What Love Can Do (HOME TO GREEN VALLEY #1) by Virna DePaul EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Virna DePaul
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Well, that’s it then. I called Dad when I heard the news that Mom
passed. I told him I wanted to come home and see him and my sisters, and
what did he say? “We don’t have a daughter named Maggie. You must have
the wrong number.” Click, he hung up on me. Some family, huh? So I guess
I won’t be needing you anymore, Diary. I have a life now and a beautiful
baby boy, and more than enough to keep me busy. Besides, looking through
these pages hurts so very much.
So long from Dublin,
M.
Quinn O’Neill stared at the journal entry dated December 1989. He’d been
a year old when it was written, and in the time since, “M,” his mam, had
given him four brothers and enough love to last a lifetime. It had to last a
lifetime now that Mam, like his father, was gone from this earth.
With a weary sigh, Quinn leaned back against the closet door of his
mam’s bedroom. He’d been sitting on the floor, going through the old
leather trunk he’d found inside.
The trunk that held the secrets of Mam’s past.
Just an hour ago, he’d been sitting in the living room, studying his four
brothers’ waiting expressions, the range of green to blue eyes. They’d
gotten them all—Brady had Mam’s blue, Conor had Mamó’s green, even
Dad’s brown went to Quinn and the twins—an assortment of the O’Neill
Clan. In all their eyes, Quinn had seen grief mixed with indecision. Their
mam hadn’t left instructions for after she was gone, yet as always his
brothers looked to him for guidance.
The gravity of that weighed on him like ten pints of the black stuff.
First their dad had died of a heart attack two years ago, just months after
the family restaurant, The Cranky Yankee, was severely damaged in a
kitchen fire. Quinn had been twenty six at the time and still playing pro
rugby, but once Dad died, Mam needed a new man of the house to help with
the restaurant and his brothers, so Quinn had quit the team and stepped up.
Then, five days ago—Mam. Only fifty years old. Brain aneurysm. Now,
their matriarch was gone. Only five of them left, and Quinn head of
household. It had been a lot for him to take in.
He’d entered Mam’s bedroom hoping to find answers. Now he had
them, and eventually he had to join his brothers and tell them what he’d
learned.
Many bedtimes ago, Mam had lulled him to sleep with stories of a
faraway place where the grapes turned to gold, but Quinn had always just
assumed she was making the tales up. Now he knew it was a real place.
Rummaging through the trunk, he plucked one photo out. It was of
young Maggie O’Neill, definitely before the O’Neill, wearing cornflower
blue bell bottoms. She sat on the edge of a rickety bridge with her legs
dangling over a narrow creek, holding onto the railing.
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