When Worlds Collide (My Kind Of Country Book 3) by M. Lynne Cunning

Author:M. Lynne Cunning [Cunning, M. Lynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fifth Ink Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2017-04-08T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Christmas morning came and went in a flurry of festiveness, so much so that Katie could have easily closed her eyes and imagined that she wasn’t spending it in a hospital wing.

Almost.

Moods all around were elevated, though, by the spirit of Christmas in the air and the by the once-forgotten sense of belonging that came with having close-knit family nearby. Chad, it seemed, was remembering what it was like to have his own immediate family within arm’s reach, and the glow emanating from him was unmatched from any level of happiness she’d witnessed in him before.

Chad’s family left late into the evening the night before, but not without laughingly trying to figure out how to play Mason’s new card game with him, reminiscing about bygone memories, and laughing until crying at many of the stories that surfaced from the depths of their minds. Most of those stories, Katie noticed, starred Chad, and by the end of the night, he was practically begging his mother and sister to stop airing his childhood mishaps out for Katie to bring up at some opportune moment.

Katie and Mason stayed the night in Chad’s room—Jillian couldn’t hide her enthusiasm at having a double bed all to herself instead of “that god awful couch”, as she bluntly put it—not wanting to spend Christmas night anywhere but with Chad. Instead, she and Mason snuggled up together on the couch beside his bed. Her son had been asleep within minutes of the overhead lights being turned off, despite the harsh lighting coming in through the large east-facing window from the parking lot. That left Katie and Chad in the quietness of the ward, and in the dimness of the room, to converse quietly with each other without prying eyes or curious ears to eavesdrop.

Unfortunately, all Katie’s energy had been zapped from bustling around throughout the day in an attempt to pull off a decent Christmas, and she didn’t even remember at which point in the evening she’d fallen asleep.

“You know, you were mid-sentence when you finally succumbed to sleep,” Chad told her when she first woke up in the morning. Bright sunlight was streaming through the windowpane, and she squinted through barely opened eyes toward him.

“Somehow, I don’t doubt that. What was I saying?”

“That you adored the hell out of me.” He said it in a whisper, as though it was some dirty little secret between the two of them.

“That’s not what I was saying, though it may very well be true.” She brought her hand up to rub her eyes, smiling sleepily.

He shrugged. “Well, you didn’t come right out and say it, but it was implied. Definitely implied.”

Mason awoke soon after, undoubtedly due to Katie’s chest rising and falling with laughter, on which her son’s head had been resting. The day progressed quickly after that, beginning first with the Christmas gift the nurses had found at the nurses’ desk with Mason’s name on it from Santa Clause—Katie would never forget the wide eyes that stared at

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