An Abundance of Blessings by Carolyne Aarsen

Author:Carolyne Aarsen [Aarsen, Carolyne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-8249-3315-9
Publisher: Guideposts
Published: 2008-10-19T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Can you hurry it up?” Pete shouted from the cab of the tractor he was driving. “I got other things to do.” “Like what?” Sam shouted back. “Go out on the town again tonight to whoop it up?”

Pete swung out of the tractor, pushed his way through the herd of cows milling at the large metal feeder and jumped up on top of the round bale he had just dumped beside the bale Sam was cutting strings on.

“You shouldn’t talk like that. Makes Grandma cry,” Pete retorted.

“Well, what you do makes Grandma cry. Where are you going tonight?”

“None of your business.”

Over the noise of the hungry cows pushing their heads through the bars of the feeder, Sam caught a defensive note in his uncle’s voice.

And then he figured it out.

“Don’t tell me you’re going out on a date with Miss Grienke?” Sam asked as he dug his knife into the strings. Ever since Miss Grienke had given Sam the envelope to pass on to Uncle Pete, he’d been wondering what his uncle was up to.

“Okay, I won’t. But I am and why do you want to know?”

Sam couldn’t help feeling a bit disappointed. Though his uncle’s social life wasn’t his concern, he liked Miss Simons. She’d been a friend of his mother. She was a connection to his past. But he wasn’t going to tell his rough, tough uncle this.

“Just curious,” Sam said with a quick shrug to show Pete that he didn’t care. Much.

“Lisa got me tickets. It’s a night out. I don’t have to pay.” Pete shrugged as he pulled the strings away, almost hitting a curious and hungry cow on the nose. A few of the other cows hung about, steam rising from their bodies, waiting until Pete and Sam were done so they could eat. “What’s not to like about that?”

“Where are you going with her?”

Pete shrugged and hopped into the feeder to help Sam finish cutting. “Some place in Harding. A play, I think.”

“You have to wear a suit, you know,” Sam said, making the words sound ominous.

Pete yanked on a string. “I can do that.”

Sam stopped and turned to his uncle, dropping the whole detective thing and going straight for the information he wanted. “But you and Miss Simons. What happened with that?”

Pete gave the strings an extra hard tug and started rolling them up, his movements jerky, scaring the cows. “We had a disagreement, okay?”

“No. Not okay. Since you started making eyes at Miss Grienke, I’ve got her pushing her brother on me.”

“Lisa says he’s a good kid, just a bit messed up. His parents are talking divorce. That’s why he came out here.”

Though Sam wasn’t best buddies with Adam and though he resented how Miss Grienke had practically pushed them together, Sam couldn’t help feeling sorry for the guy.

Sam had lost his own mom in a car accident and he had no clue where his dad was. He knew what it was like to have the place you saw as home, as sanctuary, torn apart.

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