Amish Widow's Secret by Samantha Price

Author:Samantha Price [Price, Samantha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samantha Price

Chapter 13

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace,

whose mind is stayed on thee:

because he trusteth in thee.

Isaiah 26:3

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The next day, Cassandra discussed the idea of making pies and selling them and, to her delight, Maud liked the idea. Maud told her there was a larger oven in the barn, which she’d always planned to install in the house. Now there was a good incentive for Max to install the stove, moving it up on his list of things to be done.

In the first two weeks, they decided to try all different varieties of pies to see which ones would prove most popular.

Friday morning came. She wondered how she would explain Jenny’s visit to Reuben. He’d know that Jenny was the community midwife; of course, he would since it was only a small community. But then again, Maud said that she was a friend of hers, so maybe Reuben would think that Jenny was only at the house as a friend of Maud’s.

Cassandra was nervous about meeting the midwife. It wasn't so much about meeting the midwife herself, it was the whole thing of actually giving birth to a child and going through the pain of labor. Meeting with Jenny would make it all the more real. She didn't know if she would be able to do it.

This was the first thing in her life she couldn't change her mind about or get out of. She’d had a history of quitting. She’d grown bored with playing softball and quit even though her friends said they needed her to make up the numbers. She’d changed her mind and put a stop to the contract that would buy them an apartment. It was Jake’s money, but he’d wanted them to buy it together. She’d done the same when they were just about to sign for a small car. Commitments were a big thing and Cassandra didn’t like that feeling of having to do things. Now she was faced with something she couldn’t get out of no matter what. She couldn’t simply change her mind about having a baby.

Yes, she didn’t want to keep this baby, but that wouldn't stop the baby from coming. Cassandra sat on her bed looking straight ahead. For the first time, she realized how stupid she and Jake had been. There was no rewinding the clock, and it didn’t matter that the pregnancy had been an accidental one—that didn't change anything.

She was terrified by the idea of childbirth, but even her parents couldn’t fix this problem for her. The only way to end the nightmare she was in was to go through with it until the end. The girls she worked with at the restaurant had told her what it was like to give birth. It seemed there was no painless way to get through it.

What if she were one of those women whose labor took days from start to finish? She couldn't imagine being in pain for such a long period of time. To top it all off, there was no man to hold her hand throughout the ordeal.

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