A Plain Love Song

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Book: A Plain Love Song Read Online Free PDF
Author: Kelly Irvin
Tags: Romance
He doled out those smiles with great generosity, one of his best qualities.
    Adah slipped from her room and tiptoed down the stairs, not because she was sneaking—her parents couldn’t help but know about Matthew—but because she knew how tired they were. They would be up before dawn. They needed their sleep. She pushed through the front door and trotted down the steps. Matthew twirled the flashlight, making its beam dance and bob in her eyes. She shielded them. “Hey, stop it!”
    “Nice way to greet a man you haven’t seen in three days.”
    “Sorry. It’s been a long week.”
    Matthew tucked the flashlight on the floor of the two-seater and offered her his hand. “Too long to enjoy a ride? A short ride?” He must’ve seen the hesitation in her face. “It’s been three days since we talked and it’s a full moon. It’ll be pretty down by the pond. And I have news I want to tell you. Good news.”
    She swallowed the weary protest that rose inside her. Matthew always made her feel better, no matter what her day had been like. He had a way about him. “No, not too long for that.”
    Adah took the hand he offered. Goosebumps ran up her arm and prickled the back of her neck just as they always did on those occasions when Matthew touched her. She examined that thought with care. Was it Matthew specifically? Or the fact that any man took her hand? Nee. It was Matthew. Why? She looked into his face, with his ready smile, warm brown eyes, and high cheekbones. Tufts of hair stuck out under the brim of his hat. A good, honest, face. One she’d known her whole life. He made her feel…content.
    Not the feeling from which love songs came.
    Or was it?
    She climbed into the open-air two-seater and settled back. Matthew loped around to his side and hopped in. His familiar scent of man, hard work, and soap enveloped her. A few minutes later they were out on the back road that led to the pond and then onto his family’s property. Adah felt better already. The night had cooled after the sun set and the air whooshed by her as the horse trotted down the road. It was indeed a nice night for a ride. The full moon caused the trees to cast long shadows on the road. The stars twinkled and seemed to hang down unusually close, as if they followed the buggy, looking over Adah’s shoulder, lighting her way. She felt almost festive.
    “You said it has been a long week.” Matthew broke the silence first. “You cleaned at the Harts’ and the Stewarts’, right?”
    The festive feeling drained away, like water running from a bucket with a hole in it. “Jah.”
    “Anything in particular happen?”
    She shook her head and then realized he had his gaze on the road. “Nee.” No need to tell him about Jackson Hart getting stomped by a horse. Jackson with the country-crooner voice and silver buckle. About the songs, that was another matter. “In particular, Daed was upset with me. Mudder found the iPod and showed it to him.”
    Matthew clucked and snapped the reins. “Ouch.”
    “He crushed it with his boot and threw it in the fire barrel.”
    “Sorry.” Matthew glanced her way, but his expression revealed nothing. He’d been with her when she bought the slim, small music player and slipped the buds in her ears. He’d told her not to keep it in the house. She hadn’t heeded his advice, but he would never rub her nose in it. “I know how you like to listen to it.”
    “Don’t be sorry. I shouldn’t have had it in the house. I knew better. It was just easier. For when…” For when she wanted to listen to it while she made her scribblings after her family went to bed. “It was just easier.”
    Matthew switched on the battery-operated radio he had strapped to the front of the buggy. He fiddled with the knobs and after a few seconds the crackling noises dissolved into guitars, keyboards, and drums melding into a beautiful old song about a faraway place with a pretty name: Amarillo. “There you go, George
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