The Last Bride (DiCarlo Brides) by Tullis Heather

Author:Tullis, Heather [Tullis, Heather]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, suspense, ski resorts, florists, love, family
Publisher: Jelly Bean Press
Published: 2014-01-22T00:00:00+00:00

Gage spent the full drive down the mountain to Denver blaming himself for leaving the hospital. He should have stayed so he could have been there for his mom. She must be terrified.

Jonquil sat beside him, holding his hand and humming along with the radio, but not bothering him with chatter when he wanted his head free to think.

There was no moon and the darkness oppressed him as they reached the hospital parking lot.

“Just go on inside and let me park it,” Jonquil suggested as she stopped in front of the building.

He hesitated for only a moment before opening his door.

“I’ll find you inside,” she said as he got out of the car.

He nodded and rushed through the front doors and up to his mother’s room. The elevator seemed to take forever to arrive and then stopped twice on the way up to her floor to let people in and out. Gage held back from snapping at them, just barely, as he drummed his fingers against his leg impatiently.

Gage had tried to get a call through to the doctors during the drive to the hospital—after they got through the twists and turns to where there was a cell signal again. But no one had answered the phone at the nurses’ station, making him even more irritable. They called to tell him he should hurry back down the mountain and then they didn’t answer when he called for an update?

He pushed through the doors to his mom’s area and rounded the corner by her room. It was quiet. The nurses at the desk were speaking on the phone or working computers and a third one lifted her head to look at him. She had checked on his mom shortly before he left. She frowned a little and approached him. “Hi, Gage. I’ll let the doctor know you’re here. Would you like to take a seat?”

He scowled. “How is my mom? I need to see her.”

“The doctor will be out to talk to you in a moment.”

Gage didn’t want to wait any longer. “He can talk to me after I see her.” He moved to pass her, but caught sight of the doctor striding toward him. Gage glanced at his mother’s room where the door was shut and the light off—was she sleeping or had they moved her to another area of the hospital?

“Mr. Mathews, come, let’s talk where it’s more private.”

His words sent a shot of foreboding through Gage. There was no one else around them except the nurse, who presumably already knew about the state of his mother’s health. “What’s going on? Is she okay?”

The doctor led him to a quiet corner. “She had a heart attack. We did everything we could think of but we couldn’t save her. I’m so sorry.”

Every thought vacated Gage’s brain except for the one that his mother was dead. “What… How… What caused the heart attack?” She had been fine a few hours earlier. Upbeat, lucid, looking forward to being back in her own home.

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