The Single Dads of Seattle: Books 1-4 by Cox Whitley

Author:Cox, Whitley
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Whitley Cox
Published: 2021-02-20T00:00:00+00:00

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Once they knew that Mira was okay, Mitch left the hospital. Paige and Adam needed some alone time with their daughter, who was hooked up to an IV and drinking her weight in apple juice, and Mitch needed to go see his own child.

After gathering Violet and Jayda back at the house, Mitch drove them all to Paige’s restaurant—correction, former restaurant, and Violet drove Paige’s car to the hospital. Mitch left Violet there, and he and Jayda continued on to his mother’s house.

The Benson family had been hit with quite a blow over the last year and a half. First, Violet lost her partner, Jean-Phillipe, to a nasty tumor in his spine, then Mitch lost Melissa in the car accident, and not nine months ago, they lost their father to pneumonia.

They say things happen in threes. And Mitch hoped to God that they were right, because he wasn’t sure his family could handle any more loss, any more death.

From the outside looking in, it might appear that he had his shit together, that he was getting over Melissa and the massive hole her death had created in his world, but appearances can be deceiving.

He had a daughter to raise. Jayda needed her father present and accounted for. She didn’t deserve a shell of a man who was so grief-stricken he couldn’t get his ass out of bed, couldn’t eat, couldn’t sleep, couldn’t work. She needed him now more than ever.

So he grieved in silence.

He grieved alone.

When the house was quiet, the sky dark, and he knew his child was safe and warm in her bed, he grieved. He missed his wife. He cursed the world, the semitruck driver who fell asleep at the wheel and rolled his big rig on the highway, crashing into his wife and pinning her in her car for hours before she died en route to the hospital. He cursed and cried, screamed into his pillow until he let sleep take him.

Then in the morning, when the house was up and the birds were chirping, he plastered on a happy face, made his daughter breakfast, brushed her long, blonde hair, helped her get dressed, and started a new day.

And as the seasons changed and the days continued, things did get easier. He didn’t cry every night. He didn’t let the grief consume him the way he used to. Because Melissa wouldn’t want him to. She would want him to be happy, to find the joy in life and each and every moment, just the way she did.

Violet was doing better too. She’d found love again with Adam, and although Mitch knew she could never replace Jean-Phillipe, she didn’t have to. Adam added something new to her life; he didn’t take anything away, didn’t diminish the memory of Jean-Phillipe or all that he’d given Violet over the years. He simply made her life richer. Mitch saw that firsthand.

Their mother, however, wasn’t there yet. And she condemned Violet quite violently when she’d first started seeing Adam, accusing her

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