by Nadia S. Lee
“Most certainly.” Charlie twisted it open. “There you go.”
“I’m craving this so bad.” She took a bite of a spear, then a bite of a donut.
He raised both of his eyebrows, but wisely said nothing. A husband needed to know when to keep his mouth shut.
“Want some?” Molly offered Emilia a fresh spear.
Their daughter scrunched her face. “Ew. No, Mommy. So gross.”
Charlie and Molly laughed. He grabbed a chocolate-dipped cruller and watched his wife enjoy her donut and pickle combo.
When was she going to tell him? He knew she’d been with child for at least four weeks now, but she hadn’t spilled the news.
But then…did it matter? He watched with a wide grin as Molly and Emilia shared a joke and laughed. He had everything a man could want—a lovely wife, a beautiful daughter and a baby on the way.
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The Rocky Mountains hugged Chase Robert’s hometown of Silver Springs and snuggled him in comfort. He looked through the Italian Bistro window at the nearby peaks. They were rugged, like the ones in Jordan, but more comforting with glorious, snowy tops. Across the street, a man hung lights and he couldn’t wait until nightfall to see the twinkling Christmas lights he knew would decorate the city come night fall.
“It’s a culture shock at first, right?” Rex, his childhood buddy, pointed to the outside world. Cars passed, people passed, life passed.
“You could say that.” Chase scooped up his pizza, thankful he didn’t have to use a fork and knife to cut his food. Nothing worse for a one-handed man than fine dining.
The explosion of fresh, gooey, cheese and meats blending together with rich sauce firmly planted him home. He chewed and savored every hint of oregano and basil until he had his fill. “Hey, man. Thanks for letting me crash at the house. Can’t believe you own the Kelley mansion. That thing’s a beast.”
“Yep, and after David headed back to finish his last couple of months in the Marines, it’s been quiet. Ally is working a lot, Frank isn’t much for conversation, and Mia is busy caring for Frank. The house is too big for us, especially since Ally’s online business started booming. No one travels to see antiques anymore, they just have them shipped. Not sure what we’ll do with so much space, but none of us wants the house to fall to ruin.” Rex waved to a guy across the room that looked familiar. “Anyway, stay as long as you want.”
“Thanks, I can’t handle the family sympathy thing. I know you’d knock me upside the head if I asked you to bring me coffee in bed.”
“No doubt.” The man Rex had waved to crossed the room with a woman. It took a second, but Chase realized it was his cousin, Spike. But he didn’t know the girl he was clinging to.
“Hey, good to have you back home in one piece,” Spike offered his hand, but he flinched when Chase lifted his stump.
“How’s 9 and nine-tenths pieces?” Chase offered his left hand instead and did an awkward hand grip. “It’s the gimp shake, you’ll get used to it.”
Spike laughed, Rex laughed, the girl laughed. Chase exhaled with relief. It was all fun and games until someone got sympathy eyes and then that just made him mad.
“This is my girl, Amy Sanders. Amy, this is my cousin, Chase.”
She smiled, but kept her hands around Spike’s arm. She was sporting a simple, but bright engagement ring. Yep, they were a thing all right. Too bad Chase didn’t have a hand for a girl to cling to anymore. Of course, everyone kept telling him at the VA that at least he had his life.
“We’re headed out to meet Mike and Zach for a double ski date. Hey man, you should join us when you get settled.” Spike said, but Amy squeezed his arm as if to warn him to be sensitive to the one-armed man. He covered her hand with his own and gave a lopsided smile. “Anyway, good to see you. I’m sure we’ll run into each other soon. It’s not that big of a town.”
“Good to see you, too. And it was nice to meet you Amy.”
Amy did the head-tilt acknowledgment thing. “Nice to meet you too.”
Rex grabbed the check. “Ready to head over? I need to get to the to-do list that Ally created for me.”
“Still can’t believe you two got back together. Is she still as crazy as when she was younger? Her and that Melinda girl?”
“Watch it, that’s my wife you’re talking about.” He stood and headed for the register. “But yeah, she’s still crazy. Brilliant, beautiful, and crazy.”
“At least you know what you’ve got.”
“What about you? Any woman in your life? Some pen pal or something that you wrote to from Jordan?”
“Nope, not me. No woman has snagged my attention. The only woman that I’ve corresponded with is old nurse Mia. The woman that you told me to email my questions to. Thanks for that man, it’s weird asking the men at the VA how to button my pants with one hand.”
Rex quirked a brow at him. “Let me get this straight. The only woman that has captured your attention the last few years is the hospice nurse caring for my father?”
“Yep, that’s why you gave me her email, right? As a resource?”
Rex handed the girl behind the register the bill and a card. “Sure, that’s why I hooked you two up.”
“I’m actually looking forward to meeting her. I mean, that woman lost a brother when she was a kid to an explosion. She put herself through nursing school. It couldn’t have been easy back then. You know, women not marrying and going to school and stuff.”
“Yep, women back then had it tough.” Rex signed the receipt and slid his card back in his wallet. “Let’s head to the house to meet old nurse Mia.” They hopped in Rex’s truck and headed to the Kelley house. “So, what else do you like about old nurse Mia, qualities you wished women today possessed.”
Chase shrugged. “I don’t know. I guess the way she writes out emails instead of abbreviating everything. Women today always abbreviate to the point where I need some acronym chart to keep up. And she signs it Sincerely, Mia. That has a ring to it, right? It’s such an old-fashioned name.”
Rex bit his bottom lip as if he had something to say, but thought better of it.
“What?”
“Nothing. It’s just that you’ve always made an excuse when a woman tries to get close to you. You got momma issues or something?”
“No.” Chase adjusted in the seat. Relationships and truck seats always made him uncomfortable. “If I found the right girl, I’d commit, but they don’t exist anymore.”
“Only women like nurse Mia are worth knowing, so if she was your age you’d keep her around?” Rex asked.
“Yeah, you bet. I’m telling you man. I bet in her day she was beautiful. A real catch. Of course, she chose career over a man to take care of her, which I can respect. She’s got to be a strong willed, challenging woman. Of course, she’d have to be to put up with your pops.”
Rex lowered his head and sighed. “He’s sober, and he doesn’t have much of a fight left in him I’m afraid. It’s getting to the late stages.”
“Sorry, man.” Chase glanced out the window at their old haunts on Main street. Many of those places had stayed the same, but new businesses had popped up too. Things had changed, yet it still felt like home. “You ever struggle with guilt about making it back?”
Rex nodded three times. “Not so much since I married Ally. I’ve let a lo
t of that guilt go. Of course, I came home without any real injuries. You sacrificed for your country. In a weird way, I think I would’ve felt better with some sort of mark that I carried with me for my men.”
Chase shook his head. “Afraid it don’t work like that.” A flash of the explosion, and then a vision of waking in the hospital, shook him. A flashback. A warning that part of him was still fighting in the desert. As quickly as it came it was gone, life returned, and he changed the subject.
“You really don’t mind me crashing with you? I mean, you guys are still newlyweds. Seems like everyone in this town’s got someone.”
Rex turned up the hill and parked in the driveway. “Oh, I have a feeling you’ll fit right in soon enough.”
They hopped out of the truck, and Chase tugged his coat tight to stave off the bitter wind coming down from the mountains. Rex opened the front door into a warm, homey front entry, and a parlor straight out of an antique show off to the side with a roaring fire.
Chase stepped into the room and found a young woman with beautiful blue eyes and hourglass frame next to a crippled old man.
At second glance, he realized that was Rex’s father. The woman at his side was breathtaking. A stop you in your boots kind of beauty.
Rex dropped Chase’s duffle onto the floor and joined them. “Chase, you remember my father.”
Frank half-smiled up at him. “Heard you got your hand blown off.”
“Frank, you behave.” The beautiful woman at his side said. She rose to her tiny height of maybe five feet two inches tall. But what she lacked in height, she made up for in figure and beauty. Rex cleared his throat. “Oh, and this is old nurse, Mia.”
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The Roberts of Silver Springs Series
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About Nadia S. Lee
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Nadia Lee writes sexy, emotional contemporary romance. Born with a love for excellent food, travel and adventure, she has lived in four different countries, kissed stingrays, been bitten by a shark, ridden an elephant and petted tigers.
Currently, she shares a condo overlooking a small river and sakura trees in Japan with her husband and son. When she’s not writing, she can be found reading books by her favorite authors or planning another trip.
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