Lifeline by Alexa Gregory

Author:Alexa Gregory
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alexa Gregory

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THE WINGS SHIMMERED

MAËLLE

Size of baby: Pretty sure we’re a honeydew melon now, but way heavier. Secretly fear Peanut is a bowling ball.

Job search: I’m about to lose my mind! Cannot waitress anymore.

Crush on my landlord: Va-va-voom, I sure am doom-ed. Damn. I can’t rhyme.

Usually, I spent my days off lounging around, reading pregnancy and parenting books, watching old movies, and fiddling around with Denton’s website. It was getting decent traffic, and a few orders had come in.

Today, nothing held much of my interest. It was difficult to focus for more than ten minutes.

I couldn’t stop thinking about Denton.

My pregnancy would have most men running for the hills, but nope. He didn’t. He listened to parenting books while working in his woodshop.

How was I supposed to react? Shrug it off and pretend it wasn’t the sweetest thing anyone had ever done for me? Because, honestly, it was. Everything he did redefined what I (thought) I knew about people.

When Tavish and John did nice things for me — like giving me a job when I was utterly unemployable, showing up to my grandmother’s funeral – I merely redoubled my efforts at work. I was the best waitress ever and tried to upsell people’s meals from a simple dinner to appetizers and desserts.

With Denton, I had nothing to offer.

That wasn’t entirely true, though. The man didn’t like to eat alone, and as a result, he ate a lot of frozen dinners between two tasks in his woodshop.

There was my answer.

As I busied myself in the kitchen — sitting down at the table to get dinner ready and to avoid more cramping — I let my mind wander.

Denton Bell. Now he was definitely on my mind for more than ten minutes at a time.

The man was desperate to find his place in the world. He arrived in Eastwood heartbroken and somehow found exactly what he yearned for.

Here.

Along the Caribou River. A place that was always less than kind to me.

Denton fit in better than I did. I wondered why.

Was it because he was a man? A dude with a whole set of skills that made him a wonderful addition to the small town? Not only was he working for Roy Construction but he was also in the Eastwood Fire Department. He had friends and dating prospects. He laid down roots and made himself a good home, a good future.

If Denton hadn’t come to Eastwood when he did, what would have become of me? That was hardly a comfortable question.

Lately, every time fate’s wheel turned, Denton showed up when I needed someone the most.

The evening we met, the night I found out I was pregnant, the bonfire where I confronted Bastian, the day I went to Paradis Sugar Bush, offering up the rental place, accompanying me to scatter Grand-Maman’s ashes.

There were a million other little moments in between that all led to the night he drove to the hospital.

That was the kicker.

It was always by coincidence. Denton showed up quite by providence, but what he said in the hospital wasn’t something that just happened.

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