Free Secured Secret by Charity Parkerson

of hope in the light of Weave’s understanding of her pain. It wasn’t her fault, and now there was Shannon. So long as they held onto one another, everything else would be fine.

CHAPTER SIX
    Eleven months later- Murfreesboro, Tennessee
    It was the great beef jerky vs. ice cream show-down that kept Shannon staring at the clear door in the frozen-food section of Jimmy’s food mart. At seven months pregnant, Genie’s cravings were at best unpredictable and he didn’t want to come home with the wrong thing, again—she owned a gun. His cell phone rang as he reached for the ice cream, and he held it to his ear as he opened the freezer door. “Just get both, damn.”
    He smiled at the sound of Genie’s irritated voice. “How did you know I was waffling?”
    “Because I know you . Please, please come home. Your daughter is tap dancing on my bladder and my back hurts, and I’m really just missing you.”
    “Maybe I should leave this cart sitting here and come home,” the silence he met with nearly made him laugh aloud, but he wasn’t quite that stupid.
    “Okay you got fifteen minutes,” she conceded with a grumble. Then she added, “Oh, and grab the chocolate sauce as you walk by.”
    “Am I wearing a camera?” Shannon asked, glancing down his body.
    Genie lowered her voice seductively. “I’ve got plans for that chocolate sauce.”
    Shannon stopped dead in his tracks, yanking the sauce from the shelf before taking off at a fast clip towards the register. “I’ll be home in ten minutes tops.”
    THE END

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
    Charity Parkerson is an award winning and multi-published author with Ellora's Cave Publishing, Midnight Books, and Punk & Sissy Publications. Born with no filter from her brain to her mouth, she decided to take this odd quirk and insert it in her characters.
    *2013 Readers' Favorite Award winner
*ARRA Finalist for Favorite Paranormal Romance
*Five-time winner of The Mistress of the Darkpath
*Named one of the top 10 best books by an Indie author in 2011- Paranormal Reads Reviews
*Best Paranormal Romance of 2012- Paranormal Reads Reviews
*Quoted in the Sydney Morning Herald as an authority on Independent Publishing.
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