Maui Madness by Daley Kathi

Author:Daley, Kathi [Daley, Kathi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Mystery, Women Sleuths, Animals, Cozy, Thriller & Suspense
Published: 2014-05-08T07:00:00+00:00

By the time I got back to the house, Zak and Levi were already gone. Ellie had made a pot of coffee and was sitting by the pool sipping from a white ceramic mug. She looked tired, but she had a smile on her face as she watched a school of dolphins playing in the water.

“Coffee?” she asked

“Thanks.” I poured myself a mug after refilling Charlie’s water dish.

“Malie called. She’s going to pick us up at around eleven. She thought it would be nice to stop for lunch on the way to her uncle’s.”

“I guess I should head in for a shower after I finish my coffee.”

“And Rob called,” Ellie added. “He’s in Ashton Falls, packing up his things.”

“Yeah, I heard,” I admitted.

“He wanted to know what to do with the stuff I’d left at his house.”

I waited quietly for her to continue.

“I really thought I’d have a chance to see Hannah one more time, but he said he plans to be gone before we get home.”

A single tear slid down Ellie’s cheek.

“Maybe that’s for the best.” I placed my hand over hers.

She took a deep breath. “Maybe. Part of me wants to have the opportunity to say good-bye to Hannah, but I suppose seeing her again would make everything all that much harder.”

“Yeah,” I said. “I think it would.”

“I did realize something while I was talking to Rob, though. Something important.”

“What’s that?”

“I’m pretty sure I never really loved him. I wanted to love him. It made everything so much more convenient, but while I was talking to him, I realized I wasn’t sad at all that he was walking out of my life. I’ve been sitting here for the past hour thinking about things, and I believe I’ve come to the conclusion that they’ve worked out just the way they should. If Hannah’s mother—her real mother—” Ellie emphasized, “wants to be back in her life, then she should.”

“Yeah,” I agreed.

“My relationship with Rob has helped me realize how badly I want to be a mother. I mean, I was willing to marry a man I didn’t love to gain a daughter I’d grown to love.”

“You’re only twenty-five,” I reminded Ellie. “There’s plenty of time to find the right man and be a mother.”

“Maybe.”

Ellie sat quietly and looked out at the ocean. Then she tucked her legs up under her body and sipped her beverage. “The thing is,” she continued after several minutes, “that the longer I sit here thinking about finding a guy in order to have the child my heart longs for, the firmer it is in my mind that I don’t really need a man to have a child.”

I laughed. “I realize it’s been a while since high-school biology, but you actually do need a man.”

Ellie grinned. “What I meant was that I only need to borrow a man. I don’t actually need to marry a man in order to have a child. The single parents group is full of parents who are raising children alone. If they can do it, so can I.

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