Courting Her Secret Heart by Mary Davis

Author:Mary Davis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-06-04T16:17:37+00:00

Chapter Eleven

After the visit to the doctor’s, Deborah sat on the porch with her vater. She and her sisters agreed she might have the best chance to convince him to release Mutter’s medical records and get her diagnosed. She could give a fresh perspective. The twins had been Vater’s confidantes and helpers for years. Maybe he would listen to someone else, but she wished Amos was beside her for moral support. “Vater? May I talk to you?” Her twin sisters were right inside, listening, ready to step forward if necessary.

“Of course. Any of you girls can always come to me. I think I know what this is about.”

“You do?”

But he didn’t seem upset. Instead, he looked almost happy. “Amos?”

“Amos?” Just the mention of his name made something happy swirl around inside her despite the current circumstances. “Ne. Why would you say that?” Did her vater know she had feelings for him? How embarrassing.

“I see the way you look at him, and the way he looks at you.”

Amos looked at her in a certain way? The same way she tried not to look at him? She mentally shook her head. Before the conversation had even started, Vater had derailed her. “I don’t want to talk about Amos.” Not that she didn’t enjoy talking about him, but now wasn’t the time. She tamped down her feelings for the kind farmhand. “I want to talk about Mutter.”

Vater’s congenial attitude fell away as he stood and tucked his crutches under his arms. “Mutter is well.” He hobbled down the steps and across the yard.

He obviously didn’t want to talk about the painful subject. He’d shut her down before she’d even started. Should she go after him?

The front door opened. Hannah, Lydia and Miriam stepped out onto the porch.

Deborah faced them. “I’ll go after him and try again.”

Miriam heaved a sigh as though defeated.

Lydia shook her head. “Vater doesn’t want to hear about Mutter.” She sounded defeated, as well.

Hannah planted her hands on her hips. “Well, he’s going to. He can’t ignore this any longer. Come on. We’ll all talk to him. He can’t ignore four of us at once.” Hannah headed toward the barn, where Vater had gone, with Lydia and Miriam on her heels.

Deborah trailed after her three older sisters. Amos had said it wasn’t a gut idea to have them all gang up on Vater at once. “But what about Mutter, Naomi and Sarah?”

“I told Joanna to keep them all in the house.” Hannah strode with determination in her steps.

How much did seventeen-year-old Joanna know? She knew enough to obey Hannah.

Deborah stood shoulder-to-shoulder with her sisters as they entered the barn, having automatically lined up from oldest to youngest. They would be able to speak freely with him out here, where neither the younger girls nor Mutter would hear.

Though they’d told Amos that they would deal with their vater themselves, he was in the barn as normal. Hannah and Lydia didn’t want him involved because Vater had tried to keep this within the family and didn’t want to embarrass him by bringing in an outsider.

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