Gideon (INSPIRED BY JUDGES #2) by Shawna Coleing EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Shawna Coleing
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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THE WINDSHIELD WIPERS smeared the spattering of rain across the
glass, turning the road ahead into a shapeless mass.
Gideon tugged on the wiper lever. It whirred, but no water sprayed onto
the windscreen. He’d checked everything in the old beat-up Chevy.
Changed the oil, fixed the bearings, and added a new battery. Everything
but fill the windshield fluid reservoir. Not high on his list of priorities with
what he had on his mind. It hadn’t been his idea to make this trip. And
while he wouldn’t go so far as to say he’d been forced, it sure felt like it.
God hadn’t let him have a moment’s peace until he’d given in.
He rolled down his window, the wind whipping his hair into a frenzy as
he looked out at the billowing storm clouds to the west, promising heavy
rain. But he was headed east. The rain never came that way. It hadn’t for
many years.
As he followed a wide curve in the road, the sun shifted directly into his
path until the glare on the filthy windshield almost completely obscured his
view. He pulled to the side of the road, grabbed a bottle of water from the
seat beside him, then climbed out onto the dusty verge.
Over the rumble of the engine, he could hear the buzzing from the
orchestra of insects that inhabited the meadow, then the sharp crackle of the
cheap plastic container under his fingers as he dumped the last of its
contents onto the window.
Before getting back in his truck, he inhaled the scent of earth and grain
that the warm breeze carried in surges over the fields. The hint of green that
still tinted the grasses would be gone in a few more miles. The drought had
settled in and hadn’t relented. But that wasn’t Gideon’s problem. His issues
had nothing to do with the climate or the price of gas. He’d made a promise
to God that he’d see this through as long as it didn’t cost him everything.
Once he’d cleared the windshield and got the truck back up to speed, he
rested his arm on the window frame and let his mind drain of any miserable
thoughts over the next hour, focusing on the broken white line in the middle
of the road until he reached a tree-edged section of land on the outskirts of
town. It had been seven years since he’d last stepped foot in Asher.
He’d
thought at the time it had been his last. But even now, with the gold-tipped
grasses ablaze in the sun, he knew he never would have come back if
circumstances hadn’t pushed him to it.
A sign on the side of the road, dented and partially obscured by an
abandoned market stall advertising corn, read:
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