Sisters of the Heart - 03 - Forgiven by Shelley Shepard Gray

Author:Shelley Shepard Gray [Gray, Shelley Shepard]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780061936753
Google: Mhtd5HCMWqsC
Amazon: B003L1ZX02
Goodreads: 6270138
Publisher: Avon Inspire
Published: 2009-08-11T05:00:00+00:00

Sam made the drive from Eli’s home to his college campus in under an hour, which felt like a minor miracle. Sometimes the traffic on I–71 got so congested it reminded him of a colony of ants, with everyone simply marching along.

After parking in his assigned spot, he nodded to a few students he recognized around the central fountain, bypassed the library commons area, and hightailed it into the agricultural building.

However, there was nothing otherworldly about the commotion that greeted him once he walked to his department’s offices.

“Hi, Professor Miller!” Zach, one of his students who worked in the office, called out. “I’m taking a message, but I’ll be off the phone in just one sec.”

“No problem.” Standing in front of Zach’s desk, Sam found that he needed a moment to adjust to the noise and commotion. Phones rang, music blared, and everywhere he looked students were standing in twos and threes and talking as loud as possible.

Once, he used to find the activity and noise energizing. Now, especially after spending the morning with his Amish friends and family, all the noise and lights seemed annoying. Almost unnecessary and distracting from what was really important to him.

With a click, Zach set down the phone. “Sorry”—before Sam could say a word, the student rushed on—“Professor Miller, this place has been going crazy. And you’ve gotten so many messages and papers, there’s hardly an empty inch on your desk.”

“I was only gone a week. I couldn’t have that many messages, surely.”

“You do. Once more, everything’s been slowly falling apart.” Lifting up a stack of slim yellow papers, Zach frowned. “First off, you’ve got about twenty-five messages to return, not to mention all the notes here from students wanting to speak with you.”

“Any reason why?”

“They want to know if you’ve graded their latest quizzes.”

“I haven’t.”

“Don’t tell them that, they’re nervous wrecks,” Zach said, clicking open a screen on his computer.

“I’ll tell the kids they’re going to have to wait a few more days. I’ve had some family commitments.”

That stopped Zach’s fingers. “I’ve never heard you mention your family before.”

“Well, I have one,” he replied wryly.

“I’m sorry how I sounded. It’s just that I’ve never heard you speak of your family. Do they live nearby?”

“About an hour east.”

“Is everything okay?”

“Yes, they um, just needed a hand. A sister of a friend was in the hospital and they needed a translator. And someone to look after her.”

“A translator?”

“Yes. My family is Amish.”

“Amish? Like the old-fashioned people?”

Thinking of how well Eli was juggling spring planting, helping with the Lundy barn, and looking after Caleb by himself, Sam chuckled. “You’d be surprised at how forward thinking they can be.”

“You know what I mean. I mean, don’t they wear hats and white caps and long skirts and ride around in buggies and stuff?”

“Yes.” It made Sam uncomfortable to hear his whole family’s way of life reduced to funny clothes and transportation methods. But, well, that’s part of why he’d always been reluctant to tell people he’d grown up Amish, wasn’t it?

Zach turned completely his way, work forgotten.

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