Читать книгу A Mother For His Children - Jan Drexler - Страница 3
Оглавление“Why, Levi Zook? Why do you need me to stay? Why would you marry me to keep me from leaving?”
What could he tell her? He liked her, but more than that, he needed her to keep his family together. He cast about in his mind for reasons—what could he say that would convince her?
“I… Well, there’s Eliza. She still wants me to send Nellie and Nancy to her.”
“It would break their hearts to leave you.”
Levi nodded. “With you here, they have a mother, do you see?”
Ruth turned back to the stove, her shoulders slumped. “Ja, I see. That’s a good reason, I suppose.”
A thrill of hope ran through Levi. Would she agree to be his wife?
“We would make a good family—you and I…”
“And the children.”
“Ja, of course.” Levi sighed. This conversation wasn’t going the way he had wanted it to, not
at all. Why couldn’t he tell her how she made him feel?
