Bonded with Ezra (Love Unaccounted #3)

by Love Belvin

My specialty is broken people, bringing them to a place where they can experience healthy, long-lasting romantic love. You’re kidding yourself if you think many of my contemporaries would be prepared to take you on. Many of them do the cutesy couples with minor flaws that makes for a plot, and have them live happily ever after. I take on the impossibly companionable, and work on their internal individual issues many would deem irrevocable.”

You said there are things we try to pump life into that God has already expired for our good long ago. Sometimes He goes ahead of us to curse those things that you believe are good for you, but are meant to do harm to you. I could’ve sworn you were sharing your testimony.”

marriage is a journey. You want eternity, not longevity.”

As Pastor Winans sang with his usual moving grace, all I could think about was how little time we truly have with the ones we love. I never saw this coming, had no idea my mother would leave for the other side of glory this soon. There was so much I wanted to give her before she left this side of heaven. She would say I’d given her enough with returning home, settling in a career—or two—and eventually marrying. Still, I knew she deserved more for all the heartache I caused her in my youth, and the neglect she endured recently. Everyone neglected her. I was no better to her than him.

You can’t address what you bury.

“I’ve never been closer to a human being in my life, except for my mother. I don’t have her anymore. I don’t wanna be so dependent on you—”

“But why would she keep that secret? Why not tell me?” “Maybe she didn’t feel it was your burden to carry.” I lay my head back down on the table, needing to rest my neck. “What if she was finally content with where you are in life. The covenant you made with God, without her knowing the details, satisfied her.”