Just Plain Sadie by Amy Lillard

Author:Amy Lillard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Zebra
Published: 2016-03-29T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen

Was she willing to give up her church for Ezra Hein?

The words haunted her on her way back home. And the worst part of it all? She didn’t know. Didn’t even want to think about it. Didn’t want that hanging like a cloud over her time with Ezra. If they continued to see each other, fell in love, and wanted to join their lives, surely they could find a solution to that problem. It wasn’t anything she should have to decide for herself.

Mind made up, she unhitched her horse and thought only about her upcoming date with Ezra.

* * *

She called Ezra Thursday afternoon. He answered on the first ring, his voice breathless as if he had hurried to answer it. She knew that was silly. He’d most likely had it in his pocket. But she liked to think of him rushing to the phone because he thought it might be her.

“Are we still going out tonight?” She hated to ask because the answer could be no, and her heart wasn’t prepared for that.

“Of course.”

She smiled. “Do me a favor?”

“Anything.”

She felt that hitch in her breath. “Pick me up at the library.”

“The library?” The confusion in his voice was evident.

“It’s just that . . .” She traced the outline of the phone where it hung on the restaurant wall. She had taken a moment to come call him, hoping and praying the whole while that no one would realize who she was talking to. “I think we should keep things low-key. Don’t you agree?”

“Yeah, you’re right. The library it is. Six o’clock?”

“Six o’clock.” She smiled, counting down the minutes until she could see him again.

* * *

Pryor was only about fifteen minutes from both Taylor Creek and Wells Landing. Sadie thought the idea of them going there for dinner was about as brilliant as they could get. Close and yet far enough away that they wouldn’t completely stand out. They could blend in without having to change a thing. And no one there would care about whose church they were going to join and all the other stuff that was giving everyone around them such grief.

She rode beside Ezra all the way there, the anticipation building. Their first real date, not a hangout session with friends, but a real date like she’d heard the Englisch go on. They’d eat, then who knew what they’d do after that. Maybe they could go for a walk or to a movie. The idea was exciting.

The Amish didn’t normally go to movies, but neither did they sneak out to eat dinner with Mennonite boys. What was one more transgression on her record?

Ezra pulled his truck into the large parking lot filled with cars. The restaurant was busy for a Thursday night, but it was one of the most popular in the area. Of course, they didn’t serve traditional home-cooked meals and Amish food like Kauffman’s Family Restaurant did, but they had wonderful steaks and the best pumpernickel bread she had ever tasted.

The hostess seated them and brought water and bread as they looked at the menu.

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