A Colleen Coble Christmas Collection by Colleen Coble

Author:Colleen Coble
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ebook
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2015-11-01T00:00:00+00:00

A coyote yipped in the darkness outside the living room window. Brendan rubbed his burning eyes and stared at the laptop screen. “There isn’t much on the murder. The investigation seems to have gone nowhere.”

Rick sat on the sofa with his arm around Allie, who had fallen asleep with her head on his shoulder. “I don’t think she’s guilty of anything.”

“So you’ve already said. The sketchy details point to her guilt.”

“I called all her references, and they raved about her. And horses seem to have a sixth sense about character.”

Brendan barely refrained from rolling his eyes. He wanted more to go on than some animal’s sixth sense. “According to her bio here, she grew up in Nashville. Her mom was raising her cousin Tonia too, and both girls ended up in foster care when her mom died of cancer. Lauren was fifteen and Tonia was fourteen.”

“Why are you so interested, Brendan? We trust her and want to help her. That’s what we do here at the Bluebird. Let’s talk about you for a minute.”

He stiffened. “There’s nothing to talk about. I got shot on a mission, but my leg is doing fine. End of discussion.”

“You’re still limping.” His buddy’s blue eyes missed nothing. “It’s been what—two months?”

“The doctors say it can take a while to fully heal. I just have to keep doing my physical therapy.”

Rick raised a brow. “You’re worried you may never be the same, aren’t you? That you’ll have to give up your career and will end up behind a desk. The one thing you swore would never happen.”

Brendan’s gut tightened, and his fingers curled into his palms. “I’ll be fine. No reason to get all teary eyed over a little bullet. I’ll be back to work in six months.” Even he could hear the desperation in his voice. What would he do if he couldn’t get back to his team? Special Ops was his life. He thrived on the challenge, the rescue missions.

“Everyone’s life changes eventually. I didn’t want to get out of the military when I did either, but it was time. Turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to me. You’ll never have a normal life with a wife and kids while you’re traipsing all over the globe. And you’re thirty-five. Eventually we can’t do what we did when we were twenty-one.”

He held up his hand when Brendan started to object. “I know, I know. Every man in your family has ended up leaving his wife and kids. But you’re not that kind of man. Maybe this was God’s way of slowing you down and making you look at your life.”

“My life was just fine before this injury, and it will be again.” But Brendan couldn’t deny that Rick’s words described a quiet longing in his heart. He’d been—lonely. The restless feeling had started before he was wounded. It was getting harder and harder to shove away. “I appreciate your concern, buddy, but I’m fine.” He forced a light tone into his voice.

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