His Broken Heart Antidote (A McKnight Family Romance Book 4) by Anne-Marie Meyer & Lucy McConnell

Author:Anne-Marie Meyer & Lucy McConnell [Meyer, Anne-Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orchard View Publishing LLC
Published: 2021-01-01T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Carter

Something had shifted in Ellise. She seemed so small. So vulnerable. And so not the woman who’d I run into with the spaghetti sauce. For the first time since I’d met her, I’d seen just how broken she was. Because it wasn’t just about her ability to work as a nurse. Whatever trauma she’d been through had broken her faith in mankind. Which was a shame, because the world deserved to see her smile, hear her laugh, and share in her light. She had so much light inside, but it was muted. And now, more than ever, I wanted to help her fix whatever was ailing her and shine bright again.

No matter what.

But before I could open my heart up and tell her all the feelings building inside of me, Brooke waddled up to us with her arms, hands, and mouth completely full of all sorts of fair food. I smiled and helped her unload her goodies, setting them carefully on the bench and the rim of the planter next to us. I caught whiffs of chocolate, popcorn, caramel, and something spicy that I wasn’t sure would go well with the other flavors.

“Ooh, mini doughnuts, please,” Ellise said as she reached out her hands and wiggled her fingers.

Brooke swatted her hand away. “You don’t take food from a pregnant lady.” Even though her tone was sweet, her warning was not lost on me. From the look on Ellise’s face, it wasn’t lost on her either.

“Geez,” Ellise said as she emphatically shook her hand out and then blew on it a few times.

I chuckled at their antics as I stood in the background, watching these two converse. It made me think of my siblings. We’d fight and pick on each other, but when it came down to being there for one another, that was a given. We’d do anything for the one who was struggling.

And right now, from what I could tell, both of these women were struggling.

Time seemed to speed by as we hung out. Brooke and Ellise had their inside jokes and occasionally let me in on some of them. Any other time, I would have felt out of place as they giggled and ate, but for some odd reason, I didn’t feel that way at all. If anything, I felt at home. A feeling only reserved for my parents’ house.

My two-bedroom apartment next to the hospital wasn’t my home. It was a place where I stayed between shifts. Mom and Dad’s place spoke to a simpler time for me, when people’s lives weren’t in my hands and all I had to worry about was where I spent Friday night or my biology grade. The pressure to be a McKnight was always there, but in the home, it was coupled with a whole lot of love and acceptance.

So it was strange that standing here, listening to these two women laugh and joke, gave me that same sense of satisfaction. Maybe I needed to pay Dr. Thornbush a visit up in the psych ward to get my head examined.

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