Chapter 40
Chapter Forty
Seth
As Ella walked away, it felt like half my heart had left with her.
She was really going. I’d seen her and the babies a couple times a week at church or Wednesday nights with Maggie or just when she’d drop by to visit with her mom.
And it brought so much joy to my life. Now, it felt like that joy was sucked right out of it.
I stared at the note she’d slipped into my hand and then at Honey. “What do you think it says?”
Honey pecked at a freckle on my arm. I’d locked up Buster in the barn, and I’d have to train her not to bother Honey if she followed me outside the house.
“Ow.” I set her down and let her eat some grass while I unfolded the letter.
When I saw my own handwriting, it felt like a punch to the gut. I’d forgotten about this. The one where I’d asked Ella if she would ever consider me more than a friend. I stared at the options I’d given her for answers.
Just friends Maybe more.
She hadn’t circled either answer. Instead, she had written in her own.
Wait for me.
I gasped, feeling light bleed into my chest as the heaviness that her departure had brought lifted. Wait for me. Ella needed time, and I’d wait however long it took at the chance to have a shot with her. Especially since those very words matched what God had told me that day in the barn.
Wait for her.