The Amish Bachelor's Baby by Jo Ann Brown

Author:Jo Ann Brown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-11-22T16:05:50+00:00

Chapter Ten

Sunday morning dawned with a hint of warmth, a promise winter wouldn’t last forever. Caleb drove his buggy into the busy yard in front of James Streicher’s house. The blacksmith had moved to the community late last summer, and he’d already become an integral part of the district.

Handing his buggy over to Eli Troyer’s nephew, Kyle, who would put Dusty with the rest of the horses in a nearby meadow, Caleb walked to where the other members of the Leit were gathered by the house’s front door.

The women and the men began to divide into two groups as he walked toward them along a narrow path cut into the deep snowbanks. He turned to his left to join the other men, but froze as if the temperature had dropped fifty degrees.

Only his eyes moved as he stared in painful astonishment when Joey, who was in Lyndon’s arms, held up chubby arms to Jeremiah, babbling in excitement. The boppli had never seen Jeremiah before, but was eager for the man to take him. He batted Jeremiah’s face, as he did the Waglers’, and gave a deep chortle that rumbled beneath the conversations around them.

So Joey wasn’t going through a stage where he didn’t like men. He’d been content with Lyndon holding him and gone eagerly to Jeremiah. Yet he screamed in terror when Caleb came near. Had something changed? Caleb wasn’t going to test that before services, so he avoided getting too close to the men and the kind.

Through the service, as he joined others in singing the long hymns and listened to Eli’s sermon and prayed, he couldn’t keep the questions quiet. Why had the little boy had such an instantaneous hatred of him? What could Caleb do to ease the little boy’s fears?

Lord, give me some idea.

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