A Rose Revealed (The Amish Farm Trilogy 3) by Gayle Roper

Author:Gayle Roper
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Family Secrets, Amish, Christian, Nurses - Pennsylvania - Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, Lancaster County (Pa.), Fiction, Romance, Lancaster County, Christian Fiction, Nurses, Mystery Fiction, General, Religious, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780736925884
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
Published: 2011-01-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Jake and I sat in the main living room, letting Becky and Sam have some privacy. I kept sniffing and tearing, remembering the look on Becky’s face when she saw Sam. Jake just looked at me, eyebrow raised.

“You have a cold heart,” I accused.

He raised his eyebrow higher and gave me a smoldering look that took my breath.

“Jake,” I sighed, my heart tripping over itself.

Immediately his face altered. “Yes, Rose?” he said very matter-of-factly.

I stared at him, so cool and in control. The man was going to make me crazy.

“A cold heart,” I repeated.

Again he smiled with enough heat to scorch paper. “Me?” He was all innocence.

I had to clear my throat before I could answer. This time I was unemotional enough to please him at his most persnickety, at least on the surface. “Yes, you. You have no sense of the romantic.”

He turned and looked out the window for a few seconds. When he looked back at me, his eyes were dark with longing. “You know that’s not true.”

As I searched for some way to respond that wouldn’t make him withdraw, the front door opened and Esther walked in.

“Where’s Becky?” she said. “Her mother’s asking for her.”

Becky answered the question by appearing in the doorway to Jake’s apartment, Sam right behind her. But Becky didn’t see Esther; her eyes sought her son. She came to me and took the sleeping Trevor. She bent and kissed his brow, his cheek. Then she turned to Sam.

“This is your son,” she said proudly, laying the baby in Sam’s arms.

Sam looked startled. “This is our Trevor? I thought he was Jake and Rose’s baby.”

I turned a fiery red and couldn’t even look in Jake’s direction. Becky looked at me and smiled. “They aren’t married,” she whispered to Sam. She blushed. “But then, neither are we.”

Sam smiled at her, love all over his face. “It’s just a matter of time, sweetheart. We’ll see how fast it can happen in Pennsylvania. I’m not letting anyone take you away from me again, believe me.”

Then he turned his attention to his son, kissing his head, stroking his cheek.

“Becky, he’s beautiful,” he whispered in a choked voice. He looked at her. “You’re beautiful.”

She glowed, and the little family drifted back into Jake’s rooms.

Esther stared after them.

“That was Samuel?” she whispered. She looked unhappy, distressed.

I nodded. “He showed up this morning, looking for Becky. He followed her parents here.”

“But he’s meidung. He shouldn’t be here,” she said, agitated. She had lost all color and appeared ready to weep.

I didn’t know what to do. I understood Esther’s concern, though I thought both the concern and the reason for it extreme, and I certainly didn’t want to add to the emotional struggles she was already having. I also didn’t want to offend Mary and John, who had been nothing but kind to me. However, I wasn’t about to tell Sam to leave.

I turned, as I found myself doing more and more these days, to Jake.

“Esther, look at me,” Jake said, easily taking the problem on his broad shoulders.

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