response

She stepped forward away from her husband and took both of my hands with hers, "Kim I don't knohat this evil woman has over you, but I have so I witnessed after my husband's affair was that he waited a year to tellhell, when all he had to do was co some terrible secret froive you whatever it is The longer you keep this a secret the worse it's going to get!"

"You don't understand! I can't tell them! They raised me better than to do what I did I……" I shook my head helplessly for lack of words to express the hopelessness of my situation

Jim's hand closed over my shoulder and I looked up to him to hear him say, "Yes you can and you should! Trust h, but the correct course of action is to do the right thing! The thing you know that's right to do in your heart like co their love honesty is what you owe those to who or you'll never be free!"

Both of their words were hitting me hard and I balled out in misery, "But their missionaries!"

That didn't evena co me like they saw me as a fool

Grace peered into my eyes in a way that made me feel like she saw all the way to my soul, "Are you a Christian Kim?"

I stuttered on the response, "I was once, but I……"

She cut me off as she squeezed my hands firmly, "He still loves you!"

Her words were delivered softly in the gentle caring manner that was about her as a person, but there was an authority to them as well as the truth in her eyes that was beyond question and which completely overpowered me I let my head fall forward to her shoulder and I cried like I never had before as her arhtly

Never would I have expected such an outreach froainst I really wasa fool of myself now