Chapter 31
(Jehovah’s Valley, 11:30 a.m. Thursday, October 2, 2013)
STEPHEN INTERCEPTED Janet as she came out of the barn. “Do you want to see Dad before you leave?”
Janet hesitated. She fingered the two letters that had been sitting on the bedside table waiting to be opened and read. She’d almost left them there, but in the end, she’d put the letters in her pocket.
“No,” she said. “I said my goodbyes to mom's grave. Dad and I have nothing to say to each other.”
She started walking toward the main road. Then she stopped, turned around. “Stephen, Eli’s staying. He’s going to tell Timothy he’s his son, you might help him with that. It won’t be an easy conversation. Eli's had a rough time of it.”
Shorty caught the last of that as he and Mac came out, carrying a box of food for the trip
