Kisses After Dark by Marie Force

Author:Marie Force [Force, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Fiction, Contemporary, Contemporary Women, General, Sagas
ISBN: 9780991418268
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-30T16:00:00+00:00

Sitting alone in the surgical waiting room, Mac stared at a poster on the wall and tried to think about anything other than what was happening to Maddie. The picture of the meadow filled with wildflowers reminded him of their backyard. He’d much rather be sitting on his own deck looking at the real thing than forced to exist in this cold, sterile room, looking at pictures that were intended to provide fake serenity.

The table next to him was stacked with magazines, and a nearby coffee station was well stocked. Mac didn’t partake of either. He couldn’t work up the interest in anything other than his wife. At times like this and the night Hailey was born, his mind traveled to worst-case scenarios that made him crazy.

The thought of life without Maddie was so unbearable it could bring him to his knees. He couldn’t stand to be without her for even a single day. Hell, the two hours they’d told him it would take to perform the procedure and see her through recovery seemed endless to him.

He scrubbed his hands over his unshaven face, and when he dropped them, his father’s big frame filled the doorway. Mac blinked repeatedly, certain he was seeing things. “What the… What’re you doing here?”

Wearing his summer uniform of a faded logo T-shirt, khaki shorts, deck shoes and sunglasses propped on his thick gray hair, Big Mac dropped into the seat next to Mac’s. “I thought you might like some company.”

Mac had managed to hold it together all morning for Maddie’s sake, but his father’s kind words broke his composure.

Big Mac’s heavy arm came around Mac’s shoulders, offering comfort the way he had all of Mac’s life, from skinned knees to broken hearts and everything in between.

“I can’t believe you’re here.” Mac wiped his face.

“Joe got me and the truck on the eight o’clock boat. It was no big deal.”

“It’s a huge big deal. Thank you.”

“You don’t have to thank me. I’ve been where you are right now, son. It’s a bitch. No way around it.”

Mac couldn’t have said it better himself. “Yes, it is.”

“How’s Maddie?”

“She’s… She’s quiet. Very, very quiet.”

“She’s processing it in her own way.”

“I want us to process it together, but she’s… It’s like she’s somewhere else.”

“As hard as it is, you’ve got to follow her lead. She’s going to think she did something wrong to cause this.”

“She already does. That was her first question to Victoria. And I told Shane yesterday, right before the appointment, that the thought of having three kids gave me hives. I didn’t mean that. I was excited to meet our new little person.”

“Course you didn’t mean it. It’s not her fault and it’s not yours for saying what any dad expecting his third kid would say.” He glanced at Mac out of the corner of his eye. “I heard Mom told you what happened to us.”

“She did, and I’m sorry. I had no idea.”

“Wasn’t talked about so much in those days. It happened, and you went on with your lives.

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