Harlequin Love Inspired Suspense June 2017, Box Set 1 of 2 by Valerie Hansen

Author:Valerie Hansen
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488019272
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

“Darcy?”

There was knocking. Someone was at the door. But Darcy could barely focus. Her head was clouded with sleep.

“Darcy? Time for supper. Everyone is here.”

What? Supper?

The voice had an accent that was both strange and familiar. Where was she? Darcy blinked her eyes open. She was enveloped in darkness. What time was is? She sat up. This was not her bed.

“Darcy? Are you awake?”

It was Hannah. She was at the Millers’ home. In the middle of Amish country. Dressed like she was Amish. She put a hand to her head. Her hair was still pulled tight at the base of her neck.

“Yes, I’m awake. Barely.” She swung her feet around to the floor.

“Let me come in and light the lantern for you,” Hannah offered.

The auburn-haired Amish woman floated across the old wooden floor and grabbed something off the table. Soon the tiny room filled with a soft yellow glow.

“To the left is the bathroom,” she said. “If you’d like to wash up before dinner.”

She turned back to the door but paused before leaving. “Darcy? Are you okay?”

Was she okay?

“I’m fine. I’m just a little disoriented,” Darcy said. “You know how it is after a deep sleep.”

Hannah nodded. “Thomas is here. He has something for you.”

Darcy rubbed her eyes, still foggy from sleep. Thomas. She’d dreamed of him—of his brown eyes and his wide smile. She’d dreamed of his soft, deep voice and the weight of his arm around her shoulder. He had something for her?

Darcy shook her head. She was awake now and remembering everything that had happened over the past few days. She hoped whatever Thomas had was what they needed to end all of this, so that she could go home. She needed to get out of here. Back to her life. Back into her clothes. And away from Thomas and his big brown eyes. Thomas could never be interested in someone Englisch. And she shouldn’t be interested in someone Amish. She didn’t even know how to pray. How could she fall for a person whose whole life revolved around faith? How could that ever work?

It couldn’t.

* * *

“It was in Jesse’s well.” Thomas handed the small wooden box to Darcy. He had stayed behind with her in the Millers’ kitchen so that he could give it to her without so many others around. He had no idea what was inside. Maybe nothing of importance. But the more he had thought about it, the more Thomas had decided that it might not have been a coincidence that Jesse had asked him to come over “to look at the well” at the same time as he’d been expecting Darcy.

Then again, he was probably just overthinking it all in the hope that he would find answers.

“It’s a nice box.” She took it from his hands. “You found it inside Jesse’s well?”

“Ja. I just went by there to turn off the water so the pipes don’t freeze tonight and I remembered that the day I met you, he had asked me to come look at the well.

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