Sunday, 14 April 2024

Keeping Faith 3 (Pages 145 - 267)


 SPOILERS!!!

Colin returns from Las Vegas when on the news he sees a crowd of fervent Christians outside his home. As I suspected, Colin intends to demand full custody of Faith.

Tired of the situation and afraid for Faith, Mariah decides to flee. As luck will have it, on the plane bound for Kansas, Ian Fletcher is there. Mariah thinks that he has followed her, but in reality he is travelling to Kansas to see his autistic brother, who lives in a nursing home. Ian has kept Michael a secret. When he sees Mariah and Faith on the plane, he decides to stick to them because deep down he wants to believe that Faith can heal him. Ian manages to persuade Mariah and Faith to stay with him, and they manage to get a place in a camping site which is closed for the season. Mariah is not certain that it is a good idea to be with Ian, and she thinks he is not reliable. 

They stay at the campsite a week, and Ian finally tells Mariah about his brother, and the three of them go to see Michael. Yet, Michael gets very upset, and seeing that Faith has no power over him, Ian gets very upset and tells Mariah and Faith to leave. It is late at night when Ian returns to the bungalow, and Mariah is waiting. He is still upset, and then the attraction that they have felt for each other finally is left in the open, and that night they sleep together. Early in the morning Ian decides to return to the nursing home. Michael is still in bed, and when he wakes him up, Michael talks to him as if nothing was the matter, but then he reverses to his normal self. Ian sees that as a sign, and when he returns to the bungalow, he tells Mariah what happened, and he also tells her about his life: about his rich parents who didn't care for them and died in a plane crash, about going to live with their very pious uncle and aunt, who did nothing to help Michael; how he got custody of his brother and sent him to a proper institution. 

Mariah calls her mother, and she learns that she needs to return as Colin has hired lawyers to demand custody of faith, and fleeing like that would mean that the chances of losing Faith are higher, so she finally returns.

Many people are so keen on studying Faith: the rabbis, the Catholic priests, some other cults... The situation has got out of control, and it is not Mariah's fault. She simply tried to help her daugther by consulting a psychiatrist, and she never intended to get this attention. 

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