test had proved to be negative but it had instead, proved that whoever that finger belonged to, was 99.9% positively Jacks’ biological mother! Dear God! What will happen now? Knowing that he was waiting anxiously for the results, she dialed his number.
After talking to her, Jacks hung the phone up and sat back in his chair. His emotions were conflicting. His entire life he had spent wishing for a family. When he thought Asa was part of the family he missed, he was thrilled. Even when, after only a few trips to the stone house and he realized the man was ‘strange,’ he clung to the fact that he was related to another human. Now he was not sure what to believe. The lab test proved he had a mother who was alive, at least when the samples were taken and that it was recent. Was she a willing participant of Asa’s evil or was she being held against her will, hypnotized as the many people he witnessed in the mountains were.
Tormented by the images flashing through his mind, Jacks paced the office floor as if the more steps he took the less pain he would feel. What to do now? He questioned himself but had no answer. When evening came and he was leaving, he still had no answer. After talking way into the night with Honey, he was only sure that he wanted her to be safe and no matter what, she was his primary concern.
It was Friday when they returned home. It was going to feel good to sleep in their own bed and Jacks had to admit that it was the home he never had growing up and Honey was his family. All that was lacking was children, a bunch of them.
“You know Honey, I never saw me like this. Married, with a wife I truly adore and believing in something I never dreamed I would believe in. That Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh and He died so that I may have everlasting life with Him. I never saw me as a Christian, period. Now look at me!”
Honey smiled,
“You and me both!”
“There is one other thing that would make me even happier.”
“And, that is?”
“Lots of kids.”
“It is not like we’re not trying, silly. Sometimes these things take time.”
“It has been four months already. Look at Dwight and Sheila. They got pregnant right away! Maybe I will not be able to have children.”
Honey maneuvered around to where she could see his face, a worried look on her own. They had discussed this and both agreed they wanted children.
“Darling is this about the lab results?”
“No…well maybe it is. I have just been thinking that if this woman does exist, and I stress the if , then she has survived all these years and if I interfere, I may be putting her at risk. I figure if I leave her alone then I am no worse off than I ever was, actually I am better off because now I have you!”
“You are not going to respond to Asa on this?”
“I am thinking not.”
“Hmmm.”
Honey sighed, though she would have liked it to be a sigh of relief, she felt none. There was an old saying around the country she felt was true…’this dog will come back to bite’…and she was afraid this was one of those dogs. For now though, she wanted to be of comfort to her husband and take his mind off anything dreary so she teased,
“Want to try for that baby again?”
Laughing, he was quick to respond, accepting her offer enthusiastically.
8
“ W atch yourself there Frank!”
Cranford’s husky voice warned as they were moving down an ally way and Frank had stumbled and almost fell. Cranford’s body was so close that he fell against him instead.
“You okay?”
Frank muttered an affirmative answer and kept moving. A tip had come into the office that there was going to be some sort of activity going on in an old empty warehouse on Forty-Four and Twenty-Ninth Street. They were going to find a good place to wait until the allotted time.
After talking to her, Jacks hung the phone up and sat back in his chair. His emotions were conflicting. His entire life he had spent wishing for a family. When he thought Asa was part of the family he missed, he was thrilled. Even when, after only a few trips to the stone house and he realized the man was ‘strange,’ he clung to the fact that he was related to another human. Now he was not sure what to believe. The lab test proved he had a mother who was alive, at least when the samples were taken and that it was recent. Was she a willing participant of Asa’s evil or was she being held against her will, hypnotized as the many people he witnessed in the mountains were.
Tormented by the images flashing through his mind, Jacks paced the office floor as if the more steps he took the less pain he would feel. What to do now? He questioned himself but had no answer. When evening came and he was leaving, he still had no answer. After talking way into the night with Honey, he was only sure that he wanted her to be safe and no matter what, she was his primary concern.
It was Friday when they returned home. It was going to feel good to sleep in their own bed and Jacks had to admit that it was the home he never had growing up and Honey was his family. All that was lacking was children, a bunch of them.
“You know Honey, I never saw me like this. Married, with a wife I truly adore and believing in something I never dreamed I would believe in. That Jesus Christ is God come in the flesh and He died so that I may have everlasting life with Him. I never saw me as a Christian, period. Now look at me!”
Honey smiled,
“You and me both!”
“There is one other thing that would make me even happier.”
“And, that is?”
“Lots of kids.”
“It is not like we’re not trying, silly. Sometimes these things take time.”
“It has been four months already. Look at Dwight and Sheila. They got pregnant right away! Maybe I will not be able to have children.”
Honey maneuvered around to where she could see his face, a worried look on her own. They had discussed this and both agreed they wanted children.
“Darling is this about the lab results?”
“No…well maybe it is. I have just been thinking that if this woman does exist, and I stress the if , then she has survived all these years and if I interfere, I may be putting her at risk. I figure if I leave her alone then I am no worse off than I ever was, actually I am better off because now I have you!”
“You are not going to respond to Asa on this?”
“I am thinking not.”
“Hmmm.”
Honey sighed, though she would have liked it to be a sigh of relief, she felt none. There was an old saying around the country she felt was true…’this dog will come back to bite’…and she was afraid this was one of those dogs. For now though, she wanted to be of comfort to her husband and take his mind off anything dreary so she teased,
“Want to try for that baby again?”
Laughing, he was quick to respond, accepting her offer enthusiastically.
8
“ W atch yourself there Frank!”
Cranford’s husky voice warned as they were moving down an ally way and Frank had stumbled and almost fell. Cranford’s body was so close that he fell against him instead.
“You okay?”
Frank muttered an affirmative answer and kept moving. A tip had come into the office that there was going to be some sort of activity going on in an old empty warehouse on Forty-Four and Twenty-Ninth Street. They were going to find a good place to wait until the allotted time.
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