Sadie by Sarah Price

Author:Sarah Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-07-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

“Someone’s here to see you,” Rachel called up the stairs the next morning.

Sadie had been lying down. Even though she hadn’t returned home from the youth picnic until almost ten o’clock at night, she was far from tired. Instead, her mind whirled with thoughts of Frederick.

The previous afternoon, after she had cleared the air about the gossip regarding her and John Rabor, Frederick had barely left her side.

To Sadie, it had felt as if no one else was even there at the picnic. True to her word, she had forgiven—and forgotten—the incident about Frederick believing the idle gossip that she was to marry John Rabor. After all, stranger things sometimes happened. She had only to remind herself once again about her friend Belle marrying Adam Hershberger so suddenly.

Toward the evening, some of the young men had started a bonfire. With the flames stretching to the heavens, several young women began to sing. Sadie joined them, lifting up her voice to praise God. She had many things to be thankful for, Frederick being one of them.

When the embers began to die down, Frederick had whispered to her that he’d like to take her home. She was only too willing to leave the picnic with him.

As Frederick had done after the youth singing two weeks before, he took the longest route, just so they could spend more time together.

And when she finally said goodbye to him on the porch of her father’s house, he had held her hand and stared into her face in silence.

No words were needed.

Now, the following morning, when she heard Rachel call upstairs to her with eagerness in her voice, Sadie knew that Frederick must have come calling! He had said that he wouldn’t be able to see her until the end of the week. He needed to bale hay with his father and then stack it in the barn for the winter. With so much acreage, he wouldn’t finish until Thursday or Friday at the latest.

But today was Sunday. No one worked on Sunday. Surely Frederick had decided that he couldn’t wait that long and had come to visit before his week of hard work began.

Sadie jumped up and immediately straightened her prayer kapp. She didn’t want to appear too excited, so she tried to catch her breath. If Frederick had come calling at the house, her father and stepmother would know of his intentions. And then it was only a matter of time . . .

But she didn’t want to jump too far ahead. For now, she needed to focus on the moment. She pinched her cheeks, hoping she didn’t look pale from not having slept all night. It would do no good for Frederick to realize how much of an effect he had on her.

Satisfied that enough time had passed so that she wouldn’t appear overly anxious, Sadie took a deep breath and exited her room. Slowly she descended the staircase.

But, to Sadie’s surprise, when she emerged at the bottom of the stairs and

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