His Haunted Heart Page 18

  He laughed. “She’s almost six months old and you haven’t left her side. What are you worried about?”

  “Nothing.” I answered, turning my face away from him.

  “I told you. There’s no sign of her. I’ve had people on the lookout.”

  On one of his trips to the city, Porter noticed that everything about that woman, the one who held our fate in her hands, had vanished.

  Of course she had vanished. She had collected her steep debt.

  “I know. What if something happens and we’re too far away?”

  “My mother raised me and I turned out fine.”

  A raised eyebrow gave away my inner sarcasm.

  “Oh, I saw that! Well, at least your sense of humor is intact. Come on, let’s not smother the beauty. Anyway, I kind of want you to myself for a change.”

  “How can I deny that?”

  He took our daughter in his hands, leaving me cold from her absence.

  “Let’s go. We’ll decide what to do later.”

  As he gazed down into our baby girl’s eyes with one hand cradling her head and the other balancing her bottom in his hands I could see who he was had shifted since I’d come into his life.

  Once I thought I couldn’t bring anything to him but shame and pain.

  Once he thought his life would lead nowhere.

  He was the cure for my steadfast loneliness and search for belonging.

  And I was the cure for his haunted heart.

  Other works by Lila Felix:

  The love and Skate Series:

  Love and Skate

  How It rolls

  Down n derby

  Caught in a jam

  False start

  The Second jam (a love and skate spin-off novel)

  Bayou bear chronicles:

  Burden

  Hearten

  ENGRAVEN (Spring 2015)

  Forced autonomy (a dystopian novella serial)

  Until she walked in

  Heartbreaker

  Dethroning crown

  Seeking havok

  Emerge

  Perchance

  hoax

  Lila’s Antics:

  www.lilafelix.com

  www.authorlilafelix.blogspot.com

  www.facebook.com/authorlilafelix

  twitter: @authorlilafelix

  email: authorlilafelix@gmail.com

  Acknowledgements:

  To Mr. Felix: I hope you always haunt my heart. These trials we are going through will one day be over and the hospital will be a faint memory.

  To the Rink Rats: I wish you could see the smile that comes to my face when I think about the love and support you all show me. I’m overwhelmed.

  To Anne Eliot: Thanks for opening my eyes, no matter how many toothpicks it takes.

  Ashleigh Russell: Your friendship never fails.

  Felicia Tatum: My new friend, I am so blessed to have you.