Seasons of the Heart Series
Love on Mimosa Lane DeStefano 16
So . . . she’d decided a rough-and-tumble, equally detached man might be a better role model. A man who obviously loved and cherished his daughter. A man who’d been working himself to death and isolating himself from practically everyone in town since his divorce, trying to secure some peace with his ex-wife. An overwhelmed man she was asking to take on even more responsibility. Fin could learn so much from the discipline and focused intensity and teamwork that playing a game like soccer and working with a coach like Law could give him. “You said ‘reasons’?” Law asked, checking his watch. “What are they?” “What?” He slid her another sideways stare. Two seconds later, his attention was back on the playground. She could have sworn she’d felt him in her mind, his thoughts probing and tumbling through her disordered reasoning. “You said ‘among other reasons,’” he repeated. “Yes . . .” That glance, just that one moment of connection, and every thought in her head except the ones obsessed with him was a complete muddle. What was wrong with her? “Whatever they are, they must be pretty important,” he said, “for you to get me out of bed and down here to tell me that whatever I do or don’t do with my daughter is somehow any of your business.” “The matter I wanted to discuss is very important.” And Kristen was totally f-ing this up. His mood was taking a definite nosedive toward uncooperative. “And the fact is, Chloe’s only one of the kids I think your coaching would help. The other one . . . She’s spending a lot of time with one of our newest students, not all of it good, which is too bad, because . . .”