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Matthew's Choice. Patricia Bradley
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isbn 9781474006989
Автор произведения Patricia Bradley
Жанр Контркультура
Серия Mills & Boon Heartwarming
Издательство HarperCollins
The kitten stared plaintively at him when he opened the door and immediately hushed its crying. He picked up the bowl and refilled it. Voices came from the other room. Women’s voices. Matt placed the bowl beside the kitten and guided it to the milk. “You’re on your own, kiddo,” he said and went to wash his hands.
Then he stepped into the living room and stopped. “Allie?”
Jessica’s gaze went from Allie to him. “You didn’t tell me Clint’s sister was stopping by.”
Something was wrong. Bad wrong. It was stamped in the way Allie stood, in the slump of her shoulders, in her face. “What’s going on?”
“Matt, I don’t know how to tell you... Mariah is in the hospital. Your sister may not make it. And her son has run away from the shelter.”
He didn’t know why he felt so surprised.
“Sister?” Jessica turned to him. “You never said anything about a sister.”
“Everybody, just sit down.” He sank into the hard leather chair closest to him and looked at Allie. “What happened?”
“I’m not sure. All I know is she overdosed on heroin and her little boy has run away from the person who was looking after him temporarily,” Allie said. “You’ll have to ask Peter Elliott exactly what happened.”
He missed whatever she said next. Peter Elliott? He was taken aback the great man hadn’t already called to rub Matt’s nose in the news. Mariah. What have you done? His sister might be two years older, but he’d always taken care of her until she ran off with that Connors thug. He realized Allie had asked him something. “I’m sorry, I didn’t—”
“I have the hospital number, if you want it.” She held a slip of paper out toward him.
Matt folded his arms across his chest. “I don’t know what you expect me to do. I tried to talk to Mariah when she first started using—after Connors introduced her to drugs. She didn’t listen then, and I doubt that anything has changed. I’m sorry, but she made her choice a long time ago.”
And he had made his when he left Cedar Grove. He just never thought his past would choose today to catch up with him.
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