The Scent of Lilacs
“They’d talked about waiting till the next day, but Aunt Love hadn’t wanted to. She’d said they could pull the car up and shine the lights on the grave site if it got too dark. But it was still light enough to see in spite of the heavy feel to the air as night crept up on them.Jocie’s father stood at the top of the small grave with his Bible open in his hands while the wooden box waited beside the small heap of dirt. Wes had crawled back inside the cave with a flashlight to place the baby’s bone...s on a blanket in the box. Her father had thought to bring the flashlight and the blanket left over from Jocie’s baby days.He had known what to do just the way Wes had said he would. While he’d found the box and got his Bible, he’d sent Tabitha and Jocie out to cut every rose in bloom to take with them. He hadn’t said a thing about the sheriff. At the turnoff he’d pushed the gate open wide enough to drive the car through. He’d straddled the ruts and driven back through the field, slowing to a creep when the bottom of the car scraped against a rock but not stopping.MoreLess
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