An Amish Proposal by Jo Ann Brown

Author:Jo Ann Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The following Saturday, Katie Kay sat between Olivia and Jayden on the rearmost seat of Gemma’s van. As he’d promised the Donnellys, Micah had pounded out the small dent in the front bumper. Only a few dark spots on the bright chrome remained as a reminder of the damage.

She wished she could pay for the chrome paint. She’d seen what the small cans cost at the hardware store. Her plan had been to select one and ask Micah to buy it. She’d reimburse him when she could. That, along with giving Gemma a break, was why she’d gone to the hardware store, but all her plans had gone out the window when she’d seen Daniel Stoltzfus. All she’d thought about then was slipping away without being noticed.

Her heart beat double time whenever she thought of how close discovery had been. If Micah hadn’t assisted her by distracting his twin brother, she wouldn’t have been able to get out of the hardware store unobserved. She was thankful for that.

But her heart pounded harder when she thought about holding hands with Micah in the Donnellys’ kitchen. When they were walking out, she’d been overwhelmed by the intense attraction between them, but the memory of the few times he’d taken her hand then seemed to pale in comparison with the powerful sensations that had swept through her while they sat facing each other.

Today she was also grateful the two kinder had pleaded for her to join them at the back of the van. Their request allowed her to avoid going through the awkward motions of not sitting beside Micah and DJ on the middle bench. She could have insisted on riding in the front with Sean and Gemma, but it would have been crowded with three adults—one of them very pregnant—on the bench seat.

She hoped she wouldn’t get carsick. She had once while riding in the back seat of Vinnie’s car, but he’d been making wild turns from one of Lancaster’s streets to another, laughing when the rear end slid and the tires squealed. He hadn’t wanted to stop until he realized she was serious she was about to throw up. He’d pulled over just in time for her to get out of the car and be sick on the curb.

It didn’t seem to be a problem with Sean behind the wheel. She couldn’t help noticing how much more smoothly he shifted the vehicle than she had. It didn’t bounce like a jackrabbit as it had when she tried to downshift the first few times on the way to Lancaster.

When they arrived almost an hour later at the farm where the harvest festival was being held, traffic was backed up for more than a mile. Ahead of them, cars drove through an open gate into a field past the stone farmhouse and the circular red barn decorated with Pennsylvania Dutch symbols she’d heard called hex signs. She’d been asked about them while she lived in Lancaster, and each time she’d said she didn’t know anything about them.

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