Mission: From Divorcee to Millionaire

Chapter 699

"I'm sorry, I love you?"

"You've got a tongue like a whip, always firing off words like a machine gun when you're being sarcastic. But now? You can't find a single word?"

"Who cares about your 'sorry' and 'I love you'? Who asked you to make decisions for me? You think hiding your illness and playing the martyr is some grand gesture? You're just wallowing in self-pity. Did you ever stop to ask what I wanted?"

If it weren't for this infuriating man being laid up in bed, sick as a dog, Selena would have really let him have it.

Is there anyone else in this world as maddening as him?

Selena called him a jerk, a total idiot, a scoundrel. She ran through every insult in her book.

But the man in bed didn't react like he usually did, with a scowl and a quick move to shut her up with a kiss.

"Get up if you dare! Aren't you always the one pushing me around? I'm right here, Everett. Are you chickening out? Being a coward?"

"You never asked if I wanted what you were giving. You think you're so noble, don't you? In my eyes, you're the biggest fool and jerk around!"

She released Everett's hand, stood up, and leaned in close, her lips nearly brushing his ear as she spoke each word with purpose.

"Everett, you have to survive, come back to see me and the kids, or I swear, if you don't make it, I'll remarry the next day and let your child call someone else Daddy. I'll make sure you wear a green hat in your grave!"

"I mean it!"

Whether Everett heard her or not, the heart monitor next to him, which had been tracing steady lines, suddenly blipped upward.

at it and

more, gave Everett one last, lingering look, then

dimmed, and dawn was

the two kids,

red-rimmed. She hadn't expected the man to go to such lengths for his wife.

dad to worry,

little Haley, usually so full of joy, seemed to sense the gravity of the

pushed open Dr. Campbell's office

"Dr. Campbell, I've decided."

the equipment was. Even

fully recovered

it failed, he

loaded onto a

held Mateo's hand at the airport fence, watching the plane fade into the

his eyes

will Dad come

her son's hand. "He will. We'll

summer, autumn to

At the Irwin Estate.

now, though still bit wobbly. She

towards Selena, who

the

into her mother's arms but stumbled just a step away, falling to the