Benjamin (Seven Sons Book 2) by Amelia Adams & Kirsten Osbourne

Author:Amelia Adams & Kirsten Osbourne [Adams, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2017-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Melissa was so furious, she almost couldn’t see. Blood pounded behind her eyes, and her breath came in short spurts as she stomped down the road. She was throwing a tantrum and she knew it, but she had no reason to sit there calmly and allow that man to spin his wild stories and try to suck her into his crazy little world. She didn’t owe him anything. Sure, he brought her pumpkins back to life, but that didn’t mean she had to marry him. How messed up would that be?

They hadn’t driven far before Benjamin pulled over, so she didn’t have far to walk before she was back on her own property. She heaved a sigh of relief as she approached the pumpkin stand. She felt safe here. Maybe she’d never leave home again. She’d become a reclusive pumpkin lady and take in cats and learn how to mull cider. Mulling cider always sounded weird to her, like she was supposed to think about the cider really, really hard, but she realized that would be mulling over cider, and she needed a nap after everything she’d just been through.

“You’re back already? And you’re walking?” Her father looked up from the money he’d been organizing in the box. “What happened?”

“I’ll tell you later—I need a little time to process it first.” She glanced around. “You sold quite a few while I was gone.”

“We did, but listen—there’s something strange happening here. Mike cleared out that whole last row of pumpkins, right? We were moving from the back of the patch to the front?”

“Yes. What’s the matter?”

Her dad shook his head. “It’s so crazy, you won’t believe it. He got every pumpkin on that last row, and then he went back to start clearing the second row. But the first row had more pumpkins on it—all the vines have produced more since this morning.”

“What?” Melissa shook her head and walked into the patch, her father next to her.

“I know—it’s crazy. Mike swears he’s not mistaken—he knows he had that row entirely clear.”

When they reached that row, Melissa stood at the head of it and stared down the length. Probably forty pumpkins grew from those vines, each one round and brilliant and beautiful. Benjamin had done this—that was the only explanation. But when? Did he do it just now as some sort of bid to get her attention?

“How long ago was Mike back here?” she asked her dad.

“He came and told me about it right after you left,” he replied.

Okay. She could live with that. Just so long as he wasn’t still reaching onto her property to talk to her stuff and interfere where he wasn’t wanted.

***

“It was ugly. I can’t even tell you how ugly it was.”

Caleb shook his head. “Sorry about that, bro. It’s not the easiest story to tell, though—I wouldn’t know how to do it gently.”

Benjamin laid his arms on the top rail of the fence as they waited for the school bus. “At least she believes me about my gift.

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