The Heartbreaker of Echo Pass by Maisey Yates

Author:Maisey Yates
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2021-04-19T12:26:07+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

HE HAD ANOTHER voice mail from Mallory. And he was going to answer it sooner than he had been. He got up on the rock, and as soon as he had bars, dialed the number.

“Well, this is a surprise. Contact less than two weeks apart.”

“Yeah. I’ve got... Well, I just wanted to make sure you were well.”

“You wanted to make sure I was well?”

“Yes.”

“I am. Thank you for asking.”

“How’s the practice, by the way?”

“Hmm. Complicated. You know, you wouldn’t think that midwives would have a whole lot of inner office politics, but sadly, there are some.”

“Is Rain taking the good birthing suite and all the good vibes too?”

“Can you not?”

“I mean, I can try not to. But it’s fun.”

“How come you still act like an immature brat when we get into having a normal conversation?”

“Because that’s a normal conversation.”

“You sound better.”

He looked around through the trees. He put in a few hours on the house today, but the work hadn’t felt quite so compulsive. It was strange, because he had imagined that telling Iris all about his past might make it all feel raw. Closer to the surface. But it hadn’t been like that. Not really. Yes, it was there. But hadn’t brought nightmares up any more ferociously than they’d been before. If anything, things had felt a little bit better. He breathed a bit easier.

“I like cookies,” he said. Then he realized that sounded ridiculous.

“You...like cookies?”

“It’s been a long time since I...liked anything.”

The silence stretched out between them on the phone. “Griff,” she said, and he could tell that her voice was thick with tears. “That is the best news.”

“It’s pretty good.”

“Really. And thank you for calling me.”

She told him a little bit more about the drama at the birthing center she worked at before they got off the phone, and there was something so aggressively normal about it all, that when he hung up he felt... Strangely light.

But then, he had. Ever since he had spent that day with Iris. He hadn’t seen her since. He imagined that she’d been busy.

Which was fine by him. But he was starting to wonder... Starting to wonder what he should do. Because he wanted to see her again. And he didn’t want to wait for her to come back up here.

It made him wonder if he needed to go to her.

He’d done it once before. Come down the mountain to repair that plumbing problem she had.

But she called him. It was different.

He meandered back down the path that led to the housing site and surveyed his progress. It was slow. But by design. There was no way to do a project like this by yourself and have it go quickly. Building this house had felt like action for a long time. He had never been one to sit around doing nothing, even when everything was terrible. There was always something to be done.

But he wanted to do something else. There was something else to do. And that, he supposed, was a gift.

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