Layne stood on the porch, feet apart, hands folded behind his back. He watched the rain drip off the roof to the handrail below. The wind continued to whip around him, sending a watery mist across his arms. He didn’t mind the icy droplets. They had just enough time to cool his skin before they evaporated. Neither the wind nor the rain cooled the fire within him.
As curious as he was over the flooding, he couldn’t force himself to leave the porch. Everything that happened within the last hour left him in a daze. He’d never experienced fear the way he had earlier, or any of the other emotions that rocked him. There had been plenty.
The emotional roller coaster left him physically drained, as well as mentally. Everything ached—his head, his stomach, his heart. He’d witnessed the most miracu
