The Amish of Elkhart County (The Complete Amish of Elkhart County Collection) by Daisy Fields

Author:Daisy Fields
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: inspirational romance, christian romance, amish, orphans, christmas romance, amish romance, christmas fiction, sarah price, amish christmas fiction, amish christmas romance
Publisher: Daisy Fields

Delivered From Doubt

(The Amish of Elkhart County #3)

By Daisy Fields

Copyright 2013 Daisy Fields

All Rights Reserved

In shock, Mary rubbed her eyes. That was impossible. She could not have conjured him merely by thinking of him. Yet when she opened them again, there he was. There, on her porch, clear as the sky above and dressed as a good Amish man—but minus the beard—stood Daniel. His green eyes glinted from beneath his wide-brimmed hat.

He opened his arms, the corded muscles straining against his shirtsleeves. “My Mary-Mary,” he exulted, “I found you.”

Mary’s mouth opened slightly, but nothing came out. A tornado roared in her chest as joy and disbelief and anger all vied for supremacy. Her hands, which had been open to receive the sky, defensively tightened into fists. Her fingernails bit into her palms, but the pain was secondary to the pain of seeing Daniel there.

“What are you doing here?” she murmured.

Daniel either didn’t hear her or pretended not to, because he came down the porch steps and moved to embrace her. Conflicted, Mary stood still as a tree and held herself just as stiffly.

“What’s the matter?” Daniel asked, stopping just short of slipping his arms around her. “Aren’t you happy to see me, Mary-Mary?”

Was she?

“Oh, pleased as punch,” Mary said through her teeth. “Just as pleased as any woman can be after seeing the man she thought she was courting still holds a torch for his former love, and she for him.”

Daniel’s full-lipped mouth fell open, revealing those annoying perfect teeth. Mary couldn’t help noticing just how beautiful a mouth it was, just as beautiful as the carpenter’s hands he held up then. He certainly looked like he belonged with Alexandra, not her. “Wait, you think I still love Alexandra?”

“I know you do. I saw you,” said Mary, the sting of the memory cutting through her as harshly as one of the saws Daniel might use in making the furniture he sold.

“At the party, you mean?”

Mary nodded, and Daniel burst into laughter. Mary wanted to cry or scream. Why was he laughing at her? She had been there! She had seen what she had seen.

Daniel kept laughing. “Oh, Mary-Mary, my Mary-Mary, my precious girl, I’m sure it looked bad, but that was the first time I’d seen Alexandra since we parted ways. Of course I didn’t know how to react. And I certainly didn’t expect to have her turn up at the party you took me to!”

“I saw how you looked at her,” Mary insisted. She trembled. If she stayed here much longer, she would burst into tears. But there was one thing she had to know before she fled. “How did you find me?”

“I went to your apartment this morning, and when you weren’t there, I tried your place of work. The manager told me you’d quit just that morning, and I assumed you must have gone back home, so I got into my car and drove . . .”

Her mamm called for dinner then. Somehow, by God’s grace, she hadn’t heard Daniel, or Mary would have been forced to invite him in.

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