Meant To Be Family by Amelia Foster

Author:Amelia Foster [Foster, Amelia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

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Kelsey

Present Day

Actually speaking the words seemed an impossibility. And the longer they lodged in her throat, the bigger the odds of her running away became without shedding the big, glaring spotlight on the truth.

“So tell me now.” He folded his arms across his chest, and she barely restrained herself from drooling. Connor had always sported lean muscles and strong arms, but the weeks of being confined to a wheelchair and needing to learn how to transfer himself into and out of it had bulked up his frame.

She lifted her chin and tried to fake bravery she most definitely did not feel. “There was more than that. More that I didn’t tell you because,” she lifted a shoulder, “I figured they were transient things and didn’t mean anything serious. Most everything could be explained away by stress or working too much.”

“Let’s take two steps back. What were these symptoms you didn’t feel the need to share with your damned fiancé?” His jaw worked back and forth. “And why the hell did you sit on them rather than actually trying to find out what was wrong?”

She licked her lips before capturing the bottom one between her teeth. “Medical professionals are really good at lecturing patients on all the things they need to pay attention to and all the ways they should be taking care of their health, but they are really bad at applying that knowledge and logic to themselves.” She lifted her brows. “I was in denial that anything serious could possibly be wrong.”

The color drained from Connor’s face. “Something serious is wrong?”

Kelsey shook her head. “Not serious as in life threatening, only…lifestyle threatening.” She rolled her eyes to the ceiling in a vain effort to prevent the threatening tears from falling.

She straightened her spine and met his confused and fearful stare. “I was skipping my periods. Often. I spent more on pregnancy tests in one year than I’d like to remember.” The light in his eyes at the topic shredded her barely functioning heart. “You know I was tired and irritable—”

He winced. “Irritable is definitely a word. Although some of that was justified. You were a perfectionist living with an admitted oblivious slob.”

In spite of the pain that cut through her with surgical precision at his use of the past tense, she huffed a light chuckle. “Yeah, the entire concept of putting dirty clothes in the laundry basket, loading the dirty dishes in the dishwasher, and emptying the clean ones never really sank in with you.”

Crimson stained his cheeks. “And there is a pile in my bathroom that can attest to the fact it still hasn’t.”

Kelsey swallowed down the emotions clogging her throat. Falling back into the same easy relationship was effortless. And dangerous. “Well, irritability is one of the classic symptoms.”

“Symptoms of what?” His sapphire eyes narrowed as he pled with her to fill in all the blanks she’d created.

She erected as much of the self-preserving armor as she could manage to piece together as she formulated the words in her head as a test before speaking them out loud.

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