Light This Candle (Harlequin More Than Words)
“Man, it had been hard to look into that woman’s eyes and not believe he was somehow responsible for the tragedy she’d suffered. He knew without question there was nothing he could have done to save Jimmy, but that didn’t make it any easier to face the man’s widow.
She looked so young. Small and slender, her light brown hair in a youthful ponytail. At a glance, he’d have guessed she was about sixteen. But then he’d peered into her eyes. The suffering written there had made her look older tha...n time.
He hadn’t had the nerve to ask about her kid. He spied a nurses’ station ahead and realized that the curving hallway he’d just left must run along a semicircular bank of intensive care rooms, all of which had glass fronts facing the station. He stepped into the brightly lit hub.
“Can I help you?” a woman in bold blue scrubs asked him.
“Hi. I’m Mitch McConnell. What can you tell me about Cody Frazier’s condition?”MoreLess
She looked so young. Small and slender, her light brown hair in a youthful ponytail. At a glance, he’d have guessed she was about sixteen. But then he’d peered into her eyes. The suffering written there had made her look older tha...n time.
He hadn’t had the nerve to ask about her kid. He spied a nurses’ station ahead and realized that the curving hallway he’d just left must run along a semicircular bank of intensive care rooms, all of which had glass fronts facing the station. He stepped into the brightly lit hub.
“Can I help you?” a woman in bold blue scrubs asked him.
“Hi. I’m Mitch McConnell. What can you tell me about Cody Frazier’s condition?”MoreLess
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