Matchmaking Can Be Murder (An Amish Matchmaker Mystery Book 1) by Amanda Flower

Author:Amanda Flower [Flower, Amanda]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Kensington Books
Published: 2019-12-31T06:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE

I left the Sunbeam Café not long after that. Lois agreed to pick me up at my home at eight the next morning. She wasn’t able to leave the café that day because she was Darcy’s only help. Darcy’s part-time employee would be there the next day, so Lois promised she could slip away.

As I was leaving, Englisch tourists were arriving at the café, and business picked up considerably. I wove around them and ran into a man on the sidewalk.

“Take care there!” a man said, holding me lightly by the arm so that I wouldn’t fall over. I’d scarcely left the café and already I was bumping into people.

“I am so sorry,” I said in a rush. “I should have looked before I came through the door. Are you all right?”

The man dipped and scooped his black felt hat off the sidewalk. “I’m as right as rain, Millie Lapp.”

I jerked back. “Have we met?”

He smoothed his white beard and his blue eyes sparkled behind wire-rimmed glasses. He had long tapered fingers and a ready smile. “I should think so.”

I gasped. “Uriah Schrock! I—I—”

“I haven’t seen you in forty years, not since you threw me over for Kip Fisher. It’s all well and gut. I didn’t stand a chance against him. Everyone loved Kip.”

It was true that everyone loved Kip, but it wasn’t true that I had thrown Uriah over for him. Uriah and I had been friends in school, nothing more than that. We had gone to the same one-room schoolhouse. At that time there hadn’t been many students in the school, so my district combined with several others in order to keep the doors open. Uriah had been from another district. I had thought when we were young that he was sweet on me, but it never entered my mind to look beyond my district for a husband, and it was love at first sight for Kip and me.

These days, Uriah had a beard, a long white beard that was neatly trimmed. So he was married. I was happy to see it. Uriah had been the class clown in our old school, and there were many times when our teacher would tell him that he would never marry because no woman would have the patience for him. I was relieved to see that wasn’t the case.

“And how is your wife?” I asked.

He shook his head. “Gone. I lost my wife about three years ago. She was an amazing woman and gave me five wonderful children. Now I have so many grandchildren and even great grandchildren, I can’t keep up with them all. Most of them live in Shipshewana, Indiana. That’s where my dear wife was from. I went out there for work as a young man and never came back until now. I need to take care of some old affairs here to do with my family in Harvest, and then I will be on my way back to Indiana.

“How many children do you have?” he inquired.

I felt a slight blush color my cheeks.

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