Her Amish Suitor's Secret by Carrie Lighte

Author:Carrie Lighte
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-10T17:12:40+00:00

Chapter Seven

“I can take the bobbel now, Rose,” Sadie offered after the deacon said grace.

“That’s okay. You probably never get to use both of your hands during your meal.” Rose sniffed the dark, wispy hair on the chubby baby’s head. “She’s so sweet. If she were mine I don’t think I’d ever put her down.”

“You would if you knew how much her windel schtinke,” eight-year-old David said, plugging his nose and waving his hand in front of his face.

“Mind your manners, suh,” Levi reminded the child gently, but everyone else cracked up.

“Talk about schtinke, the other night I had a familye of skunks on my front porch.” Rose delved into the story of how the creatures had blocked her from entering the house. She left out the parts that might be scary, such as why the back door was locked. And the parts that might not reflect well on her and Caleb, merely saying she had to wait a long time until the animals left.

Elizabeth’s eyes were big. “Did they ever kumme back?”

“Neh. Not yet anyway. Caleb put citrus rinds around the haus. Skunks don’t like the smell of citrus.”

“What hypocrites,” Irene joked, and everyone laughed again.

And that was how they passed the evening—with laughter, pleasant conversation and good food. They also squeezed in a game of horseshoes between supper and dessert. Rose was on Caleb’s team, and although they didn’t win, she found she preferred being on his side instead of competing against him, the way she’d done when they’d raced blindfolded.

“You and Caleb ought to pair up for the canoe race in August,” Jaala suggested as she helped Rose serve pie afterward. Sadie and Irene quickly echoed the idea.

“Neh, absolutely not. It wouldn’t be right,” Abram interjected, nearly causing Rose to upset the tray of dessert. Why would he forbid us to pair up?

His wife asked him the same question. “What’s wrong with them being a team?”

“With the lake in their front yard, they have an unfair advantage. They can practice paddling together all the time,” he said.

“Ach! When do they have time? The work here at the camp keeps them running ragged and on Suundaag, the one day when they actually could spend a little leisure time on the lake, you show up to go fishing,” Jaala lectured Abram sternly. But Rose noticed a twinkle in his eye; he’d been teasing. She giggled and glanced at Caleb to see his reaction, but he seemed too preoccupied with his pie to look up.

“I promise I won’t kumme here to fish next week, so you two can practice paddling to your hearts’ content,” Abram said with a wink at Rose.

Relieved the deacon didn’t appear fazed by the idea of Rose and Caleb canoeing together, Rose said, “That’s okay. You’re wilkom anytime. You all are.” She meant it, too. The leit in Serenity Ridge were so warm she already felt as if they were close friends.

In the week that followed, the first blueberries began to ripen, so Rose made haste to pick as many raspberries as she could before she started harvesting the blueberries, too.

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