Secrets Under the Covers by Brenda Margriet

Author:Brenda Margriet
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fifty-year-old widow widower, cancer death tattoo career, strong heroine supportive hero, steamy open door sex, Prince George British Columbia Canada
Publisher: Brenda Margriet Clotildes
Published: 2022-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

NATHAN FORCED HIS CONCENTRATION back to the print copy of his Mount Morgan proposal. He was going over it for the fifth time, and he still kept finding things he wanted to change. He didn’t care. He was determined it would be perfect. It had to be.

His eyes were drawn once more to the clock in the corner of his computer screen. Helen hadn’t texted yet, and he was beginning to worry something had gone awry.

Who was he kidding? He’d been worried all day.

Helen had been determinedly cheerful this morning on their way to the hospital, and he’d done his best to match her positive energy. He’d offered to go in with her, and wasn’t sure whether he was relieved or disappointed when she’d politely but firmly rejected the idea.

“This is no big deal,” she’d said, pecking him on the cheek as she opened her door. “A simple, quick procedure. You’ve got more important things to do than waste your time lurking in the waiting room. I’ll text when I’m ready to be picked up. Go, get prepped for tomorrow. It’s going to be the sale of your life.”

He’d smiled, as she’d intended, but it had slipped off his face the moment she was out of sight. At the office, he’d holed up to put the last touches on the proposal, but despite knowing it was the most important one he’d ever worked on, he’d had a difficult time focusing. His thoughts had been perpetually drawn to what Helen was going through at any given moment. He had a good idea of what the procedure entailed, and while it didn’t sound pleasant, he knew it was much less invasive than any future treatments might be.

As he well knew from Wanda’s experience.

With a twinge of guilt, he couldn’t help comparing Helen’s fierce independence with Wanda’s terrified vulnerability. She had clung to him with all her might, physically and emotionally, and while he couldn’t blame her, it had exhausted him, wrung him out. Not that he’d ever complained about her neediness, to her or anyone else. He wasn’t that much of a jerk. But while the embers of his resentment had been doused, they still flared up at unexpected moments.

Like now.

He shifted in his seat, tossing down the thick sheaf of pages he’d been perusing and rubbing his temples. He didn’t resent Helen. He didn’t. She hadn’t asked him to give anything more than he’d offered. She had sent him to work, telling him to concentrate on his career and not worry about her.

As if that were even possible. If he were honest, he was a basket case. And this was the easy part. What if the tumour wasn’t the benign cyst she insisted it was? Could he accept the promotion and the move to the Island it demanded if Helen were wrong?

The idea of abandoning her was a black cloud tainting what should have been one of the most exciting times in his professional career. He shuddered at the word his subconscious had dredged up.

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