Love Still Stands
“The thought irritated him further. A man shouldn’t have to tiptoe around in his own home. When had he become so soft? Leah would understand.
She would support him. That’s what fraas did. He straightened his shoulders and clomped into the room. Jebediah moved restlessly on a baby quilt in the playpen near the window.
His cheeks were rosy with sleep and his thick, dark curls formed ringlets around his face. He had Leah’s upturned nose and high cheekbones. Luke forced his gaze from the sle...eping baby to his wife. “Leah.”
She didn’t look up from her sewing, her legs pumping the treadle with a steady thump, thump. The tight white lines around her mouth and the red of her eyes said she’d been crying.
No one ever saw the soft side of her—the side that cried. Just Luke. Once he’d considered it a place of honor, a place of trust. She trusted him like she trusted no other.
She told him her feelings about being the oldest of three girls and three boys, of being the one who’d born the brunt of the strictest of upbringings—far stricter than his own had been.MoreLess
She would support him. That’s what fraas did. He straightened his shoulders and clomped into the room. Jebediah moved restlessly on a baby quilt in the playpen near the window.
His cheeks were rosy with sleep and his thick, dark curls formed ringlets around his face. He had Leah’s upturned nose and high cheekbones. Luke forced his gaze from the sle...eping baby to his wife. “Leah.”
She didn’t look up from her sewing, her legs pumping the treadle with a steady thump, thump. The tight white lines around her mouth and the red of her eyes said she’d been crying.
No one ever saw the soft side of her—the side that cried. Just Luke. Once he’d considered it a place of honor, a place of trust. She trusted him like she trusted no other.
She told him her feelings about being the oldest of three girls and three boys, of being the one who’d born the brunt of the strictest of upbringings—far stricter than his own had been.MoreLess
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