Special Forces: Operation Alpha: Saving Liberty (Kindle Worlds Novella) by Sarah O'Rourke

Author:Sarah O'Rourke [O'Rourke, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kindle Worlds
Published: 2018-01-20T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Truly

Leaning against my dusty car door as I stared up the neatly kept walkway that led to Pax’s new house, I asked myself for the tenth time what I was doing here. I think I’d willingly give up a choice body part to anyone that could explain it to me. God knows I’d spent the last several days searching my soul for a single reason why I should do what I was about to do. I mean, really… how many women would step up to raise their late husband’s kid with another woman – even if they were going to do it with a man as delicious as Paxton Graham? Nobody I knew was that selfless. So, why should I be any different?

Except for the small problem that I’d spent every single night since learning of Liberty’s existence dreaming about her. And not just her either. Her and Pax. And me. As a family. Yep, each night I dreamed of us doing normal things. Familial things like feeding the baby or rocking her to sleep…. holding Pax’s hand as we watched Liberty crawl for the first time. And in those dreams, one thing stood out to me upon waking up: I was happy. Laughing. I always woke up with a smile on my face. Right up until I realized that it had all been in my head. There was no Liberty sleeping in a crib. No Pax beside me in bed.

It was just me there. Alone.

Always freaking alone.

Yeah, it was beyond weird - dreaming of my dead husband’s illegitimate kid and best friend. It appeared my life was playing out like something you’d see on one of those tawdry Lifetime movies of the week. It was infuriating. I didn’t need this kind of drama when I was trying to get my life back on track. I should be concentrating on me and what I wanted for myself, not wondering if Yancy’s illegitimate child was being looked after by someone qualified! But despite the fact that she wasn’t my problem, I couldn’t stop thinking about her!

Lifting a hand to rub my aching temple as I eyed Pax’s front door, I reminded myself that I had plenty of good reasons why I shouldn’t take this challenge on, but, deep down, I knew none of that was going to make a difference. No matter how insane an idea it was that I step in and be Liberty’s caretaker or how much I knew it would remind me of my own loss, I still found myself wanting to be with Liberty and Pax. I couldn’t seem to talk myself out of coming here.

And oh, how I had tried. For the past few days, I had holed up in my co-worker Anna’s cabin on the lake, watching the ducks land on the water while the trees waved in the wind as I tried to make sense of the shit storm that had overtaken my life. I’d reread Melissa’s damn letter so many times that

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