Rescue Me by Rachel Gibson

Author:Rachel Gibson
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Adult
ISBN: 9780062069139
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2012-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“Who buttered your muffin?”

Sadie turned and looked at her father, an oxygen cannula in his nose, glasses on the top of his head, and a new pair of nonskid purple socks on his feet. Had he found out about Vince? Had someone seen his truck leave at about three A.M. and ratted her out? “What?”

“You’re humming.”

She turned back to the sink filled with yellow daisies. “A person can’t hum?”

“Not unless there’s somethin’ to hum about.”

She bit the inside of her cheek to keep from smiling. She felt more relaxed than she had since the morning she’d headed her Saab toward Texas. For the first time since she’d arrived at the JH, she’d spent the night thinking of . . . well, thinking of nothing. Just feeling pleasure. Of doing something other than watching television, worrying about her daddy and her career and her future. And that was something to hum about.

She cut an inch off the stems and arranged them in a vase. “Is there anything I can do for you, Daddy?”

“Not a thing.”

“I can take over some of the responsibilities at the ranch.” For a while. Until he could go home. “You could show me your accounting software and I can do your payroll.” Once she was shown what to do, it couldn’t be that hard.

“Wanda does all that. If you take Wanda’s job, she can’t feed her kids.”

Oh. She didn’t know Wanda. “You’ll be vaccinating and tagging the new calves soon. I could help out with that.” One of her least favorite jobs, but it would give her something to do besides hang out in a rehab hospital with her grumpy daddy.

“You’d be in the way.”

True, but he could have lied and spared her feelings. Wait. He was Clive Hollowell, no he couldn’t. “I thought these flowers might cheer you up,” she said and gave up trying. Daisies had been her mother’s favorite flower.

“Going home will cheer me up.” He coughed and grabbed his side. “Goddamn it!”

She glanced over her shoulder at him but knew there was nothing she could do. Her father’s ribs were healing, but slowly. He was still in pain but refused to take pain medication.

“Why don’t you take something,” she said as she filled the vase with water.

His painful fit went on for several more moments. “I don’t want to be a damn doper,” he croaked between coughs.

He was seventy-eight, it wasn’t like he was going to get addicted, and if on the off chance he did, so what? He’d live out the rest of his life pain-free and happy. It might be a nice change. “Daddy, you shouldn’t have to live in pain,” she reminded him, and turned off the water. She moved across the room and set the vase on his bedside table. “Mama’s favorite flowers. I thought they’d add a little color to your room.”

“Your mama loved white daisies.”

She looked down at the yellow flowers. “Oh.”

“White daisies and blue sky. I never saw her when she wasn’t pretty as a silver dollar.

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