Like a Bee to Honey by Jennifer Beckstrand

Author:Jennifer Beckstrand [Beckstrand, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2016-07-04T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Rose felt like a raccoon trying to sneak into the henhouse. With her heart beating a thousand miles a minute, she peeked around the aisle to spy on Paul Glick. He stood at the counter helping a customer, oblivious to the fact that Rose was trying to work up the courage to go over there and give him a piece of her mind.

Well, not exactly give him a piece of her mind.

After several Saturdays of being lectured to by her grandparents, Rose couldn’t bear to hear Mammi and Dawdi sing Paul Glick’s praises one more time. How could she stand by while they wounded Lily’s feelings with their harsh words?

She had driven the buggy to the Glick Family Amish Market with every intention of going right up to Paul and giving him a talking-to about kindness and revenge and bearing false witness against his neighbors. He must be told that he had no chance to win Lily back and that he must stop trying to convince her grandparents otherwise.

Rose was determined to talk to Paul for Lily’s sake—to put his vindictive lies to rest forever. If that wasn’t bravery, she didn’t know what was. But the minute she had climbed out of her buggy, she had reconsidered. She wasn’t brave enough to give Paul a lecture.

She sidled down the aisle and tried to spy him in the cracks between the shelves. Maybe she could buy a tub of licorice and nicely ask Paul to please stop harassing her family and find another girl to marry.

Rose picked up two tubs of licorice and took two steps toward the end of the aisle before she realized her knees were practically knocking together. Maybe she would simply give Paul a kindly smile and apologize to him for the bad feelings she’d been harboring toward him these last few weeks. Or months. In truth, she’d been harboring bad feelings for Paul for years. Should she apologize for everything? Should she tell him she just wanted him to be happy?

She turned around and tiptoed back to the middle of the aisle, where she returned the licorice to the shelf. She didn’t like licorice. Why had she even thought of licorice? Biting her bottom lip and trying to keep from shaking, she picked up a tub of pretty, pastel-colored mints. Mints were nonthreatening. Who didn’t feel kindly toward their fellow men when they ate pink and yellow mints?

She tiptoed back down the aisle and let out a tiny squeak. Paul Glick was standing at the counter staring in her direction and frowning so hard Rose wondered if he had a stomachache. He’d seen her. There was no turning back. Her throat constricted. She wasn’t going to be able to talk to him, even if she’d wanted to, which she didn’t. All she had to do was buy her cute, friendly mints and go away. It was a start. Aunt Bitsy would be proud of her courage.

Well, not really courage.

Aunt Bitsy would be proud that Rose hadn’t fainted at Glick’s Market—unless of course, Rose did happen to faint.

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