Sadie: Romancing the Weavers, Book 17 by Morgan Kit

Author:Morgan, Kit
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Angel Creek Press
Published: 2021-12-22T00:00:00+00:00

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The next morning Sadie worked on her dress. They’d brought home Lucy’s gingerbread house, and she wondered if her sister would let anyone start eating it. She’d caught Pa in the act just after breakfast, ingesting part of the chimney, but she left shortly afterward and wondered if Lucy had noticed yet. Or cared.

“What’s on your mind, child?” Granny Mary asked.

Sadie looked up from her work and glanced around the room. She hadn’t heard her grandmother come in. “Just finishing this dress.” She was currently working on a sleeve. “It’s coming along.”

“That’s good. Anything else?”

“What do you mean?”

Granny went to another machine and sat. “You haven’t been yourself lately.”

Tears stung Sadie’s eyes and she willed them away. Sadness had hung over her like a cloud today and she hated it, but didn’t know how to get rid of it. Maybe a chat with Granny Mary would help. “How do you know when you’re in love? I mean really in love?”

Granny Mary smiled. “Oh, is that it? Well, if you want something like your Ma and Pa have, all you have to do is watch them a spell and you’ll see it.”

“But they’ve been married for … decades. What about when they first got married?”

“Your ma was a mail-order bride. She became one to escape her uncle – a sick man, that one. Naturally she didn’t fall in love right away.”

“I know the story,” she said. “Do you remember when they did fall in love?”

Granny smiled. “Well, I reckon before the whole Olivia Bridger incident.”

“Olivia … oh, yes, Ma told me about her. The lady that spent Christmas on the farm and ended up marrying Mr. Johnson’s uncle George.”

“Yep. She and your ma didn’t get on when they first met years before that. Thank Heaven the good Lord changes people. A plumb miracle – and a good clunk on the head – got Olivia straightened out.”

“Ma was jealous?”

“Of course. That’s one way to figure out if you’re in love.” Granny Mary smiled. “So, who’s the lucky fella?”

Her cheeks heated. “I’m not talking about me particularly. Lucy and Brandon worked on a gingerbread house together.”

“And was your sister calf-eyed by the end of that?”

Sadie thought of the looks Phoebe gave Taylor when they left. Someone was, all right, but not her sister. “Not exactly.”

“Well, then that poor Wyndham boy will have to wait until she takes some interest in him.”

“What if she never does?”

Granny dug around in a basket full of thread spools. “She’ll set her cap for someone else, I guess.”

“But Granny, there isn’t anybody else.”

Granny pulled out a spool and smiled. “He’s got a brother, doesn’t he?”

Ouch. Sadie winced. “Yeah.”

“Maybe she’ll show some interest in him.” Granny pulled out another spool. “What about you? I thought you had your cap set for one of them.”

Sadie noticed Granny wasn’t wearing her spectacles. Come to think, neither she nor Grandpa Harlan had worn them for over a year now.

“Well?” Granny asked. “Did you change your mind about the young man?”

Sadie hung her head.

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