Dakota Blues by Lisa Mondello

Author:Lisa Mondello [Mondello, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Dakota Hearts, Book Eleven
Publisher: Lisa Mondello
Published: 2018-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

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The closer it got to Christmas, the colder the mornings were. Keith had left early. Despite a few days of pampering her, he still had that look of a man who’d lost his best friend. And she hated that she was making him feel that way.

He didn’t understand. How could he? He was raised by the most amazing woman in the world in Reggie’s eyes. Kate McKinnon could do anything and had love enough for the universe. Okay, so maybe that was a bit of an exaggeration. But it sure seemed that way. How could any woman live up to the mother Kate had been to her boys?

Reggie got to the Wounded Veterans Center and felt stronger physically, but emotionally drained. The bleeding had stopped and after a quick call to her OB/Gyn, she was cleared to go back to work. Keith had performed another ultrasound that showed the baby’s heartbeat was still strong.

She genuinely was relieved. But that didn’t seem to appease Keith.

She could have finished up the grant application at home, but she was getting stir crazy and needed to move around. But that wasn't the only reason why she went to the Center that day. Abby, Ian’s wife, was a short walk up the next driveway. She frequently came into the Center with the kids to visit Ian. Reggie always loved seeing the kids running around the banquet hall while Ian was working.

And Abby loved to sing. Half the time she didn’t even know she was doing it. But she unabashedly sang to the kids or when she was just walking around. She was happy being a sudden mother, having adopted the three children she’d been entrusted guardianship with from a fellow firefighter from her fire station in Vermont after he and his wife had been killed. Ian has also been entrusted with the same guardianship and had strong ties to the firefighter, as he’d been the one who’d saved Ian’s life during the bombing in Afghanistan that cost him his leg.

Ian and Abby had an enviable life. Abby had taken to motherhood overnight as if she’d been born a mother.

But no one was at the Center when Reggie had arrived so she turned on her computer and quickly opened the file she had started for the grant intending to get as much done as she could before anything else stopped her.

The grant was almost done. She just had to tweak a few things, and highlight those few programs that made the Wounded Veteran Center unique so that her grant would stand out along with their plans for expansion the next year.

A quiet knock on her office door had her lifting her face from the computer screen. Ian stood at the door holding two cups of coffee.

“I know you’ll probably sit here for the next two hours without taking a break,” he said. “Don’t deny it.”

“I won’t. I’ve been here an hour already. I'm almost done,” she said. She glanced at the coffee mugs in his hand.

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