Sarah Sunshine: A Montana Romance Novella by Farmer Merry

Author:Farmer, Merry [Farmer, Merry]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2013-08-12T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Sarah sat cross-legged on the bed in one of Mr. Bell’s handsome second-floor guest rooms, her back against the wall. She had the Bible Miss Jones had given her open on her lap and the school reader Rev. Andrews had loaned her spread on the coverlet to her side. Between the kindness of Mr. Bell and the generosity of Rev. Andrews, she should’ve been happy. It was Miss Jones that continued to be the pickle in her pudding.

Sarah stretched her neck, rolled her shoulders, and focused on her Bible. Miss Jones had assigned her to read the story in the gospel of John about the woman caught in adultery, stressing how wicked the woman was. All Sarah could see as she read was how Jesus had told the woman to go and sin no more. Either she was missing the point or Miss Jones was. Neither possibility eased the gloom that hung over her like a cloud.

She sighed, tugging her ruined shawl up her shoulders. Nothing was working out the way she’d planned. Mr. Sutcliffe wasn’t at all happy that she’d followed his wishes to seek Miss Jones’s help. Folks weren’t saying good morning to her the way they used to. Worst of all, Roy’d lost the smile he always wore when she was around. She refused to give up and go back to the life she’d known, but she hadn’t expected things to be so hard.

She squirmed to sit straighter against the wall, turning pages in her Bible to find the Christmas story to cheer herself up.

A tap at the window shot her heart to her throat. She froze. The tap came again. She gasped and set her Bible aside, scrambling off the bed and creeping towards the window. The curtains were shut, but she could see a shape through the crack. There was enough light to make out an eye, a nose, and the curve of a cheek in the night.

“Roy!”

She leapt the rest of the way across the room and threw open the curtains. There he was, right outside her second-floor window, smiling. She grabbed the window and pushed it open.

“Roy LaCroix, what in heaven’s name are you doing?”

He had a ladder propped against the side of the house, the top resting precariously against the ledge outside her window. “I had to talk to you,” he said.

“But it’s the middle of the night!”

“That don’t matter to me.”

“It’s dangerous climbing a ladder to someone’s room.” She stuck her head out into the cold night air and looked up and down the dark alley behind the house. It was deserted.

“I’d walk through fire to reach you if I had to, Sunshine.”

Sweet affection pushed the shock clean out of Sarah’s chest. She smiled, feeling warm all over in spite of the frigid night air blowing into the room. “You’d best come out of that cold before you hurt yourself.”

Roy nodded and climbed the last few rungs of his ladder. He gripped the sides of the window frame, stuck a leg into the room, and hauled himself in.

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