A Weldon Family Christmas: A Southern Steam Novella (Weldon Brothers) by Saints Jennifer

Author:Saints, Jennifer [Saints, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: alpha male, love, southern bad boy, southern steam, weldon brothers, romance, novels alive, vietnam, christmas
ISBN: 9781494798024
Publisher: Novels Alive Publishing, LLC
Published: 2013-12-25T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Present Day

Emma grabbed the edge of the table. James’s demand to know what was wrong with John echoed in the waiting room, drawing the sympathetic gazes of a family across the room.

The nurse, who looked too young for her graying hair, widened her kind eyes in surprise. “Forgive me. I didn’t mean to alarm you.” She moved closer and lowered her voice to a private level. “Mr. Weldon remains stable and is still heavily sedated. We have a few tests to be done yet then you can come back and see him. Right now, though, he’s anxious about something, and I thought if you could help us understand what that was perhaps we can help him rest easier. He keeps saying, ‘Find them Nin Hoy.’ Do you know what that means?”

“Yes, I think I do,” Emma whispered. She didn’t know whether to be relieved or more worried that John was reaching out to her from the past. She’d heard that a person’s life flashes though their minds just before death. “He’s saying Find Em Ninh Hoi. He wants to find me. Ninh Hoi was the area near where the Huey helicopter I was in crashed. It was Christmas Day 1971, Vietnam, and I was on my way to Landing Zone Eagle to serve dinner to the men there. John went to hell and back to save me.”

“That sounds like an amazing story.”

“It is.”

“Come with me. Hopefully you can calm him enough for the tech to do the test.”

“Jared just texted,” James said. “He’s on his way to the hospital. I’ll wait for him here while you see Dad.”

Emma hugged James. “We’ll finish talking later. Just remember that sometimes the heart doesn’t need time to know what’s right.” Leaving the waiting room, Emma followed the nurse into the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit. Emma had worked in the hospital cafeteria for years, so the place should feel like home. It didn’t though. It felt strange. The lights were too bright; the sounds too frightening; the surroundings too hard and sterile. There were touches of Christmas cheer scattered about, but the only comfort to be found was in the dedicated staff committed to saving lives.

“You’ll have to share your story with us,” the nurse said as she slid the curtain across the window, dimming the bright light of the nurses’ station and giving her a little privacy with John.

“I will.” Emma moved to John’s bedside, blinking back tears. His eyes were squeezed tight and he was moving his arms and legs restlessly as if in the grip of a nightmare. “Ninh Hoi Find Em,” he whispered harshly.

Lacing their fingers with his, she pressed her palm to his, a hold that would forever remind her of the first time they’d made love. “I’m here John. You found me. Now, you need to rest.” Leaning down, she kissed his furrowed brow and brushed back his once dark but now more salt than pepper hair.

He may have been drugged and not quite aware of where he was, but he shifted her way and tightened his hand around hers, making her heart soar.

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