Johnny #2 Connelly Cousins by Abbie Zanders

Author:Abbie Zanders [Zanders, Abbie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, contemporary romance, bikers, Authors, small town romance, connelly cousins
Publisher: Abbie Zanders
Published: 2015-11-30T13:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

She must have dozed off at some point, because the sun was setting in a glorious array of colors when the loud ringtone startled her. Rubbing against the stiffness in her neck, she checked the caller id.

“Dr. Hamilton.”

“Stacey?”

“Yes.”

“I am so glad you called,” Elena Hamilton said in her crisp, brisk voice. “I’ve been trying to reach you for days. The results of your latest tests came in.”

Stacey clutched the phone. The tests. Yet another reason she had agreed to fly across the country to see Lina. If she wasn’t at home, she wouldn’t have to face the results of the tests.

“Stacey? Are you still there?”

“Yes, I’m here. I’m on vacation, so I haven’t been checking my messages regularly.”

“Where are you?”

“Northeastern Pennsylvania. Visiting a college friend.”

Dr. Hamilton expelled an audible breath. “I’m at a conference in Philadelphia this week. Do you think we could meet?”

Dr. Hamilton wanted to meet with her? That couldn’t be good. It had to be bad. Very bad. No one thought twice about giving you good, or even nominally bad news over the phone. It was only the horrific, crush-the-last-of-your-hopes-and-dreams type of news doctors had to tell you in person.

When Stacey didn’t answer, Dr. Hamilton spoke again. “Please, Stacey. This is important.”

“Can you be more specific?”

“I think it would be best discussed in person, and as soon as possible,” the doctor replied obliquely.

Shit. This was not good. Stacey took a deep breath to steel herself. She could do this. She could do anything. She would face this head on, chin up. If she’d learned anything from the past few years, it was that ignoring bad news didn’t make it go away. It was quite poetic, in a tragic sort of way. The world was all about balance. The best two days of her life had to be paid for somehow, right?

“All right,” she sighed. It was probably better than sulking around Lina’s cabin for the next few days. Chances were, she wasn’t going to get much more accomplished here anyway.

They arranged a time and place. King of Prussia, three p.m. the following afternoon. At least there was a huge mall there. Stacey could find distraction by spending exorbitant amounts of money on a whirlwind shopping trip.

After hanging up with Dr. Hamilton, Stacey was restless. Now that she’d committed to the meeting, it couldn’t come fast enough for her. There was no way she’d find sleep tonight. The most she could hope for was maybe losing herself in her current work in progress while she awaited the dawn, but that hadn’t worked well earlier.

What if Johnny came back? Not that there was much hope of that; it was already past sunset. He’d been gone the entire day and should have cooled down by now. If he wasn’t here already, he probably wouldn’t be.

That was probably a good thing. No awkward goodbyes. No uncomfortable conversations about why she was leaving earlier than planned.

Somehow they had avoided talking about her “challenges”, though she had a sneaking suspicion he had

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