The Amish Christmas Matchmaker by Vannetta Chapman

Author:Vannetta Chapman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-07-10T14:45:36+00:00

Chapter Ten

Annie sat in the waiting room of the Goshen Medical Center. It wasn’t her first time there. Over the years, they’d visited the facility whenever someone in their congregation was ill. Now Amish folks from their church filled the waiting room, a testament to how many lives Old Simon had touched.

“Still no word from Levi?” Nicole asked.

“Nein, and I can’t believe you’re here. Shouldn’t you be home resting?”

“I’m pregnant, not sick.”

“But the kids...”

“Mamm was happy to stay with them. She wanted me to come and sit with you.”

Annie resisted the urge to roll her eyes.

“Someone needed to bring you home if Levi decides to stay.”

“This room is full of people from our church. I think I could have found a ride home.” The words came out snippier than she’d intended, so she bumped her schweschder’s shoulder and added, “But thanks for coming. I appreciate it.”

She felt as if her emotions had been through a clothes wringer. She wasn’t sure what she was feeling, and her mind kept returning to Levi.

To the look on his face when the bishop had first told them Old Simon was ill.

His profile as he drove the buggy toward the hospital.

The way he’d reached out for her hand as they’d hurried toward the emergency room entrance.

She’d sat with him for two hours as the waiting room had slowly filled with people from their congregation, everyone eager to hear an update on Old Simon’s condition. The only thing anyone knew was that a neighbor had found him collapsed in the kitchen when they stopped by to deliver fresh eggs.

“He was fine when I left him,” Levi had insisted when they’d first sat down onto two plastic chairs. He picked up a magazine from the table which he continually rolled and unrolled in a tube.

Annie was certain it would never be flat again, but she didn’t have the heart to correct him. Perhaps it was one reason they put the magazines there, so people would have something to do with their nervous energy.

An hour later, one of the doctors called him back to Old Simon’s room.

“I’m surprised they let him go in to visit.” Nicole had brought her knitting bag and proceeded to work on a baby blanket—yellow with blue-and-pink flowers. “You know how strict they are about only allowing family to see a patient.”

“Levi has been in contact with Old Simon’s eldest son, even before he moved here. He wanted to make sure it was all right for him to do so. He didn’t want anyone thinking he was taking advantage of Simon.”

“I didn’t realize that. It was thoughtful of him to reach out that way.”

“As soon as we arrived here at the hospital, he called Jonah, who gave the doctors permission to speak with Levi.”

They waited another thirty minutes, the clock creeping past midnight. Somewhere around one in the morning, Levi came out, spoke quietly to Bishop Marcus and then sat down next to Annie.

Marcus raised a hand to quiet everyone. “Levi has met with the doctors, spoken on the phone with Jonah, and he’s visited with Old Simon.

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