Sarah Anne's Faithful Friends (Unshakable Faith Book 4) by Cathy Lynn Bryant & Jessica Marie Dorman

Author:Cathy Lynn Bryant & Jessica Marie Dorman [Bryant, Cathy Lynn]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Bryant Dorman Books
Published: 2016-07-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 24

Early the next morning, Mr. Hoyt found Sarah alone in the kitchen preparing breakfast. He loved the way her face always displayed great joy at seeing him. Thinking this a good time, with the boys—their uncle along—out in the barn doing chores, and Daniel having been called out, he began with a question. Leaning his back against the counter next to Sarah, he asked, “Sarah, you appeared troubled last night during the evening meal. Is there anything you wish to talk about? You must know that you may speak to me about anything.”

Looking away, she continued preparing the food as though she hadn’t heard him. “I am sure the boys will be quite ready to eat when they come in. I best finish this. May I get you something whilst you wait? Some bread perhaps?”

Mr. Hoyt would not be put off. He decided to be more direct. “Sarah, it is quite apparent that something is troubling you.”

She could not fool Mr. Hoyt, who seemed to read her as easily as her father always had. “It’s nothing, only a bit of trouble sleeping.”

“Is there any particular reason you are unable to rest?”

“I believe it may be the heat. It has been rather warm lately.”

“Spring has scarcely begun. I have yet to see a day one would describe as warm. Are you certain it is heat that has been stealing your sleep?”

Sarah was ready for this conversation to end. “Mr. Hoyt, you needn’t worry about me. As you see, I am in good health.”

Seeing that he was not getting anywhere, the older man said, “Very well, Sarah, but you know you are welcome to come to me with any problem.”

Nodding, she continued on with her work, never looking in his direction for fear he would discover that she had been untruthful.

Late in the afternoon, when Daniel was away and the boys had gone on a walk with their grandfather, Sarah, to her dismay, found herself alone in the house with George. How she had let that happen, she could not say. While kicking herself for not going with her husband, she tried her best to avoid eye contact with the hateful man.

George watched with delight as Sarah did her best to avoid him. While following her from room to room and taunting her at every opportunity, he observed her hands shaking with each task. Thinking this may be his only chance to continue on with his plan for chasing her from the home, he did not waste a moment.

“In watching you and Father, as it is with everyone else, I see that you have him under your spell.”

While silently praying the boys and their grandfather would soon return, she endeavored to ignore the spiteful words that were being spewed at her.

“Did you not hear me? Even if no one else in my family understands the kind of woman you are, I, for one, certainly grasp your true nature.”

Mr. Hoyt and the boys returned to find that Sarah had laid out food for them before going to take a rest.

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