An Amish Country Treasure 4-Book Boxed Set by Ruth Price

Author:Ruth Price
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Global Grafx Press
Published: 2015-10-20T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

To Brad’s relief, his success with Jemima’s story, and his improved status inspired Delores to spring for slightly more upscale accommodations than Uncle Bob’s Amish Motel.

So at 9 a.m. the next morning, Brad was able to pull the company truck into the parking lot of the Lazy Daze Hotel and Dairy Bar just outside Serenity. It looked like a refurbished chain hotel, because unlike Uncle Bob’s, it boasted a pool with a diving board, a sit down restaurant that served three meals a day, and a small store that sold a wide variety of “wholesome, organic Amish-made dairy products.”

The teenage boy at the desk gave him a room on the second floor, overlooking the pool, and Brad made the weary trudge up a flight of flimsy metal steps. But when he opened the door to his room, he was rewarded with a blast of arctic air, and that indefinable clean hotel aroma that was equal parts guest soap, very faded cigarette smoke and refrigeration.

Brad dumped his gear on the big bed and collapsed face down across it. He lay there for a long while, recovering from his far too early morning.

As he lay there, he began to game out several possible scenarios by which to approach the Duchess. None of them were especially promising, but Delores had given him no choice. He told himself that forethought now, might preserve his teeth later. So—

Scenario Number One: He would drive up to the King’s front door in the company truck in broad daylight, walk up the steps like a civilized man, knock on the front door, and pray that he got the woman of the house. If so, he’d fall on his knees and beg her with tears in his eyes, to let him talk to Jemima.

If he got the red giant—he’d jump into the truck and gun it for parts unknown.

Scenario Number Two. He would park on the edge of the adjoining property, like before, hike across an acre of brambles, jump the fence, and hide in the bushes at the edge of the garden until Jemima came outside.

If she came outside.

Scenario Number Three. He would approach some sympathetic intermediary and beg or bribe them to contact Jemima and make his case for him. This seemed like the best option available, except that he didn’t know anybody in Serenity who also knew Jemima, except for that sadistic geezer at the store who’d sent him on a snipe hunt.

Scenario Number Four. He would mail Jemima a letter, and beg her to meet him. And hope that she: got the letter; got it in time; didn’t ignore it; didn’t show it to anyone else; or send someone else, like her father, to the proposed meeting.

Scenario Number Five. He would call the number she gave him once and hope that somebody happened to be inside while the phone was ringing and that they cared enough to answer the call.

He beat his head against the pillow.

After a while, having failed to think of anything cleverer, he got up and stored his things, turned on the TV, and raided the mini bar.

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