Mac (HC Heroes Series, #1) by Donna Michaels

Author:Donna Michaels
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: romantic comedy, romantic suspense, Texas, Hot, military
Publisher: Donna Michaels
Published: 2019-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Sunday afternoon, Stefanie sat at the Texas Pub, enjoying a burger and fries with her friends. She didn’t know what kind of spices Kerri used on the meat, but the burgers were addicting.

“I swear, I’m going to gain ten pounds a month, living above this place,” Abby said between bites of her Cajun burger, obviously harboring a similar addiction. “But right now, I don’t care.”

Mel nodded, digging into her chicken enchiladas. “I’m right there with you.”

“Yeah, Kerri’s dangerous to our weight, but a great friend to our palates.” She smiled. “I’ve been dreaming of this for three days, now.”

“I’m sure visiting your niece was worth it.” Abby grinned. “She’s adorable.”

Stefanie nodded, scrolling through photos on her phone that she’d shared with her friends before their food had arrived. “I agree. It was tough to leave her, but since I’d already extended my stay a few days, it was time to get back here.”

Her original plan had been to fly back with Mac on Friday but running into her damn stepmother at the hospital had thrown her for a loop. And alarmed her. How the hell had the woman known about Chloe’s baby? Katie had only been a few hours old. It hadn’t been public knowledge.

So when her sister had asked her to stay a little longer, she did, and did some snooping around to find her stepmother and her latest sugar daddy were living two towns over from Comfort. There was nothing comforting about the woman being so close to Chloe.

Last they knew, Naomi was still living in Nevada. Stefanie hated that she was back in Texas, and trying to worm her way back into their lives. She didn’t want to taint the McCalls with this crap. She had sort of a clean slate going, without the negative people from her past taking part in it. And she wanted to keep it that way.

She wanted to shield Chloe from it for a few weeks, so Stefanie didn’t tell her sister or Logan. They were in new parents’ mode and didn’t need this worry to dampen such a special time. No way would she ruin that, or let Naomi ruin it right now.

But she also couldn’t just leave and come back here, four hours away, too far to help in a pinch.

So she told Lincoln. And only Lincoln. He’d wanted her to inform Mac, but unless the guy was going to move back up there, he would be no help, either. Even a forty-minute chopper ride could turn out to be too far to get there in time if there was an actual incident. She and Chloe had long since grown past the age where Naomi could use their dependency against them. Her game had always been to use the legal guardian crap as blackmail to get them to do what she wanted. But that had ended on their eighteenth birthdays, so Naomi had no hold on them anymore.

Besides, it was possible their run-in was just a coincidence.

Naomi claimed she

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