He’d played football in high school and in an amateur league in his younger days and despite having just turned fifty two, still looked like he could lay a serious hit on someone.
The fact he was ten years older than Hannah was cause for some occasional gossip as the church mice, as his mother called them, thought it was odd he hadn’t met his wife in Bible College where most ministers met theirs.
Further fueling that topic was the Ashton’s weren’t originally from Rhode Island and had moved here from the west coast. Not that Austin saw anything odd about that, but he wasn’t the type to buy into the rumor mill.
From what Noah had told him, his parents had met at a revival in Los Angeles where Reverend Ashton had just started a small church, and when she showed up there, the two started da
