Tallulah Heartbeat (Tallulah Cove Book 1) by Casey Hagen

Author:Casey Hagen [Hagen, Casey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hagen Novels, LLC
Published: 2019-06-24T18:30:00+00:00

Ben paced his office in the construction trailer Monday morning. He hadn’t heard a word about the results of his test yet, and the waiting was killing him.

He’d also not stopped at Tallulah Cove Dental to find Abby yet, either, which made him a first-rate asshole. She might have just assumed they would find each other at the Little Laguna—well, after what he’d done to her on the beach, she might expect something more than the weekly meet-up they’d engaged in so far.

Way off his game, he grabbed another cup of coffee…the only thing keeping him awake, since he’d taken to only sleeping a couple hours a night since he’d found out about his son and granddaughter.

He had been better off not knowing about them. At least then he only carried his own worry over his mistakes. Now his son had a name, and despite not knowing him personally, Ben could imagine his life. At least to an extent.

Chris had a little girl that he had kept. He’d held her at night when she cried. He’d changed her diaper. He’d watched her learn to crawl and to walk. He held her hand. He ran around with her at a park. He’d caught her at the bottom of a slide.

He’d done all the things with Sophie that Ben wished he had been able to do with Chris.

A quick flash of jealousy moved through him. He knew it wasn’t right to feel that way. Chris obviously had been older when Sophie was born than Ben had been when Chris was born. He probably had an education, a wife, and a career.

He’d turned into a man who fought and sacrificed for his own. That’s the only explanation for why he had looked for Ben but didn’t necessarily want to meet him. He’d do anything for his little girl.

Ben respected that. Chris made him proud, although he had no right to any of the credit for the kind of man he’d become.

“You’re going to wear a hole through the floor if you keep up this pacing,” Millie said from the doorway, her hand on her hip. She stood maybe five feet tall. Four kids had left her thicker around the middle, but the extra weight rounded out her face, making her look younger than her sixty-eight years.

Those four kids had also trained her to not take shit and get to the heart of the matter. And her sights were set on him.

“I’ll build a new floor then.”

She dropped three folders onto the center of his desk. “Nonsense. What in the hell is going on with you? You were a hot mess Thursday, and as near as I can tell you’ve only gotten worse since.”

He braced his hand on the wall and took a sip of coffee. “I’ve got some personal stuff going on. Not sure what to do about it.”

She leaned against his desk and crossed her arms over her ample chest. “How about you lay it on me, and I’ll see if I can help you out?”

“You have enough of your own crap to deal with.

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