The Dawn of Christmas by Cindy Woodsmall

Author:Cindy Woodsmall [Woodsmall, Cindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Christian, Amish & Mennonite
ISBN: 9781410461605
Google: 07epngEACAAJ
Amazon: B00CGI3FMY
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2013-09-14T23:00:00+00:00

Levi fitted another piece of wood into place on the gazebo railing. The birch and maple trees around him swayed. Sadie said they were strutting their deep yellows and brilliant reds of fall like a peacock did his tail feathers.

He sighed. Girly nonsense. That’s what she had him thinking these days. When he saw her in a bit, he’d complain about it too. He peered across the backyard and into his shop to check the clock again, then he hammered another nail into the railing. There was more work to do than he had morning left to do it.

Andy came around the corner of the house, two-by-fours stacked on top of one shoulder. Tobias was on his heels, carrying a two-by-two. Andy dropped his on the ground, and Tobias did the same. The planks banged and bounced, reminding Levi of the way sounds echoed through an empty home. Noise he wouldn’t have noticed until these last few weeks with Sadie.

They used most of their courting time to work together on projects for the dry goods store. But when they weren’t doing that, she liked to take long buggy rides and discover empty homes to walk through. It was an interesting pastime. Some of the places were new, unfinished homes that the builders abandoned when the economy changed. One home they went into was off by itself, a Victorian place. She loved that one best of all. Sadie’s grandmother used to clean that house for the owners, a huge mansion Sadie had been in as a child. But the owners had passed away, and the house had yet to sell. She had few qualms about entering it, and even though the front door was locked, she’d found a side door that wasn’t. When he’d balked, she said she knew the owners wouldn’t have minded. If they were alive, she’d knock and visit with them, and she didn’t care if the police showed up. He could hear her now: “Let them take me to jail. I dare them.”

Just the thought made him laugh inside—a kind of hilarity he hadn’t known until recently, where his outward expression showed little while inside he enjoyed great merriment.

They had yet to be caught breaking into a home. Although, if an officer or two did arrive, Levi would let Sadie do all the talking. She was the one who didn’t mind defying authority as long as she wasn’t doing any actual harm.

She was an odd bird, willing to bend her knee to whatever she thought God wanted of her and yet unwilling to yield to man’s rules any more than absolutely necessary to stay out of serious trouble.

Levi had yet to fit those two women into one person—carefully defiant with a heart of utter obedience. Weird. The good news was that since they weren’t really involved, he didn’t have to be concerned about her attitude or outlook.

“Hello?” Andy set one of the boards on the sawhorses.

Levi looked up. “Did you say something?”

Andy turned to Tobias, shaking his head.

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