A Family for Gracie by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Zebra Books
Published: 2019-05-27T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Gracie stared into the darkness over her bed until her eyes watered. No matter how hard she looked, she could not make out the ceiling. What she was going to do if the baby woke up was anyone’s guess. She couldn’t see three inches in front of her face.

She would have to talk to Matthew tomorrow about installing some battery-operated touch lights around the room for nighttime changings and feedings. And she wondered what they had done before. She supposed he had left the door open and the small lights spaced down the hallway would have given some illumination. Then again, they were operated by motion-sensor and would only come on if someone walked in front of them. She supposed that they would have stayed on long enough for him to find his way across the room and pick the baby up from the crib. So what had he used to make his way out of the room?

Hmmm . . .

Or maybe he slept with the baby in his bed.

She shook her head at herself. First of all, that was such an Englisch thing to do. She didn’t know of any Amish couples who allowed their babies to sleep with them. She supposed there had to be a few, but none that she knew about. And secondly, she couldn’t imagine big ol’ grumpy Matthew Byler allowing such a tiny creature to rest next to him. Wouldn’t he worry about rolling over on her? And what about all that screaming she did whenever he was around? Gracie couldn’t imagine having a nonstop crying baby, much less a nonstop crying baby right next to her in bed.

Maybe that was why he left the room dark: so Baby Grace didn’t see him coming. Maybe he used the sneak attack method to console her at night, swooping in and satisfying whatever need she had before she realized it was him and not her mother.

Gracie supposed that was possible and about as logical as any of her other theories.

But truly, all her rambling thoughts were nothing more than means to keep her mind off the fact that she had heard Matthew go to bed nearly half an hour ago, if she was gauging her time right. Half an hour? Forever? What did it matter when she was in this room and he in another? She looked toward where she knew the door to be. There were no hall lights coming on to indicate that he was headed her way.

She hadn’t known what to expect on her wedding night, but it certainly wasn’t this!

But . . . if she were really being honest with herself, he had warned her. Only here in the cover of darkness did she see his words and actions for what they were.

He had told her that she needed to be close to the baby, so he had stuffed her in here. He had told her that he wanted to get married as soon as possible, while his baby was screaming her head off, inconsolable.

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