Second Chance Amish Bride by Marta Perry

Author:Marta Perry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Had Caleb tried to talk to Becky about her mother or not? Jessie sat with her sewing basket at her feet that evening, wondering. Somehow she thought not. Caleb’s stoic expression might not reveal his emotions, but Becky would be showing the effects if he’d said anything.

Becky was quiet, for sure, but it was the same quiet that she’d maintained since her bout of crying earlier in the day. Maybe Caleb had had no opportunity to get Becky alone for a serious talk. Or maybe he was avoiding the job, unwilling to open that box of trouble.

Jessie could understand. It was always tempting to pretend that nothing was wrong, sometimes even convincing yourself. After all, she’d convinced herself that she’d done everything she could to keep Alice from coming back here to die. But had she? Had she been able to disentangle her own feelings from what was best for everyone?

And then there was the realization that she and Becky were doing the same thing—blaming themselves for what Alice had done. Becky was clearly wrong. She could have done nothing. Jessie would like to say the same of herself, but she couldn’t quite convince herself.

Life could be like the tangle of thread she’d discovered in her sewing basket—impossible even to find an end to pull.

She could fix the thread with a pair of scissors. The same wasn’t true of relationships among people.

Smoothing out a couple of the fabric squares she’d cut, she started to pin them together for a small quilt. Timothy, deserting his toy barn, came over to see.

“What are you making, Cousin Jessie?” He fingered one of the pieces and narrowly missed pricking himself on a pin. “What will it be?”

“It’ll be a quilt when it’s finished.” She smiled at him. “But it won’t have any pins in it then to stick you.”

“Gut.” He gave a little shiver as if imagining himself wrapped in a quilt with pins. “Can I do it?”

She glanced at Caleb, wondering if he’d object to his son learning to use a needle. But he seemed intent on something he was jotting on a tablet.

“Sure thing. Let me get you some pieces of your own to sew.” She found a couple of scraps and held them together. “The needle goes down through the material and then back up through. Try putting it in right here.”

His little face intent, tongue sticking slightly out of the corner of his mouth, he managed to push the needle through and promptly dropped it so that it hung by the thread. “I did it.”

“Yah, you did. Now keep pulling on the needle until the thread is tight. Next we’ll come back up through the material.” Experience with her small nieces and nephews had taught her that it was too much to expect him to make a complete stitch in one movement.

She took a covert look at Becky and discovered that she was watching them. Good. She was interested. Now to reel her in. “There’s some material here if you’d like to try, Becky.

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