Nothing Sacred
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able thing,” David said many minutes later.
She agreed with him, but still wanted to hear what he was thinking. “How so?”
“People who’d be ordinary people on their own come together to create a world that shows them something they could never see otherwise. A higher purpose.”
To Martha, Shelter Valley was just home. A pretty special place, but just home. “What purpose?”
“It shows us a dream that’s real and solid and lasting. It’s evidence of everything I talk about. It’s proof that one thing will always win out.”
“And what’s that?”
“Love.” He kissed her, a passionate, openmouthed kiss.
“You do know that everything that’s happened has been for a purpose, don’t you?” Martha asked when she could finally think again. Her eyes were having a hard time focusing, but she needed to make sure that David’s heart was filled with peace.
“Would that be something I taught you, madam?” he asked, grinning at her.
“It would.”
“And now you’re going to tell me what that purpose is?”
“I am.”
He kissed her. “And what would that be?”
She wanted him to kiss her again. To stop all this talking. But there was something more important. Something he had to know.
“To bring you home.”
She thought he’d kiss her then. He didn’t. David’s eyes glistened with tears that didn’t fall. But those tears touched Martha’s heart, her spirit, with the promise of their future together.
This man was hers. He was going to make mistakes. He was going to forgive her mistakes.
But he was never, ever going to leave her.
Together, they’d found home.