Love Bears All Things by Beth Wiseman

Author:Beth Wiseman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2016-09-01T04:00:00+00:00

Jacob walked across the yard to where Hannah was taking clothes from the line.

“Why are you doing clothes on Wednesday?” Everyone knew Monday was wash day.

“We’ve been worried about you, and everything is off schedule.”

Jacob had just seen Hannah and Isaac chatting outside earlier, so hopefully his sister was in a good mood and could help him sort out the mess in his head. He looped his thumbs beneath his suspenders and waited until she’d folded a pair of slacks and laid them in the basket. When she looked up at him, she shook her head.

“What’s that for, the head shaking?”

“Because I know you.” Hannah turned back to the clothes and unpinned a maroon dress from the line.

“What is it you think you know?”

She looked at him. “You don’t want to marry Annie, but you’re going to anyway because everyone wants you to and because it’s the right thing to do.” She laid the dress in the basket on top of the slacks, then stopped and faced Jacob. “I can’t imagine for one minute my life without Isaac, and I’m counting the days until we get married in the fall. He is everything to me. I want to close my eyes at night knowing that Isaac loves me with all his heart, and wake up with him each morning knowing that I feel exactly the same way.”

Jacob frowned. “What makes you think I don’t want that same thing?”

“I’m not saying you don’t want the same thing. But do you have that with Annie?” Hannah took down another pair of slacks from the line.

He was afraid to voice his true feelings, so he kicked at the grass, trying to decide if being truthful with Hannah would make him feel better or worse. “I love Annie. She’s a gut person, probably the best person for me to marry, especially since she’s pregnant.”

“Um, okay . . .” Hannah sounded doubtful.

“When I’m with Annie, I’m not sure I want to be with her forever. When I’m not with her, I miss her.” He shook his head. “It doesn’t make sense. And I’m still not sure that I don’t want to be in the Englisch world. I’m all confused.”

Hannah dropped the pants she was holding, gasped, and then slammed a hand to her mouth.

“What’s wrong with you?” Jacob narrowed his eyebrows, then wiped at his mouth, wondering if something big and green was in his teeth. “What are you looking at?”

Without moving her hand from her mouth, she pointed . . . at his arm.

“What have you done?” Hannah finally edged closer, peeking underneath his short-sleeved shirt, only to jump back so fast you’d have thought the tattoo fired a lightning rod at her.

He rolled his sleeve up so Hannah could see the whole tattoo.

His sister backed up, fell over the laundry basket, and landed in the grass.

“This is my souvenir from Houston,” Jacob crowed.

“Who, who . . .” Hannah sounded like an owl. “Who did that to your arm?”

Jacob stood taller, grinning. “An Englisch man in a tattoo shop.

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