Daddy in the Making (Love Inspired) by Cote Lyn

Author:Cote, Lyn [Cote, Lyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2011-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Jake had driven his dad home, promising Brooke he’d come back for his dad’s SUV the next day. Right now, they both sat at the kitchen table with fresh coffee in their mugs, having a speaker-phone conversation with his father’s old friend Lewis, his cardiologist in Madison.

Lewis was saying, “You need to come in for more tests, Dan. Afterward, we can figure out exactly what is causing your symptoms. We didn’t do a heart catheterization last time. And I have a few more hoops for you to jump through before I make a true diagnosis and we can begin treatment.”

Jake listened intently, his jaw set. Why hadn’t his dad told him he was ill?

“I just fainted—” Dan objected.

“Jake,” Lewis interrupted, “how many times has he told me he just fainted? Are you keeping track?”

“I gave up counting. He’s like a broken record.” Jake sat with his arms folded.

“I’m scheduling Dan for the catheterization and a few more tests ASAP. I’ll call as soon as I know the time. Dan, you’ll be here overnight. And afterward we’ll make sure you don’t go fainting on us again anytime soon. Got that?”

“Yeah.” Dan sounded anything but happy. “What choice do I have?”

“Exactly. Gotta run,” Lewis said. “You’ll be hearing from me tomorrow. Jake, I don’t want your father alone from now till he’s back in my hands.”

“Got it. We’ll be like Siamese twins.”

Chuckling, Lewis hung up. Jake punched the speaker button, cutting the connection. The two men sat glaring at each other in the low light.

Jake knew his dad didn’t like the way things were going. My dad’s sick. The words didn’t penetrate. He heard the sound of a car pulling in the drive. Mike.

Soon the older man was banging the back door. “Mom!” Mike called out. “I’m home!”

Mike’s teasing egged Jake to grin. He rose to face Mike as he came into the kitchen with Bummer padding along at his side.

“So are you going to live, Dan?” Mike asked.

“He may,” Jake said grimly, “if he decides to take care of himself. Remember when he went to Madison to visit old friends? Well, the old friends he was visiting were cardiologists—”

“I didn’t want to worry you,” Dan said. “I thought I’d go and it would be nothing.”

Mike sat down and faced him. “Maybe you should start at the beginning and tell us exactly what’s going on.”

Jake bit his lip to keep from saying the wrong thing.

Dan got up and poured himself another cup of coffee. “When I turned sixty early in January, one of my Colorado friends, a doctor, nagged me into finally having a physical. When he told me I needed to have some further tests done on my heart, I decided I wanted it done in Madison by friends I trusted.”

“Heart tests, huh?” Mike commented, sitting down. “Is this serious?”

“I didn’t think so, but the test results came in the mail yesterday,” Dan said.

“Then he fainted this afternoon,” Jake said.

“I know. I was there when that woman with the poodle called the clinic.

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