Chapter 18
“Jasper.”

I watched a spark of recognition pass across her eyes for a moment and then it was gone and she turned to the girl and said, “Dorie, get the soup for Jasper, if you would please and make sure to bring some of the bread that I made this morning too.”

A big man stepped into the room. He had to be over six and a half feet tall if he was an inch, but it wasn’t his height that was solely impressive. The man was built like a bull with corded, bunched up muscles that stretched out the seams of his shirt. His voice sounded like the rush of a blacksmith’s bellows when he spoke, “My name is Eliak. This is my wife Samantha, my daughter Dorie, and my sons Elim, Jash, and Niall.”

Besides the little boy I had seen before, I saw two older and stalwart looking boys standing out in the hallway beyond their father.

“Eliak, this is Jasper,” Samantha said.

When she said my name a similar look of recognition also passed across his features, which caused me to wonder what they knew about me. Had t
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