Plain Murder (Amish Romance Mystery): Clean Mystery series (Amish Secret Widows' Society Book 8) by Samantha Price Page B

then looked back to the road. “Haven’t you heard that three’s a crowd?”
    Sabrina rolled her eyes. “That’s what I’ve been saying to them. Well, saying to my sister, she won’t hear of it. Mr. Caruthers, your father, promised me fulltime work and when I have enough, I’m moving out by myself. My sister doesn’t want me to though; we argue about it quite a bit.”
    “Seems families have to have things to argue about.”
    “My sister’s been good to me. I moved here from Ohio nearly two years ago and now she’s just married her second husband, Bailey. Her first husband died suddenly. I get along well most of the time with Silvie.” Sabrina wondered why she was telling him so much about herself. She cautioned herself to tell him no more.
    “I will put you on fulltime if that’s what my father promised you.”
    “You will? Thank you.” Maybe talking to him so much was a good idea after all.
    “At least that’s one way my father can keep one of his promises.”
    Sabrina had heard that Englisch families were not happy like Amish families and that there was a high divorce rate. “Sounds like you did not like your family very much?”
    “It is what it is, Sabrina. I learned a long time ago if you have very low expectations, you are seldom disappointed.”
    Sabrina thought on what he said and it made sense to her, even though the concept was rather depressing. She wondered if he was married and had a family of his own. If she asked straight out it would sound as if she were interested in him and she did not want to give that impression. “Have you moved back here now?”
    “I’m staying in a B&B and then I’ll look around for a place to rent. As much as I dislike my family, I couldn’t see my grandfather’s business go to wrack and ruin. My father’s father started the business in the forties.” He looked over to Sabrina. “That’s why I came back.”
    Ah, he has some decency, Sabrina thought. And he said he was staying in a B&B and he did not say ‘we’ are staying in a B&B. Sabrina had to find out more about him.
    “This place looks alright.” Jamie stopped the car in front of a small Italian restaurant. “And not too crowded.” Jamie got out of the car and hurried to Sabrina’s side of the car. Sabrina saw that he was going to open her car door, so she opened it before he got there.
    As soon as they were seated in the restaurant, a waiter handed them both menus. “My treat – eat up. You look like you need a good feed.”
    “I eat a lot,” Sabrina said looking up from the menu. “You’d be surprised at the amount I eat.”
    He looked back at his menu and muttered, “You’d never know it to look at you.”
    That might be his way of giving me a compliment, unless he does not like skinny women, Sabrina thought. “Well, thank you for treating me to lunch. It’s very kind of you.”
    “Yes, we Caruthers are very kind people.” Jamie chuckled quietly almost as if it were his own private joke.
    Sabrina screwed up her nose, unsure of why he would say such a thing. May was very kind, but Trevor certainly was not. “How’s your mother doing?”
    Jamie’s eyes looked up, but his head remained cast downward. “As well as anyone could expect her to be.” As soon as he finished speaking he looked back at the menu.
    “Ready to order yet?”
    Sabrina looked up to see a young man ready to take their order.
    “We’ll have a bruschetta, I’ll have the calamari and the young lady will have the Spicy Shrimp Scampi and the Stuffed Mushrooms,” Jamie said.
    Sabrina had been looking at him the whole time waiting for him to ask her what she would like to eat. She was surprised that he ordered for her, but perhaps that was how the Englisch did things. Or was it just the annoying Englischers who did things like that? She would have to ask someone later.
    After the waiter left, Jamie said, “I hope you don’t mind that I ordered for you?”
    “Not at all.” Ah, so that’s not the way