The Right Kind of Crazy (Love, New Orleans Style Book 6) by Hailey North

Author:Hailey North [North, Hailey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hyacinth House
Published: 2017-11-12T16:00:00+00:00

Flynn reached out an arm and pulled Sami to his side. He stroked her hair. Said nothing. Words weren’t what Sami needed right now. He watched as one or two tears slipped down her cheeks. She was one of those women who looked beautiful when she cried. He thought of telling her that, but knew he was better off keeping his mouth shut. He had no idea what it must be like to find out your father might not be your father or he might be but you simply don’t know. Being deserted by his rat of a sperm donor was at least clear cut.

Sami wiped the back of her hand across her face. “I wonder if she would have broken off with Emile?”

Flynn shrugged. “Want to read any more or have you had enough?”

She sighed and turned to the next page, then numerous other pages. “I may as well get to the end. More notes. No emotion. Nothing personal. Ah…”

Flynn left his arm around her shoulders, in what he decided was a brotherly offer of comfort and listened as she read:

I fainted during rounds. Clara insisted on examining me. She asked me how many weeks along my pregnancy was. I did not answer her. But I knew I could no longer ignore or deny my condition. I could not abort Philippe’s baby. I could not. I presented the facts to Emile. I awaited his decision.

He had only three requests. One, that we raise the child as our own. Two, that we never speak of the circumstances. And three, in the future when I lose a patient—for it was that tragic loss in the O.R. that led to my night with Philippe—I react in a more rational and responsible fashion. Then he added that Philippe and I had given him a child, an experience he would not have known otherwise.

We married the next weekend.

“That’s the entry,” Sami said. “The remainder of the pages are blank. I conclude that my mother made these entries in order to inform me of the circumstances of my conception and genetic heritage. She has failed, however, to reveal the identity of my father, as never once does she record Philippe’s last name.”

The flat tone in which Sami was speaking worried Flynn. But he thought he understood what she was doing, retreating to the voice of Nathalie at her most practical, resorting to reason over emotion. The voice of a woman who had married a man to whom she was well-matched but not in love with. “Not many guys would have reacted the way Emile did,” Flynn said.

“He must have been very much in love with my mother,” Sami said.

“After my deadbeat dad cheated on my mother, she kicked his butt out,” Flynn said.

“I thought you said he abandoned the family.”

Flynn shrugged. “Both are true.” He didn’t want to discuss his parents. “Why do you think Nathalie left the journal for you now? Accidentally or on purpose?”

Sami tossed the book onto the coffee table and jumped up.

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