Hannah's Journey by Anna Schmidt

Author:Anna Schmidt [Schmidt, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9781471325687
Publisher: Chivers
Published: 2011-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Love? Impossible.

Infatuation maybe. But love? What did he know of love? Vague memories of his parents’ deep affection for each other flashed across his mind. He had never really understood how a man and woman could risk such intense feelings. What if one of them died?

What if they both did?

Levi had not been able to get Lily’s comment out of his head ever since returning to his car and trying to concentrate on work instead of Hannah. She would be fine. She was being well cared for and tomorrow, as soon as the train rolled into the last town on the tour, he would make sure she was seen by the local doctor. In the meantime, he had to try and make sense of the bank statement before him.

I am not in love with her.

And even if I were…

As dawn approached, he pushed himself away from his desk and walked out to the observation platform—the very last piece of the long train chugging its way through the night. He caught the scent of freshly plowed fields after a May rain. He saw cows heading out to pasture and farmers driving their tractors along narrow country roads.

The sun wouldn’t be up for hours yet but these men had fields to be planted and cows to be milked. The train entered a tunnel and the blackness engulfed Levi, the cold dampness of the rock walls sending a shiver through him. And when the train emerged at the far end of the tunnel, he saw in the distance the signature silhouette of an Amish buggy leaving a large white farm house surrounded by large willow trees. So many years had passed, but a memory jolted him, the memory of riding just such a buggy on just such a morning as this, and his father passing him the reins. “Take over, son.”

He watched that buggy until it disappeared from sight. And only when he tasted the salt of his tears did Levi realize that he was crying.

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