Coming Back Home by Megan Linden

Author:Megan Linden [Linden, Megan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotic Romance Fiction
ISBN: 9781786515278
Publisher: Totally Entwined Group Ltd
Published: 2016-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Connor closed the door to the staff office and leaned against the wall. His legs were trembling slightly and he felt ready to drop. The emotional roller-coaster he’d just gone through had left him dizzy, but it had also left him in a state of overwhelming relief. Sure, they still had a way to go and anything could happen, but if there was a chance of…

He was almost afraid to hope. Don’t overthink it. Don’t expect too much.

Connor waited until he got his heart under control, but when he finally went back out to the playground, he was still in a bit of a haze and he had to stop himself from grinning like an idiot.

He couldn’t hold back his smile when he saw Rosa, though. She was sitting in the same place he’d left her, but now there was another girl next to her—Aisha’s daughter, Dora—and the two of them were shoveling sand into one pile. Susan nodded at him from her place right behind Rosa.

“Thank you so much,” Connor said, joining her.

“No problem. Everything was fine,” Susan told him, but he was already focused on his daughter, who glanced up at the sound of his voice and beamed at him.

“Dada.”

Connor’s breath caught in his throat and he quickly squatted next to her. Rosa had said ‘Da’ in the past, but that was the first time for ‘Dada’ and since she had been looking straight at him when she’d said it, she’d obviously meant it.

Feeling his heart ready to burst, he resisted the urge to grab her into a hug but he leaned over and nuzzled her head. Rosa shoved a handful of sand onto his neck and chest, but he didn’t mind. He could pretend he was blinking fast because some of it had gotten into his eyes.

“First time?” Aisha asked him quietly. She was sitting at the edge of the sandbox next to Dora, so she’d easily heard Rosa.

“Yeah.” Connor kept staring at his daughter. He couldn’t believe what had just happened. It wasn’t unusual—she was getting old enough to start talking, after all—but since she had a human mother, Rosa’s development could be a little slower than that of a werewolf child with both parents being shifters. Connor hadn’t been expecting her to speak just yet.

The distraction worked perfectly for him, though, because he didn’t spend the next fifteen minutes staring at the center’s entrance.

Connor had just gotten out of the euphoria stage of his little girl calling him ‘Dada’ when the door opened and Jack came out. Half the kids began screaming and Rosa started, so Connor rubbed a hand over her back.

“It’s okay. They’re just excited,” he told her. His own heart sped up at the sight of Jack, but luckily, the kids’ enthusiasm covered it up.

When Connor glanced up, he couldn’t help his grin. Jack had two girls in his arms and there were two boys who fought over the space to hug him around the waist. And Jack was laughing, no trace of tears or the misery from earlier.

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