Read Online I Don't Dance (Freebirds Book 6) by Lani Lynn Vale - Free Book Online

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    Elliott
    Christmas Number 6
    “This Christmas is bittersweet, little man,” I said softly to my son, Justin Douglas.
    Justin smiled a gummy smile at me, making me realize all that I had in my life. How lucky I was to be here.
    I could be six feet under like Dougie is. Like my first son wa s. I thought morosely.
    I can’t believe it’s been nearly two years since we lost our child.
    It seemed like just yesterday I came home to a massive amount of blood coating the bed and the bathroom, as well as a note from Blaine explaining what had happened.
    That’d been gut wrenching.
    Then my son cooed, and all thoughts of my dead friend and lost child were pushed back. Not gone. Not forgotten. But in a place that they should be. A place that Dougie and our son would always live. My heart.
    In the last year, things had changed quickly. So quickly that I hadn’t even had time to catch a breath.
    But Blaine had been there with me every step of the way.
    She’d nearly died in the process, too.
    My eyes squeezed tight as I thought about that day, less than three months ago, when my sweet Blaine had nearly been taken from me.

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    “What do you mean, she’s in labor?” I bellowed loudly.
    I’d just dropped my mother off at her new house that her and my father had bought. They’d wanted to move closer so they could be in their first grandchild’s life. Which suited me. I wanted them to be there.
    Although, I’d thought that they had nearly a month to go before we got to see the baby. Not less than an hour.
    “She’s in labor. And she’s in the elevator stuck between floors,” Sam said calmly.
    In an elevator; at a baby store.
    Too calmly.
    “Is she okay?” I asked worriedly, my foot pressing down further on the accelerator without conscious thought.
    My question was answered, not by Sam, but by my wife.
    Her scream tore through me, ripping straight through my flesh and settling deep into my heart where it sat heavily, weighing me down with its intensity.
    “Ahh, she’s not liking anyone much right now. She’s pretty adamant about pain meds, but since no one can get in there, they won’t give her any. Gabe’s in there with her though, so she’s not alone,” Sam answered quickly, sensing the unease in my voice.
    My heart didn’t settle, and my foot didn’t lift from the gas.
    “I’ll be there as soon as I can,” I managed to grit out, weaving in and out of traffic like I was a madman.
    I called Gabe once I hung up with Sam, listening to the yelling coming from Blaine the entire way there.
    Why they had to go out of town to a fuckin’ Babies R’ Fuckin’ Us, I didn’t know. Although I was fairly confident that that wasn’t the name she’d used, but right now that’s all my mind kept repeating back to me.
    The one goddamn time she goes out of the city, I’m half an hour away from her.
    Scratch that. I made it within twenty minutes, but still.
    I’d even managed to miss any and all cops on the way there, which was a miracle.
    I wouldn’t have stopped, and I’d have had half a dozen cops following me to my wife.
    I parked in the fire lane, unsurprised by the fire truck, ambulance, and two police cars.
    “Sir, we’re gonna need you to move your car,” a police officer said from behind me.
    I lifted my hand with the phone in it. “My wife’s in there having our baby. I don’t have time.”
    He let me go with a nod, and I ran through the store, the phone pressed to my ear, following the commotion to the elevator at the very fucking back of the store. The lights that were surrounding the area were the only ones on in the entire building, so it wasn’t exactly hard to find.
    “Sam!” I yelled loudly, causing my captain to turn and regard me.
    He took in my frantic appearance quickly, before steering me towards the elevator where two medics were standing to the side while three firefighters worked on getting the elevator open.
    “Is she okay?” I asked frantically.
    I was answered with