Heartsong (Logan 2)

I insisted. "If we suffer, we suffer because of our own

sins,"

Cary claimed. Then he looked away. I knew

why. "Maybe what you think is a sin isn't," I said

softly.

"It's not a sin to love someone too much." "Yes, itis. he said quickly. "Remember

Adam?

Remember Original Sin?"

"Should I? Did I commit that, too?"

I started to smile. "All right, tell me." "After Eve ate of the fruit and was doomed to

be cast from Paradise, Adam ate so he would not be

without her. That's loving too much," he explained. "Just like a man to find another way to blame a

woman for his own mistakes," I said. Cary's eyes

widened.

"What?"

"That's just a Bible story, Cary. Do you really

believe it?"

He turned away again.

"The Bible is full of lessons that prove true in

our own lives," he recited mechanically.

I tried to see through his rehearsed words to the

true heartfelt feelings that lay behind them. There was

something more he wasn't telling me. I could feel it in

the silence and see it in the tight way he held his jaw. "Everyone seems to want to bury his head in

the sand in this family, Cary. It seems to be in the

blood," I said dryly.

"What do you mean?"

"What do I mean? Right from the start,

Grandma Olivia and Grandpa Samuel created a lie

about who my mother was. My mother continued the