A little excerpt from the beginning of the book...
Time stopped as he hugged her closer to his chest. One heart beat steadily as it silently shattered. The other heart that had kept perfect time with his for decades had entered into eternity without him.
“Why, God!” he moaned. “I was supposed to go before her.”
Stop it! Annie’s voice was so
real in his head that he watched her lips to see if she might start breathing
again. I told you that there would be no mourning. We’ll be
together again before long—remember when we were separated while you were in
the military. You’ve got work to do now. So suck it up, Zedekiah, and call the
girls.
They’d talked about this moment for three months and
gotten all the pieces in order. Even though they’d argue about things sometimes,
the plan was in place for the next step, as she called it. And now it was up to
him to make sure that her wishes were carried out. But dear sweet Jesus, he’d never
thought about the pain when he’d have to let her go for good.
He laid her gently on the pillow, laced his darker fingers
with her paler ones, and bent to kiss each knuckle. “Oh, Annie, life without
you isn’t life at all.”
The girls will help, the voice
in his head said sweetly. Now let me go, Zed. You’ve got
things to do.
“I can’t,” he groaned.
He sat with her for half an hour before he made the call
to the doctor, who was also the coroner for the county. When they came to get
her, he accompanied the gurney to the van with his hand on hers.
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