The Amish Cowboy's Makeover by Adina Senft

Author:Adina Senft [Senft, Adina]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Moonshell Books, Inc.

10

Malena’s heart kicked into a gallop. She could hardly believe his daring at touching her in public. He looked as surprised at himself as she was. But someone had to do something—say something—

He showed her his fingertip.

Frosting.

She let out a breath and chuckled. “Denki.” She must make it look like a joke. He was being playful, that was all. “Mamm says that when I was a baby, I enjoyed my food with my whole face. I guess nothing’s changed.”

“Deborah is like that now,” Rebecca said, her easy tone smoothing the moment over. “It runs in the family.”

“Nothing wrong with enjoying your food,” Alden said. “God provided it for us—I’m sure He knows it shows gratitude.”

“That’s right,” Ruby said, a smile in her quiet voice. “Imagine going to all the trouble of cooking a big meal, and people picking at it and complaining. I wouldn’t want to make your mother feel that way, never mind the Lord.”

“That’s why we say grace, isn’t it?” Noah said. “We say thank you before, and enjoying food is a way to say it during.”

“Some churches say grace again afterward,” Malena added.

“That’s a lot of gratitude,” Cord said, tipping his head back to toss a loaded corn chip into his mouth. “Especially for a bunch of people who just ate at … what was their name?” he asked Zach.

“Bontragers’.”

“You were the one who wanted to come,” Malena reminded him. “Was it what you expected?”

He shook his head. “I didn’t know what to expect. What’s with the girls on one side, boys on the other?”

She lifted a shoulder. “It’s the same in church.”

“But you guys are dating.”

Puzzled, Alden said, “So?”

“I don’t know. You could hold hands under the table. That’s a missed opportunity in my book.”

“We don’t display affection publicly like that,” Noah told him. “If somebody did, they’d get ribbed about it forever.”

“Besides, if we’re singing a hymn, we’re supposed to be thinking about the words and what they mean, not about who’s holding our hand,” Malena said.

“Is that what you do?” Cord’s voice was a silky challenge. “Think about hymns and God and not about Stolzfus here?”

She was not going to let him tarnish those sweet moments of listening to Alden sing. Of being glad that of all the places she could be, she had managed to be right across from him through no planning of her own. As though der Herr had chivvied the two of them gently into place, right where He wanted them.

She lifted her chin. “What I think about in the privacy of my own mind is none of your business.”

He laughed. “Gotcha. Of course you were thinking about your boyfriend. Nobody can be that religious.”

The word seemed to echo in a room gone suddenly silent.

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