She Shall Be Praised by Ginny Aiken

Author:Ginny Aiken
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction / Romance / Historical / General, Fiction / Historical, Fiction / Romance - Western, Fiction / Christian - Historical, Fiction / Christian - Romance
Publisher: FaithWords
Published: 2014-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Birthing a lamb had never felt like such an intimate experience before. Peter had always recognized the Creator’s hand in all phases of life, but as he’d felt Emma’s presence at his back, as he’d listened to her hushed breathing, as he’d sensed her amazement, he’d viewed an otherwise mundane lambing in a new way.

He’d watched and helped deliver dozens of lambs by now. Usually, it was Colley with her practical, sensible demeanor who kept him company, especially during the touchy ones, as this first-time mama’s birthing had been. Tonight, Emma had brought him a different way of thinking about what he did day after day after day. Pride and humility mingled inside him, contrary though the two emotions were.

As he found himself caught in the web of her tear-filled green gaze, Peter couldn’t help but acknowledge once again the wonder of life. God held it all in His magnificent, all-powerful hands. Even when loss and pain invaded, the Father had a way of bringing hope back into His children’s lives. The trick was in recognizing it when it came.

He let out an odd hiccup of a laugh. Funny how it took a frivolous society miss to remind him of that.

“Thank you.” The roughness in his voice caught him by surprise. Not only that, but he realized unaccustomed dampness had risen to his eyes. Just as had happened to her. He could still see the moisture spiking her eyelashes and making the many shades of green flicker in the lantern’s light. How a woman like Emma could raise within him such a peculiar response to something so familiar, he’d never know. Peter just knew Emma had come into his life like a wild storm, and nothing had felt the same since.

The red-haired storm nodded and gave him a small, tentative smile. Something told him this was the true Emma Crowell, the one few ever saw. The socialite with her fancy airs was a part of her, true, but a part he suspected she’d grown used to displaying over time. This emotional woman, the one who’d held his son close to her side, who’d read to him until they’d both fallen asleep, this one who’d let herself be moved by the simple miracle of new life, was the woman he suspected few ever saw.

Why he should feel so honored by that realization, he also didn’t know.

Oh, yes. Emma Crowell was trouble. Peter feared the danger she posed was greater than that posed by the threat of ruin in the fall.

He couldn’t let himself fall under her spell.

She couldn’t be any further from the kind of woman he needed. He couldn’t let his attention wander toward her any more than it should.

To that end, he shook his head to free himself from the effect she still had on him.

Colley marched into the barn again, destroying the magic of the moment he and his uninvited guest had shared. “Here y’are. Brought ya the warm water and soap, plus the scissors, tincture of iodine, and more clean cloths.

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