The breath-taking conclusion to the New York Times and USA Today bestselling series is expected to be released August 6, 2013.
Claire Nixon is a college student with a past full of secrets and heartbreak. She was saved once by her first love, and rock star, Chris Knight. But when she encouraged Chris to leave town to pursue his dreams, both Claire and Chris didn’t realize it would be the biggest mistake of their lives.
After a devastating year apart and thousands of miles of distance between them, Claire met sexy surfer Adam Parker. With his awful jokes and profound patience, he helped Claire pick up the shattered pieces of her broken heart for the second time.
But now Chris has returned and he is willing and determined to make Claire’s dreams come true—the same way she did for him when she let him go.
With Adam’s former girlfriend in the picture, Claire finds herself torn between the new, passionate love she shares with Adam and the love and family she shares with Chris
Chapter 5 – Adam
“Are you ready?” Lindsay asks.
Something about the way she asks this question makes me think she means something else. As if she’s asking whether I’m ready to forgive her and accept this routine of helping her out until she gets a car. The answer to both of those is definitely not.
“Yeah, let’s go.”
Lindsay has never had a problem holding a conversation. She chatters nonstop on the way to the clinic about how her mother, Lillian, is still living with her “asshole” stepfather in Carolina Beach even though he’s cheated on her more times than she can remember. One thing I never understood about Lindsay was why she always got upset over things she couldn’t change. Or, maybe I’m just too accepting of things that should be changed.
“Why do you still visit her if it upsets you so much?” I ask as I pull into the clinic parking lot.
“Adam, I’ve told you this a million times. She deserves better. I’m not going to give up on my mom, but I refuse to live with them.”
“You need to learn to let that stuff go.”
“Oh, really? And when was the last time you spoke to your dad?”
“That’s not the same. My dad and I have totally different issues.”
“Yeah, I’ve heard that before.”
“Anyway, that’s besides the point. You’re going to have to get over your hatred of your stepdad if you don’t get a job and a roommate soon.”
She draws in a long stuttered breath as she turns to look out the window.
“I didn’t mean that the way it sounded.”
“It’s fine,” she says, still looking out the window. “I know I must seem like a total loser to you now; getting pregnant before graduation and letting Nathan convince me to wait to get a job until the baby was born.”
“You’re not a loser. I don’t think that.” I pull my truck into a parking space and glance over my shoulder at the car seat as I kill the engine. “But you can’t start feeling sorry for yourself and depending on me to dig you out of this. You ripped my heart out and pretty much ruined my life.”
“I apologized for what I did to you. And I’m not the one who made you beat the crap out of Nathan.”
“I don’t want to talk about that right now. The point is that you can’t depend on me. I’m not the person I was when we were together. I’ve moved on.” She finally turns to face me and the hurt in her eyes makes my stomach twist. “I’ll help you out with this stuff for the baby, but you need to get a car or a bus pass or something soon. I can’t keep doing this.”
She looks like she’s about to cry, but she quickly composes herself and climbs down out of the truck. I hurry over to her side to help her get the baby out of the car seat since the truck is raised. Kaia wakes up when I pull her out of her car seat. She scrunches her eyes and stretches her arms as her mouth opens wide as if she’s about to start wailing, but she doesn’t. I hand her over to Lindsay and she has a smile on her face.
“What are you smiling at?”
She shakes her head and smiles. I’m pretty certain she saw the panic on my face as I anticipated Kaia’s screams.
“Nothing,” she whispers as she takes Kaia in her arms.
As I watch her kiss Kaia’s forehead and comfort her, I’m reminded of the time when I assumed that Lindsay and I would be getting married and raising a child together. It’s funny how nothing really ever turns out the way we expect it to, no matter how certain the future seems. I guess we need to keep adjusting our dreams to fit reality, because life is not going to cooperate. Maybe this makes me a defeatist, but I’d prefer to think of myself as a realist.
As we walk toward the clinic, my phone vibrates in my pocket. I pull it out and smile instantly when I see a good morning text from Claire.
“Is that her?”
I look up from the screen and quickly pull open the door for Lindsay to enter the clinic. “Yes. And her name is Claire.”
And she’s the most beautifully broken girl I’ve ever met.
Bio
USA Today bestselling author Cassia Leo loves her coffee, chocolate, and margaritas with salt. When she's not writing, she spends way too much time watching old reruns of Friends and Sex and the City. When she's not watching reruns, she's usually enjoying the California sunshine or reading--sometimes both.
Author website http://cassialeo.com
Goodreads book link http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17884886-bring-me-home
Throughout this series I have loved Claire & Adam - hated Chris.
Then I loved both Adam & Chris & was not to happy with Claire.
Now I love them all!
I wasn't sure who I wanted Claire to end up with but I felt like someone was going to get hurt if not all of them. . As the story goes on it's clear who Clare should be with and the author did a fabulous job making it so the odd man out wasn't so hurt. This book is more mushy than the other 2 books but not in a way that made me want to throw up in my mouth. There is still some tense moments.
Some hot sex scenes - nothing graphic or raunchy.
Fabulous Ending!
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