The Alaska Sunrise Romances: A 9-Book Sweet Romance Collection by Melissa Storm

Author:Melissa Storm [Storm, Melissa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Partridge & Pear Press
Published: 2018-01-18T07:00:00+00:00

This was it. He finally had to admit his past to Mandy. He only hoped that she wouldn’t hate him too much once she knew the truth. After all, he already hated himself enough for the both of them.

Then again, he deserved it, didn’t he? Because had he really thought he could go around playing God and somehow manage to escape punishment?

Yes, doctors lost patients sometimes. It was par for the course. People died, life went on. As callous as that sounded, it was something he’d learned to accept early on in his career, so that he could continue to work to save those who could still be saved.

But he could never recover from having ended the life of someone who could have lived if not for his intervention. A baby. His own niece.

He took a deep breath and tried hard not to let any tears spill. Mandy had been through enough already. She didn’t need him to fall apart right there at her bedside when she was already weakened from her fainting spell. Of course, he didn’t want to spook her either when it came to all the many things that could go wrong both during and after pregnancy.

Up until this point, he hadn’t needed to admit to what he’d done aloud yet. The hospital’s legal team had settled everything back in New York, but now he had to find the right words to admit his wrongs to the one person whose opinion he valued.

But if she hated him after all was said and done, well… At least there wouldn’t be any more wondering about what would happen when the chips finally fell.

She watched him now as he braced himself for the train wreck of a conversation that lay ahead. When he took too long to say anything more, she nudged him with a sweet smile and far kinder words than he deserved. “Luke, what’s going on? Now you have me worried.”

He sighed and squeezed her hand.

“It’s okay, you don’t have to—”

“Yes, I do. You deserve the truth. Really, I should have told you sooner, but… But I didn’t want to lose you. I know we’re just friends, Mandy, but you have been such an amazing bright spot in my otherwise dark life, and I didn’t want to risk… to risk seeing that special light in your eyes dim when you learned what a terrible person I really am. I was being jealous. I just wanted to pr—”

She squirmed in the bed and leaned forward to look him straight in the eye. “Luke, stop this right now, and tell me.”

“Mandy, I...” He took a deep breath, then whispered, “I killed a baby.”

She let go of his hand in an instant recoil. But while her body showed disgust, her face remained a mask of confusion. He needed to say more, needed to tell her how.

“I made a mistake, Mandy. One I wish every single day that I could take back. I loved that baby so much.” He folded his hands

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