Heartburn: An Everyday Heroes World Novel (The Everyday Heroes World) by Tarrah Anders (best ebook reader .TXT) 📗

whole lot of therapy. Which lead to a lot of other types of therapy once I heard that my girlfriend, who was carrying my child was gone.

I didn’t know if both of them were okay or not. No one would tell me anything, even The Gazette reported nothing, and that’s quite the gossip rag.

So, I pushed myself, hard. I did what I could to make it to where I am today and now Kindra is back.

And I have the details I’ve always wanted.

She lost the baby during the accident. The blunt force trauma to her stomach from the accident did her body no favors.

There was no baby.

She left because her parents told her to get out. I never went after her because I was told not to.

But what confuses me is why she took so long to come back. Why didn’t she come back all this time?

“Dude, I hear that your ex is back in town. Talk about a blast from the past.” My friend Jeff says as he sits down on the stool beside me.

I blow out a breath and nod while replying, “yeah, she works with me at the hospital, she and I are on the same shifts a few nights a week.”

“Wow, talk about fucking awkward. Did you tell Karin that your one true love came back?”

“Karin and I broke up.”

“No shit? You finally kicked barbie to the curb!” He slaps the tabletop. “Wait, is it because of the ex?”

“She just couldn’t deal with my work being important, then she kept asking me to move in together.”

“Oh no! That would have been the worst. She would have complained even more about how you were never home and all that shit if you guys were living together.” Jeff says before throwing a french fry into his mouth.

“No kidding.” I agree.

“So, Kindra,” Jeff prompts.

“What about her?”

“Where’s she been?”

“She’s been in the city.”

“No shit! How come you didn’t know that? That’s so close.”

“The city is a big place. Also, I was told by her dad to never come near her again.”

“That was when you guys were kids, you had to of looked her up on social media or something.”

“I haven’t opened my Facebook account since the day I created the account, and then I just left it up to fate. Work and school consumed me, and now here she is.”

“True. You were absolutely no fun while you were in med-school. You were a pretty shitty friend back then. You never liked to get drunk with me, hook up with chicks, or hit up the bars in the city. Oh shit, I wonder if I was ever in the same place as she was when I was bar hopping.” He says to himself. “But yeah man, you were pretty boring back then.”

“Yeah, but look at us now,” I spread my arms over the table in triumph.

“You, a fancy small-town doctor, and me a handsome and very well-dressed businessman.” Jeff brushes his hand across his chest.

“Yes, well-dressed. Isn’t that my jacket though?” I joke with him.

“Oh, shut up. I can buy my own clothes, you asshole.” He shoves my shoulder. “So, back to Kindra. What happened there? When will Uncle Jeff get to play with the kid?”

“Well, she lost the baby.” I say with sadness in my tone as my fingertips pull at the label on my beer bottle.

“No shit? Why didn’t she ever tell you?”

“Fear, more than anything.” I say shaking my head. “I just wish that I didn’t listen to her father.”

Jeff’s hand lands on my shoulder and I swing my head to look at him.

“How are you doing with this new information?” He asks.

“At first, I wanted to punch everything in sight. I wanted to yell and scream, and I wanted to just shake her and ask her why she never got in contact. But I know that she went through a lot too. I know it wasn’t all about me, and I couldn’t blame her.”

“But man, she held that information from you for so long. You’ve thought all this time that you were a father. She just up and left you, man.”

“I know. And I forgave her for that shit a long time ago. But my head is still trying to wrap around everything.”

“Man, you’re a bigger man than I could ever be.” Jeff shakes his head. “So, does that mean that you will be taking her back?”

I think about it. From the moment that I saw her in her scrubs in my emergency room, I felt the spark ignite and I wanted her. And when we ended up in bed the other night together, I was wrong in telling her it was a mistake. It was everything I had ever wanted since the morning I woke up in that hospital bed right before I was supposed to have shoulder surgery.

“I don’t know what it means man,” I admit. “It may mean a lot of something, or it could just mean nothing. I’m not sure, just yet.”

“Well, I’ll tell you this. Maybe Kindra coming back to town is a sign for you two. I mean, you know that I don’t believe in a lot of that star-crossed lovers’ shit. But I know that you’ve always held a candle for that woman, and that will not change.”

I look over to my friend and smile.

He’s right about that.

She’s familiar and someone that I loved desperately, even after all these years.

I knew that if she came back to Sunnyville that there was no chance in hell that I could deny my feelings for her. She’s single and so am I. We’re both adults and we’re not breaking any rules. There are no rules.

We were stupid kids back then. If we didn’t get into that accident, then we would have likely fucked up the kid in one way or another, possibly not having the child it was for the best.

So, while I should hold a lot more animosity toward her, especially for just up and leaving without