Coming Home For Christmas--3 Book Box Set by Delores Fossen

Author:Delores Fossen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Special Release
Published: 2014-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

KELLY CHECKED THE time again while she paced from the kitchen to the living room and back. Gabe had been gone much too long.

Four hours.

That was a lifetime out in the cold and ice, and for some reason her calls to him were going straight to voice mail. Maybe the weather was responsible for that, too, but Kelly’s imagination was causing her to think the worst.

Sweet heaven, was Gabe all right?

She couldn’t help but think back to her parents’ car accident. Not caused by icy roads but rather by a drunken driver. They were good people, and something horrible had happened to them.

Something horrible could be happening to Gabe, too.

Noel whimpered and looked up from the whirling butterfly mobile that Kelly had attached to her bassinet. The baby was probably sensing her mother’s frayed nerves.

And they were indeed frayed.

Things weren’t exactly in a good place between Gabe and her, and now he was out there. Yes, he was doing something important, getting Noel’s formula, but she could have given the baby the other formula. Of course, she should have just remembered to get the cans she’d already bought in the first place. There’d been a lot going on with Gabe’s homecoming, but she still should have remembered something that important.

Kelly scooped up Noel when she whimpered again, and she continued her pacing with the baby cradled in her arms. Continued looking out the windows, too, for any sign of Gabe or anyone else who might be coming up the road to deliver bad news.

“He’ll be back soon,” she whispered to Noel, trying to soothe the baby and herself. Gabe would be back soon, and he would want an answer to the proposal. Or rather the ultimatum.

And the answer I’m expecting is yes.

Kelly wasn’t sure what the consequences of saying no would be, but it was what she’d have to tell him. She couldn’t leave Sugar Springs.

Could she?

She paced, mulled that over, paced some more, and it didn’t take long for the movement to put Noel to sleep. Kelly eased the baby back in the bassinet and glanced over at Mrs. Saunders’s house.

Maybe she should get the woman to stay with Noel while she went out looking for Gabe.

Kelly reached for the phone to give Mrs. Saunders a call, but before she could press in the number, she saw something. At first, it seemed to be a shadow in the misting frozen fog, but she kept staring at it and finally saw something she wanted to see.

Gabe.

Not hurt and not in some ditch as she’d imagined. But here.

Thank God.

He was walking on the side of the road, a bag in each hand. His shoulders were hunched against the cold, head slightly down, but he was keeping a steady, swift pace toward the house. Kelly grabbed a blanket throw from the sofa and hurried out onto the porch.

“You’re all right,” she blurted out, and Kelly made her way down the steps and into the yard so she could put the blanket around him.

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