Embracing Eden by Sandra Aldrich

Author:Sandra Aldrich
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, alcoholism, hope, guilt, faith, kentucky, alcoholics anonymous, amish, moving, disappointment
Publisher: Sandra Aldrich

CHAPTER 34: DRU

Dru spent a restless night. Even a hot bath as she waited for her aunt to return from the lake hadn’t relaxed her. Each time she drifted into sleep, the angry face of the driver of the white truck jolted her awake. She was relieved when she heard her aunt and Sam return from the lake, but she still couldn’t calm down. Finally, she pulled another pillow under her head and stared into the darkness. She was lying like that when the first raindrops hit her window before daybreak.

A little after six, she heard her aunt in the kitchen. Dru grabbed her robe and hurried down the hall to greet her.

Wilma smiled. “How do pancakes sound? That’s what I like on rainy days.”

“Do you think it’ll rain all day?” Dru asked.

“Oh, no,” Wilma said. “I always go by that old saying of ‘Rain starting by seven will quit by eleven.’ We might have to go to church in the rain, but by the time we come home, the skies will be clear.”

Dru stepped to the stove. “I love your sayings, Aunt Wilma. Can I help with breakfast?”

Wilma shook her head. “No, you sit right down there at the table and tell me about your trip to the farm. I sure was glad your car was in the garage when Sam and I came back here for pie last night. Was the place as bad as I had heard?”

Dru nodded. “Sadly, yes. The lane is rutted, boards are off the barn, somebody worked on the front of the house but didn’t put the siding back up, and all that’s left standing of Dad’s workshop are two burned-out walls. But how did you know the condition? Have you been over there?”

Wilma shook her head. “No. I haven’t seen it since the day Harold and I helped your folks pack the truck and head north.”

“Then how did you know what it’s like now?” Dru asked.

“Sam’s brother-in-law was the mailman on that route,” Wilma said. “He told him the first owner cut the trees, which had served as a windbreak for decades, and he told how the next owner never graded the lane. So I just figured the rest of the property had to be in even worse shape now.”

“He still delivering the mail there?” Dru tried to sound casual.

Wilma flipped the first pancake. “No. He retired about four or five years ago. You see the owners while you were over there?”

Oh, yeah. Did I ever! Dru thought. But she answered carefully. “I drove in, turned right around and left. I saw somebody come out of the back door just as I was leaving, but we didn’t talk.”

Change the subject, Dru ordered herself. “So how was your picnic with Sam?”

“We had a good time, but Sam didn’t catch a thing,” Wilma said. “I think he was too nervous about Pastor Morris asking him to lead singing this morning. Pastor told him he’d been so busy studying biblical miracles that he hadn’t thought about songs since Wednesday.

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