Somethin' Dirty: Country Fever, Book 4 by Em Petrova

Author:Em Petrova
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Samhain Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“You doin’ all right, Ma?” Griffin held her elbow and guided her out of the sedan his mother drove before she got sick. She was still far from her normal, hardy self but today she seemed less fragile.

“Yeah, yeah. Stop coddling me.” She waved but wore a smile. From the backseat where her car seat was secured, Lyric squawked, ready to get out too.

“Just a second, sweetheart.” He made eye contact with her, and she flapped.

Dragging Lyric to the hospital for chemotherapy and blood work wasn’t ideal, but he was faring. Just as he was making it work to have her in the barn. He strapped her into the bouncy chair and put it somewhere safe while he worked. She didn’t mind watching him shovel or feed animals. And she often stared at the birds flitting through the rafters.

But this wouldn’t work forever. His daughter’s feet were already hanging off the edge of the seat. Another month and she also wouldn’t put up with not being mobile. Since the night she’d rolled off the bed, she’d begun to roll all over the place. He’d put her on a blanket on the living room floor and a few minutes later find her in the kitchen.

And fuck, he missed Nola’s presence in his bed.

She’d done so much for him around the house. Just having a break from folding miniature laundry or mixing formula had been welcomed.

But he missed her in the way a man did a woman, with a bone-deep need. To hear her voice, listen to her singing. Feel her wrapped around every damn inch of him.

His ma waited on the sidewalk while he snagged the baby seat from the car. His chest was tight. Today his mother would find out whether or not the cancer had stalled enough to operate.

She still faced a radical mastectomy, but they could deal with that.

The doctor’s office was jam-packed. He let his ma take the only available seat and leaned against the wall, Lyric in her seat at his feet. She blinked up at him and he pulled a face that made her give a drooly grin.

Glancing up, he caught a woman smiling at him. Around his age with a wide-eyed beauty. She sat beside a woman who was probably her mother.

He looked her over more closely. She was in the same stage of life as he was. He stole a look at her bare ring finger. Perhaps she was divorced with kids and also bearing the responsibility of a loved one’s illness. He could smile at her and start a conversation. Take her to dinner.

But he wasn’t looking for a companion. One had just fallen into his lap when Nola took the nanny job.

He gave the woman a little nod. Then Lyric started churning her arms and legs, gearing up to scream, he bent and unbuckled her, pulling her free. He straightened with her hooked in his arm, facing forward so she could look around.

The woman across the space smiled wider. “She’s beautiful.

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