A Summer Amish Courtship and Amish Reckoning by Emma Miller

Author:Emma Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-06-01T18:02:35+00:00

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They weren’t even out of the lane and Gail was already missing Elam. When he’d announced someone else was taking over his horse-trading business, she’d been expecting an Amish man like him. One wearing a gray beard of some length, indicating he’d been married for years. Slightly homely. Shorter than she was. Sweet. Not charming. Not attractive.

This one made the Ram’s cab feel like it had shrunk to the size of a fifty-five-gallon drum, and all the air had been sucked out of it. He made her feel small. And female.

A betraying warmth started in her cheeks and journeyed from there down to her toes in her worn work boots. The long-sleeve shirt she’d donned due to the cool morning now stuck to her flushed skin. Slanting a look at her passenger, she resented that he was so attractive he made her sweat. She cracked the driver’s window, causing her ponytail to flutter in the breeze. Bonnie’s air-conditioning system had been finicky lately. Gail didn’t want to push her luck with it now when she’d need it later in the heat of the afternoon. She prayed that the old pickup wouldn’t leave them sweltering.

“Gonna be a warm one today.” Her passenger’s rich baritone rolled through the cab.

His alluring voice was as disconcerting as his appearance. Gail clicked on the radio. Pop music blasted over the rumble of the engine and the wind’s rush through the window, making it difficult to hear. Therefore, difficult to talk. All the better.

They were both slung forward against their seat belts when she braked hard at the stop sign to the highway. It was a good thing there were no horses in the trailer yet. They’d have been knocked off their feet and possibly injured. The thought churned her stomach.

She smoothly pulled onto the pavement. Get a grip, Gail. Or you won’t have to worry about how much you don’t want to be around him. He’ll take his business elsewhere, and then where will you be?

Not in a good place. More broke than she was now. She needed this job. She’d been sick with worry when Elam announced he was retiring. The Amish hauls were critical in helping extremely frayed ends meet, especially with fall and the closing of the track for the winter approaching. Gail had already missed one payment on the truck and trailer when the Amish hauls stopped during the business transition. If she missed another payment, she’d lose her rig. The only jobs available to her with an eighth-grade education—waitressing, clerking and other part-time jobs—would barely support her.

On her own, she might be able to survive, but not with Lily. Gail had worked too hard to make it this far. No charming young Amish man, too attractive for his broad-fall britches, was going to upend her life.

Again.

Since he was her customer, a desperately needed one, Gail tipped her head toward the dash and raised her voice to be heard over the chirpy female one coming through the speakers. “Do

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