CHAPTER 17
Ricky walked slowly back to the car. Something had been nagging him since he saw Jillian outside struggling with that barn door.
She was lonely. And who could blame her? After all her family had gone through when her dad was the pastor here, why would she want to come back?
He’d heard his mom on the phone with several of her friends from the Women’s Missionary League this afternoon. Everyone was speculating on what might have compelled that McAllister girl to return to Orchard Grove. The public explanation was she’d come to help take care of her grandmother, but other than a short hospital stay last December, Grandma Lucy was in perfectly fine health.
So the rest was a whole lot of conjecture that would have made Ricky embarrassed for Jillian even if they’d never met before.
