Dancing Tides (A Pelican Pointe Novel Book 3) by Vickie McKeehan

Author:Vickie McKeehan [McKeehan, Vickie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, ghost, Sagas, military, promise, Family, small town, Contemporary Romance
ISBN: 9780615723068
Publisher: Beachdevils Press
Published: 2012-09-19T04:00:00+00:00

Cord had his own Monday morning problems at the farm. One of the workers cut his hand on a fence rail and had to be transported to Doc Prescott’s for stitches. The wrapping machine malfunctioned in the packing house and shut down production for two hours before Marty had it fixed.

Cord started to worry about getting to Santa Cruz on time and being late for his appointment. But after handing out the payroll checks, he borrowed one of the farm trucks and headed to his fifty-minute session with Dr. Tony Pontadera with time to spare.

It turned out Tony wasn’t male at all, but rather a curvaceous, raven-haired, forty-six-year-old single mother who spelled Toni with an i.

Toni Pontadera was in the process of raising two sulky teens. Both boys seemed determined to test, not only every inch of a mother’s patience, but her vast knowledge of the mental health profession as well. Her kids had always been her priority. But sometimes her thriving private practice had to take top billing.

Such was the case this morning when neither boy wanted to get up and go to class. She’d had to get tough. She’d reminded them both she had a new patient onboard, which meant she could not be late. Her sons giving her grief today was not an option. The life of a career-minded single mom was rarely a walk in the park.

In her twenty years in the business of therapy though, Toni Pontadera had seen her fair share of PTSD victims. It was her specialty. She’d been treating victims suffering with the disorder as old as seventy who had dealt with the horrors they had experienced in Vietnam to victims as young as fifteen, a girl who’d been snatched off the street not five miles from her office door.

Anyone exposed to psychological trauma might experience flashbacks, depression, anxiety, anger, fear, or have problems with various addictions including alcohol, drugs, or sex. All exhibited an inability to cope with what had caused them pain in the first place.

With a certain professional curiosity she used to size up all of her new cases, she eyed Cord Bennett over the folder and the data sheet he’d filled out.

Despite the man’s David Beckham facial features, she detected an intense set to his jaw, not to mention the “I want to be anywhere else” look.

As she always did, she perused the info Cord had provided and then asked the usual background questions.

The yes or no answers she got were fairly typical from a reluctant man who did not want to be sitting in front of her answering what he considered dumb questions about a very sticky problem.

But when she looked into his eyes, she saw real uneasiness.

And because she was a no-nonsense type woman, the eyes got her attention. “You survived a spree shooting where you lost the woman you loved just eighteen months earlier, is that correct, Mr. Bennett?”

“Yeah.”

She noted his leg bouncing up and down nervously and stated, “You’re very anxious today, aren’t you?”

“Yeah.”

“Why?”

“I don’t really want to be here.

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