Spinning Out Of Control by Vickie McDonough

Author:Vickie McDonough
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2012-12-10T05:00:00+00:00

Ten

Happy to be away from the hot, steaming washing pot, Amy tossed Micah’s freshly rinsed blue cotton shirt over the rope and straightened it. Beth trotted back and forth underneath the clothing strung out on the line between two trees. She neighed like a horse and waved her hands in the air.

“Look at me. I’m a horsie.”

Amy smiled as Beth pretended to rear and then pranced off toward where Sookie sat under a tree, nursing Missy. Her heart pinged. What would it feel like to hug a baby to my bosom and nurse it? To have a child totally dependent on me for life? My own child?

Amy shook her head to force away the gripping thought. Unlike most women her age, she’d never before wondered what it would be like to be a mother. To have a child, she had to have a husband, and she’d never wanted that before.

Her gaze traveled back to Sookie. In a way, the young woman was lucky, but then again, she had lost her own child. Was it difficult for her to wet-nurse little Missy?

Sookie rarely spoke, except to Jonah. She went about her chores, content to hum and do her work, but she preferred not to socialize with Amy. That was a big disappointment. Amy had hoped they might become friends, but that was probably a foolish thought. On the other hand, Micah and Jonah seemed quite friendly with each other.

Shaking out Ben’s shirt, she stared off into the distance, reveling in the happiness she’d found at the Walsh farm. Back home, she’d been happy when her mother was alive, though there was always the cloud of fear that her father would return and hurt her mother. Horatio Rogers had never hit his daughter, but Amy had grown up frightened of him and most other men.

She reached for Micah’s spare long johns. At first, she’d been terribly embarrassed to look upon and handle the men’s undergarments, but now it no longer bothered her. They were just clothes that needed laundering.

Spreading out the undergarment on the line, she considered how contented she’d grown. But how long could things continue as they had? She and Micah had settled into a comfortable rapport, though they didn’t spend much time together. Micah was so busy with the farm that he was rarely around except for meals and the girls’ bedtime.

She figured at some point Micah would want to remarry, and then where would she be? The cabin was far too small for another person. Already, she and Sookie shared a bed, having long ago tossed out the mat Sookie had first used for sleeping. Amy had no idea where Missy would sleep once she outgrew her crib. Beth’s tiny bed was too small for both children.

Amy’s thoughts turned to Ben. She worried about him. He seemed so tired lately, often nearly falling asleep at the dinner table. She hoped he wasn’t sick. He’d become the brother she never had, and he had settled down quite a bit since Micah’s return.

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