Every Touch: The Brush Of Love Series, #5
By Lexy Timms
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USA Today Bestselling Author, Lexy Timms, finishes her tale about a young man and the sensitive artist who has changed his life.
Bryan McBride is basking in the glow of his newborn son. Despite the recent trouble erupting his wife’s checkered past, they are now living happily together in their new house. She’s tired, but happy, and he’s continuing to do good work at the charitable foundation.
Soon Hailey’s exhaustion leads to a dark path. She decides a few pills here and there won’t hurt. She just needs a little help with sleep, or so she convinces herself.
When her little nighttime aid turns into a full-blown addiction, Bryan is thrust into a nightmare: drugs are beginning to destroy his wife, just as they helped destroy his brother.
Hailey’s love pulled him back from the brink of the abyss, but now he’s not sure if he can do the same for her.
Fans of Nicholas Sparks will love this sweet-with-heat love story EVERY TIME.
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Every Touch - Lexy Timms
Every Touch
The Brush Of Love Series, Volume 5
Lexy Timms
Published by Dark Shadow Publishing, 2018.
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
EVERY TOUCH
First edition. February 9, 2018.
Copyright © 2018 Lexy Timms.
ISBN: 978-1386884989
Written by Lexy Timms.
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USA TODAY BESTSELLING Author, Lexy Timms, finishes her tale about a young man and the sensitive artist who has changed his life.
Bryan McBride is basking in the glow of his newborn son. Despite the recent trouble erupting his wife’s checkered past, they are now living happily together in their new house. She’s tired, but happy, and he’s continuing to do good work at the charitable foundation.
Soon Hailey’s exhaustion leads to a dark path. She decides a few pills here and there won’t hurt. She just needs a little help with sleep, or so she convinces herself.
When her little nighttime aid turns into a full-blown addiction, Bryan is thrust into a nightmare: drugs are beginning to destroy his wife, just as they helped destroy his brother.
Hailey’s love pulled him back from the brink of the abyss, but now he’s not sure if he can do the same for her.
Fans of Nicholas Sparks will love this sweet-with-heat love story EVERY TIME.
Contents
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Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Epilogue
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Chapter 1
Bryan
IT WAS DARK. DARK AND quiet. There were no birds chirping or breakfast cooking. There were no sounds of the shower or the dull roar of the bathroom fan. Little Johnny wasn’t crying, and the moonlight wasn’t shining through the windowpanes of the room.
There was nothing. And it was disorienting.
Stretching out, I slid my hand over toward Hailey. Something felt wrong. Off. Like the dead of silence held the deepest of secrets. For the first month of Little Johnny’s life, I had dealt with nightmares, recurring ones of my brother spiraling on his drugs. I kept dreaming about the first time I’d ever seen him high, how he stumbled into my bedroom with his bloodshot eyes and his glassy stare. I kept dreaming about the first time my parents ever found out. My father had grabbed him by his arm and yelled in his face, trying to pull him out of his drug-induced haze with his voice.
It was like talking to a wall of Jell-O.
I had terrifying nightmares, dreams of my son growing up and following in those same footsteps and dreams of what my son might look like in his teenage years, stumbling home from a drunken high school party. I had nightmares of looking down at my son and seeing a miniaturized version of my brother with a needle sticking out of his arm and blood dripping from his eyes.
It was always the sound of my infant son crying that pulled me from my nightmares, but tonight was something different.
It was the loneliness that pulled me from my slumber.
My arm slid across the spot where Hailey should’ve been. Instead of finding her warm, comforting body, all I felt was cold. The sheets had cooled, and the comforter hadn’t been bothered. I rolled over to snuggle into her pillow to try and find slumber again, but I couldn’t smell her.
Had she even lain down for the night yet?
Neither of us was getting much sleep. Little Johnny was an eater, waking up six, sometimes seven, times a night just to feed. I was thankful for the time Ellen had given me off work to help with caring for Hailey, because she was worse off from her surgery than we all could’ve imagined. It was hard, thinking that a caesarian section was major surgery. In my mind, during the whirlwind hours of our son’s birth, the only thing that ran through my mind was that she had given birth, not that she had undergone major surgery.
But even with as tired as I was, Hailey had it worse. I tried to get her to pump bottles for me so I could take over some of the feedings, but her body wasn’t agreeing with it. She could feed Johnny just fine, but when she pumped, she was lucky to get an ounce at a time. I took maybe three feedings throughout the course of a week, but the rest fell on Hailey’s shoulders.
Neither of us was getting the sleep we needed but Hailey especially. She needed the rest to recuperate from everything her body had been through. She needed to be able to sleep more than two consecutive hours with Johnny on her breast. She needed to be able to close her eyes, get into a deep sleep, and awaken with a renewed sense of vigor.
All of this was wearing Hailey down, and I could see it in the way she carried herself.
I figured Hailey was up feeding the baby, so I rolled over to try and go back to sleep. But as I listened out for the baby monitor, there was nothing going on. Whenever I woke up from a nightmare and Hailey wasn’t there, the soothing sounds of her singing to our son over the monitor would always lull me back to sleep. It would always put a smile on my face and remind me that things weren’t as bad as they were in my dreams. Hailey’s motherly singing voice would always give me hope that Johnny would live up to the positive aspects of his namesake and not the negative.
But tonight, there wasn’t any singing.
Grunting, I sat up in bed. Opening my eyes was like trying to unearth a manhole, but once they were open, I got to my feet. I wanted to go check on them and make sure everything was okay. Hailey tended to fall asleep while feeding Johnny, which always made for a pleasant sight. However, it didn’t always make for a safe place for Johnny to sleep, and the last thing we needed was him rolling out of her arms and onto the carpeted floor of his nursery.
I reached for my robe and threw it around my shoulders. The clock was ticking by at half past two in the morning. I shuffled down the small hallway and stood at our son’s door, smiling before I entered. This room was always so peaceful to me. With Hailey’s painting on the wall and our son safe in a crib I had made with my own two hands, it brought a comfort to my soul I’d never experienced before. Having a child had changed me in ways I could have never imagined, and Little Johnny was only a month old.
I could only imagine the changes to come as he continued to grow into the man he was destined to become.
I expected to see Hailey snoozing in the rocker recliner. I expected Johnny’s little lips to be latched around her nipple with milk dribbling down his chin. But instead of finding the decadent sight that always filled my heart with joy, I found nothing.
Well, not nothing. Johnny was sleeping in his crib, and the rocker recliner was vacant.
I walked over to my son and patted him on the head. He was cool, which meant he probably hadn’t woken up in a little while. He wasn’t warm from being cradled against Hailey’s body, which meant she hadn’t been in here recently.
So where in the world was she?
I was worried about where my wife had gone. A thousand things could have happened to her. She could’ve ruptured a stitch and been bleeding on the floor somewhere. She could have fallen in the bathroom and not been able to call out for me. She could have gone downstairs and choked on something she was eating in her exhaustion-induced stupor. My heart was hammering against my chest, but I resisted the urge to call out into the house.
The last thing I needed was to wake our son.
I inched out of Johnny’s room and closed the door behind me. I made my way down the stairs, my eyes darting around the floor level of the house. I walked around the kitchen, looking for any signs of distress. I went into the living room, thinking maybe she had come downstairs, made a snack, and fallen asleep. I even checked the dining room, just to make sure she wasn’t sitting there and staring off.
I had caught her doing that a couple of times recently.
When I couldn’t find her downstairs, I made my way back upstairs. I checked all the rooms and threw open all the bathrooms.