A Love Made New by Kathleen Fuller

Author:Kathleen Fuller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2016-08-01T04:00:00+00:00

Asa held up his hand to the woman behind the cash register. “We’ll be right back.” Then he dashed out the door after Abigail.

He found her walking toward the bank. Why was she upset? He thought things were going well between them. Really well. He had been surprised she’d been so nervous about getting a bank account, but when he saw the amount of money she deposited, he could see why she’d want to make sure it was safe. Her rug business must be doing really well for her to have already made that kind of profit.

Then she’d agreed to lunch, which had surprised him. He thought she’d refuse and want to go back home. He felt like he was making slow progress with her, and to be honest, he was enjoying the ride.

“Abigail, wait.” He jogged toward her, leaping over a small pile of slush in the fast-food parking lot. She didn’t turn around and he put his hand on her arm. “What happened back there?”

“Nix.” She didn’t look at him. “I need to geh home.”

“What about lunch?”

“I told you, I’m not hungry.” As soon as she said the words, her stomach growled, again. Her face pinched in annoyance.

“Yer stomach says something different.”

“Mei stomach needs to shut up,” she muttered. “Asa,” she said on a sigh, “just take me home.”

He peered at her, hearing her voice crack. Then he saw her bottom lip tremble. She whirled around and hurried to the buggy. She didn’t even wait for him as she climbed in. He untethered the horse, and as soon as he got in the buggy, he started to gather the reins—only to see her with her head in her hands.

“Abigail?”

She shook her head, still covering her face. They weren’t going anywhere. The parking lot was empty and Asa had put the buggy shield on this morning to ward off the chilly weather. Since they had relative privacy, he moved close to her. “Tell me what’s wrong, Abigail.”

She lifted her head. She wasn’t crying, but he could see she was trying hard not to. “What’s wrong with me?” she asked.

“Nix,” he said. “There’s nix wrong with you.”

“Then why wasn’t I enough?” She looked at her lap, then spread her hands over her middle. “Maybe the problem is that I was too much.”

He wasn’t sure what that meant, but he could hear the disgust in her voice. “Abigail,” he said tentatively. “Joel was a fool. I already told you that.”

“You said he was an idiot.”

“He’s both. How he could let you get away . . .” Now it was his turn for emotion to catch in his throat. It was an unfamiliar feeling. Even when he’d left Shipshewana he hadn’t felt this tightness closing around his neck. He’d felt anger that he’d lost his job and house in Shipshewana. Guilt when Susanna became ill. All that happened when he didn’t obey God’s clear call to leave everything he had and move back to Birch Creek, when God hadn’t healed Susanna until Asa had given her up.

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