A Carol for Kent by Hallee Bridgeman

Author:Hallee Bridgeman [Hallee Bridgeman]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: fiction, drama, suspenseful drama, contemporary love story, contemporary inspirational romance, contemporary inspirational fiction, contemporary inspirational suspense, contemporary drama, contemporary suspense, contemporary christian romance, contemporary christian fiction, contemporary christian suspense, contemporary christian, contemporary, christian suspense, christian romance, christian love story, christian fiction, christian family drama, christian drama, christian, traditional romance, traditional suspense, traditional love story, romance, love story, love, inspirational, inspirational romance, inspirational fiction, inspirational suspense, inspirational christian fiction
ISBN: 978-1-939603-27-2
Publisher: Olivia Kimbrell Press, Inc.
Published: 2013-05-13T04:00:00+00:00

CAROL spent an hour trying to calm her daughter down. She finally got her to lie down on the couch long enough to rest, and Lisa drifted in and out of sleep. Bobby came and went as the night wore on, his face appearing more and more haggard as the hours passed.

At one point while Lisa napped, Henry came into the office and sat with her, explaining how Harriet had found Robert in the horse barn, but that he had already been down for too long. The damage to his heart had been substantial. Barring a miracle, they were just waiting now.

Harriet came into the office around four in the morning with coffee, and treated Carol as she had in the past. Carol couldn’t help wondering how much of her civility had been feigned all these years, then decided she didn’t really care. Harriet treated Lisa well, and as long as she kept her act up in front of the child, that was what truly mattered.

Carol didn’t allow Lisa back into the room, not wanting her there when Robert’s heart stopped. She knew his death might frighten the child, so she stayed in Henry’s office with her and, whenever Lisa wanted to, she helped her pray for her grandpa.

At five-thirty in the morning, the door to Henry’s office opened and Bobby walked in, his hands in his pockets, his shoulders hunched. She could tell from his expression that the wait was over. She shifted a sleeping Lisa onto the couch, and met him halfway across the room, letting him gather her into his arms. She cried for him, feeling his heart pounding in his chest as she pressed her ear against him. He released her and his gaze fell on Lisa. She left him alone with his daughter so he could tell her.

As she left the room, she saw Henry walking down the hall and intercepted him. “Thank you, Henry. Thank you for letting Lisa see him.”

Henry reached a hand out and wiped a tear from her cheek. “Sorry I couldn’t do more, Carol,” he said.

“You’ve done so much for us, Henry. You’ve risked…”

Henry held up a hand. “Don’t.”

Carol nodded, knowing she could never speak about that time not so long ago when Henry had treated a man with a life threatening gunshot wound in her guest bedroom. Not ever. Instead, she turned around and saw Bobby standing in the doorway of the office holding a sobbing Lisa, watching them, and she went to soothe her daughter.

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