Courting His Amish Wife by Emma Miller

Author:Emma Miller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-13T13:32:33+00:00

Chapter Eight

Levi made good on his promise. The following week, after a light supper of sandwiches and salads, Eve and Levi set out through the orchard alone on another date. The thermometer on the back porch read ninety degrees when they left, but there was a nice breeze and the sun, now low in the sky, felt good on Eve’s face. She hadn’t had a chance all day to get outside except when she’d taken scraps to the chicken house. She and Nettie and Tara had spent hours straightening up a room of the cellar and washing and organizing canning jars in anticipation of putting up tomatoes that were beginning to ripen in the garden.

Swinging a basket on her arm, she glanced up at her husband. There hadn’t been an overnight change in their relationship, but since their talk on the front porch swing, it was evident that Levi was going out of his way to get to know her better. With both of them so busy, it was hard to find time alone that wasn’t in their bedroom, but he was making an effort. The day before, they had walked the long lane together to get the mail and back, talking the whole way. And a few days before that, Levi had taken her with him to the feed mill to pick up grain in a wagon, and they’d stopped for ice cream cones at Byler’s store.

“I didn’t know there was a pond on the property,” Eve said, enjoying the feel of the warm grass under her bare feet as she walked beside Levi. “How did I not know there was a pond?”

He shifted two fishing poles on his shoulder. “I don’t know. I guess it didn’t come up. We’ve got a big piece of property. Dat and Rosemary ended up buying two farms side by side. There was no house on the smaller one, just an old house trailer and some chicken houses that were falling down. We bulldozed those over.”

“How big is the property?” she asked, hoping she wasn’t overstepping her bounds with such personal information about her in-laws. But if she was going to live here, if they were going to make their life together on his father’s property, it was only right she know.

“About three hundred acres.”

The number shocked Eve. Her father owned ten acres and sold meats at a farmers market to make ends meet. “That’s a lot of land,” she murmured.

He shrugged. “Not something we advertise.”

Obviously, she thought. To talk about owning such a vast piece of property, with no mortgage, would be hochmut...arrogant. Prideful, in the wrong way.

“Dat and Rosemary both sold their farms in upstate New York to buy it,” Levi continued. “They were set on having enough land to go around so that any of their children who wanted to make homes here could.”

Eve turned that information over in her head thoughtfully. It seemed like a vast amount of land, especially here in Delaware, where most of the farms were smaller than the ones in the Lancaster area.

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