Craving a Hero: St. John Sibling Series, book 3 by Barbara Raffin

Author:Barbara Raffin [Raffin, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Plain Wrapper Publishing
Published: 2014-10-23T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

Hey Dane,

Dad comes home from the nursing home tomorrow. He still needs therapy, but it'll be in-home. Mom and I rearranged the living room so they could put a hospital bed in there, and Carrie moved home to add her nursing skills to his care.

Kelly's fingers stilled over the laptop keyboard. Yeah, right. Like her mother would let her move furniture. She slid a hand over the little bump rising from her abdomen. She was growing into a first rate liar…at least as long as she could avoid phone calls with Dane.

She sighed and continued typing.

First floor, in front of the TV, and close to where Mom can watch over him. Should be a boost to his morale.

Like she knew anything about her father's morale other than what her mother and Carrie reported to her. Like it mattered how he was in the nursing home. The real test would come tomorrow when he and she faced each other for the first time since…

We're all looking forward to being together again.

And the lies keep rolling. Now, what lies could she tell him about herself besides that big one by omission?

"Got any whites that need washing?" her mother asked from her bedroom doorway.

"I'm a big girl, Mom. I can do my own laundry."

"Just figured, since I'm throwing in a load of whites…"

"Got no whites, Mom."

But instead of leaving, her mother sat on the bed beside where Kelly typed at her desk on her laptop. "You still haven't told the boy he's going to be father, have you?"

"Dad's my priority right now."

"You've been using that excuse for weeks."

"It's not an excuse. I can't deal with anything else at the present besides Dad."

"I don't see you dealing with your dad, either. All I see is you avoiding him."

"Won't be able to do that any longer come tomorrow," Kelly muttered, "unless one look at me puts him right back in the hospital."

"Still beating that old horse of an excuse too, huh?"

She gave her mother a sharp look. "What does that mean?"

"You and Frank face down angry bears, forest fires, and men with guns. But you're both afraid to face up to your feelings."

"I think I've been dealing with a helluva a lot of feelings lately."

Her mom patted her shoulder. "Sweetie, I don't think you've dealt with your feelings ever, at least not the ones at the core of why you haven't told Dane about the baby."

Kelly scowled. "You don't know what it feels like to grow up knowing you were rejected by your own father. I don't want that for my child."

"And you're afraid Dane will reject his child." Her mother rose from the bed and headed for the doorway. "I think you don't want to risk being rejected again."

Kelly jerked around so fast she nearly fell out of her chair. But her mother's footsteps were already fading off down the stairs, leaving her alone with her absurd theory.

It was absurd, wasn't it?

#

"I don't know what to do," Dane said into the mouthpiece of the headset he'd attached to his cell in anticipation of a long talk with his sister.

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