First Love, Second Chance & Temperatures Rising by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-03-13T14:25:57+00:00

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TAMI STOOD IN THE HALL, the new infant car seat she’d purchased slung over one arm. She’d been trying, for the past several minutes, to get her heart to stop pounding so she could step into Katie’s hospital room with an unfaltering smile. But it was no use. She was afraid Katie would tell her to leave, refuse to let her see the baby. In a way, she felt Katie would be justified in doing just that. As Katie’s parents, she and Don had couched the complexity of their reaction—all the anger, hurt pride, disappointment and desire to control—in righteous indignation. They were right, and she was wrong. Period.

Or so she’d thought until she’d had that talk with Barbara...

Tami wanted to believe that if she hadn’t been so preoccupied and worried about Travis, she would’ve come to this point sooner. But at least she was here now. Somehow she had to find some middle ground between taking a stand for the right and being there for her children, even when they did the exact opposite of what she told them.

She just wished it was easier to find that middle ground.

Nodding politely at a nurse who bustled past, she drew a deep breath and stepped into the room.

A game show was playing on the television. Katie was asleep, but she must have heard the rustle of Tami’s movements or sensed her presence, because she opened her eyes almost immediately.

“Mom?” she said, sounding confused.

Tami put the car seat on the floor and stepped close enough to grip the bar on the side of Katie’s bed. Katie looked wan and tired. Tami remembered what it was like when Katie was born, how precious she’d been and still was, and wanted to hug her daughter. But she doubted a hug would be welcomed.

“Hi, Katie. How do you feel?” she said, then held her breath as she waited for her daughter’s response.

“Fine.”

“How’s the baby?”

“He’s perfect, beautiful,” she said softly. “Have you seen him?”

“Not yet. I wanted to check on you first.”

A tear trickled out of the corner of Katie’s eye and rolled into her hair.

“I’m sorry, honey,” Tami said. Then she nearly cried herself when Katie offered her a tremulous smile and held the back of one hand against her cheek.

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