A Groom for Greta (Amish Brides of Celery Fields) by Schmidt Anna

Author:Schmidt, Anna [Schmidt, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Love Inspired
Published: 2012-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

As Luke watched Greta and Josef it occurred to him that he might just be walking right into the situation that had gotten his heart broken back in Ontario. It occurred to him that Greta Goodloe might have agreed to Lydia’s idea to make Josef jealous. If that was her plan then it appeared to be working. Josef Bontrager had been unable to take his eyes off Greta all through the lunch break in spite of Esther Yoder and her mother hovering around him, making sure that he had second helpings and a large piece of shoofly pie. By late afternoon the man had clearly found his courage to approach Greta.

Luke was not given to jumping to conclusions. He reminded himself that he had no knowledge of the conversation that had passed between Greta and Josef. As he set in place the large heavy-notched beams that formed the support for the roof for his business, he went over every detail of what he had observed. Josef’s approach. Greta’s polite smile—or had that smile been one of expectation? Did she still have feelings for the man? How could she not? It had been less than a week since their break.

He was a fool on a fool’s mission. Perhaps God did not intend for him to marry at all. Certainly the signs pointed toward that. The business in Ontario. Lydia’s outright refusal to even consider a courtship. Had he become so desperate to marry that he had fallen into the trap once again of being someone’s pawn in a game he did not wish to play? Was Greta’s intention to use him to win back Josef?

“Well, we’ll just see about that,” he grumbled to himself as he dropped the last beam into place and signaled to Roger Hadwell at the other end of the log that it was secure. He scrambled down the scaffolding and stood with the rest of the crew to consider the day’s work. The frame was in place for the building and the roof. Where that morning there had been nothing but barren ground, there now rose a skeleton of fresh-hewn wood and the men standing around him had done it all.

“I’d say that’s a good day’s work, Luke,” one of his customers from Sarasota announced. “By the end of next week at this rate I expect you’ll be in business.” The man clapped Luke on the back as he and his friends headed for their trucks and drove away.

Luke glanced toward the Goodloe house and saw Lydia coming home from her day at school. He wanted to thank her for letting the older boys come help with the work but he knew approaching her now would cause tongues to wag. Everyone assumed that they were courting—that much was evident by the sly comments some of the other men had made in his presence throughout the day. He saw Lydia pause for a moment and gaze at the structure. She called out something to the cluster of men nearest to her and kept on walking.

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