Love, Interrupted

After three days of waiting, Levi was crazed with not hearing anything from Dani. He and his mother had talked for hours after sending Debbie on her way. He had told her how he had confessed their sin to Dani and why. He loved her beyond reason and wanted to grow old with her. To make a life like Lu and Eustace had and that kind of love could brook no secrets. She would either accept him or she wouldn’t. He fervently prayed she would as he now understood there could be no other woman for him.

He had cleaned the bunkhouse for hours trying to calm his nerves. When there was nothing left to possibly clean, he sat at the table with a beer in his hand. He had told himself he was going to give Dani all the time she needed to process what he told her, but he suddenly felt a foreboding chill up his spine. He decided he couldn’t, wouldn’t, wait any longer for an answer. Without even cleaning himself up, he got in his old Chevy and headed down the road. He was thinking so hard about what he wa