Because of a Boy by Anna Destefano

Author:Anna Destefano [Destefano, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Category, Nurses, Atlanta Heroes, Attorney and Client, Atlanta (Ga.), Illegal Aliens, Sick Children
ISBN: 9780373781942
Google: 7iHcbIurpiEC
Amazon: 0373781946
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

“THERE’S A WOMAN OUT FRONT asking for you.” David Weller stepped into the academy’s bathroom long enough to relay the message, then ducked back out.

Martin finished washing his hands.

He was actually looking forward to seeing his sister tomorrow night. But he’d counted on having another day to accept their reunion.

He straightened to his full height, grabbed his crutch and pushed into the hallway, walking as normally as possible, his head high, his right leg dead weight but moving with him. His hip was still screaming from last night’s slip and slide, but he’d be damned if he’d let Katie see it.

He was willing to welcome back his sister—and their mother’s pasta—into his life, but there was no place for her pity.

Except it was a tiny fireball of a blonde waiting in the academy’s reception area. She was picking at the wilting ends of the fern no one in the building seemed to care about. Martin had been sneaking it water between classes, or late at night, after everyone else had left and he couldn’t stand to go home.

Lissa loved plants. She’d bought him several for his hospital and rehab rooms. He’d found a way to keep them alive those first few months after the shooting. He’d left most everything but his parents’ antiques behind when he moved away, except each plant had found its way into the moving van. There was one for every room of his tiny apartment, and then some.

Now he couldn’t pass a fern without thinking about Lissa, or keep himself from stopping to touch it, to check if it was getting enough water.

His crutch creaked as he stepped forward. She looked up, the beauty of her smile fading when he didn’t return it.

“It’s good to see you.” She fiddled with a pinched-off piece of fern.

“Why are you doing this?” He glanced to where Weller was manning the reception desk, then motioned Lissa toward the couch no one ever used.

She sat. He walked to a nearby table and settled on its edge, his uncooperative leg stretched before him, the crutch draped across his lap. He usually kept the damn thing as far out of sight as possible. But it was important that neither of them forgot it was there, or what it represented.

“I told you I’d come,” Lissa explained.

“Your life is back in Oakwood.” He could smell the citrus of her shampoo, the subtle fragrance that always lingered on his clothes after he held her. “Being here is a waste of both our time.”

Lissa set the piece of fern aside.

“For someone who gave me the full-court press for as long as you did, you’re awfully sure we can’t weather our first problem.”

“Problem?” The hurt in her voice tempted him to reach for her. He locked his hands together in his lap. “I have to retrofit my apartment to keep from killing myself doing things I shouldn’t have to think about doing. I’m fighting to get my mobility back, Lissa, but it may never happen.”

“Fighting? Is that what

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