Their Amish Reunion. Lenora Worth

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      “He went in after a trapped calf and, from what the sheriff could put together, he must have fallen and hit his head. They found a deep gash over his left temple. He was knocked out and went underwater. Just a foot or so of water.”

      Jeremiah hit a hand against the fence, causing the old wood to crack. Beth stepped back, shock in her eyes.

      “I’m sorry,” he said in a gravelly whisper, his heart rate accelerating. “I...I had to learn to swim one thousand yards in twenty minutes and to hold my breath for at least two minutes underwater. I mastered scuba diving, underwater demolition and swimming for miles at a time. I could have... I could have saved him.”

      Beth’s expression filled with shock at what he’d blurted out, but she shook her head, a hand on his arm. “You weren’t here, Jeremiah. And even if you had been, the fall caused him to go underwater. No amount of training or ability can change that.”

      “I should have been here,” Jeremiah said, the rage at what he’d done bubbling up inside of him. “I should have been here.”

      He tried to move away but Beth held him still. “If you had been here, you would have been married to Ava Jane, and Jacob would have been somewhere else that day.”

      “Ja,” he said, nodding in a rapid-fire gesture of anger. “Exactly.”

      Then he did pull away, leaving his confused, frightened sister to stare after him.

      If he’d been here, everything would have been different.

      But now that he was back, so many things had changed forever.