Unlocking the Rebel's Heart

by Alison Roberts

  She set the baby inside the playpen and turned to Lindsey. “Stay here with Avery,” she said as she ran from the room.

  “Shelley,” Hannah called again, rushing out the door. Stopping in the driveway, she watched the bright red Mini Cooper drive away.

  That girl was as fast as a Texas jackrabbit.

  So many things had just happened that it took a few minutes for Hannah’s brain to catch up. Dr. Cooper had recently lost his father and stepmother. Little Avery, who was Dr. Cooper’s half sister, was now his responsibility. That had certainly been a surprise, though it helped to explain a lot of the man’s behavior earlier that day. And then last, but in no way the least important, Dr. Cooper’s babysitter, the only one he had been able to find, had somehow gotten it into her head that she wouldn’t be needed any longer.

  Walking back into the house, baby giggles and the laughter of her daughter echoed throughout the great room and soothed away the stress that had filled Hannah just moments earlier. It was going to be all right. In a city as big as Houston, there had to be someone Dr. Cooper could hire to take care of his little sister.

  Looking around the rooms, she noticed the pile of dirty dishes in the kitchen sink and the trash can overflowing with diapers.

  “Come on, you two, let’s go explore this house and find this little one’s room so we can get her cleaned up. We have a lot to do before Dr. Cooper gets home.”

  And she would have a lot of explaining to do if Shelley had really meant she wasn’t coming back.

  Copyright © 2021 by Denise Chavers

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  ISBN-13: 9781488075049

  Unlocking the Rebel’s Heart

  Copyright © 2021 by Alison Roberts

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