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    A Divorce For Christmas
    A Divorce For Christmas
    A Divorce For Christmas
    Ebook38 pages33 minutes

    A Divorce For Christmas

    By Lavada Dee

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    All Lori Harper can think of is having a baby. But it isn’t proving to be easy so she has ramped up her efforts. With How-To-Books in hand she has become a woman with a mission. With ‘things’ down to the clinical, Brad is feeling anything but amorous. In fact he has had enough of the command performances.

    Unable to live this way any longer Brad asks for a divorce. Lori is so caught up in her body and getting pregnant that she is blindsided. To make matters worse things come to a head right after a very unsatisfactory frustrating act that Brad has barely been able to complete.

    Lori is at first in denial but when Brad rents an apartment she asks for time. Christmas in less than a month away and their families are intertwined to an extent that it will affect everyone’s holiday. Besides she is still convinced Brad will change his mind.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLavada Dee
    Release dateOct 25, 2012
    ISBN9781301450510
    A Divorce For Christmas
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    Lavada Dee

    Lavada Dee writes Contemporary and Romantic Suspense. She loves to read and gained a love of the romance genre from sneaking her Mother’s True Confessions from under the bed. That was many many many years ago and she has since advanced into reading just about every genre out there. From a love of reading she naturally evolved into writing.She lives in the Pacific Northwest where they encourage friends to drop in. While's it's impossible for all of us to physically drop in to chat we can do it via cyburspace. She loves to get better acquainted with you and invites you to subsribe to her Blog/News on her website.

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    • 2/5
      I would have liked to have seen their reactions to finding out about the pregnancy after so much heartache.
    • 4/5
      Lovely short read❤️the message is loud and clear,Lori needed to realise that she loved Brad more than anything, with kids or without them.Brad was loyal to her,no cheating,he loved his wife only and wanted to have a lovely life with her.At times couples trying to have kids forgets that kids are additional gift,it's their love tha t is only important ?

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    A Divorce For Christmas - Lavada Dee

    A Divorce For Christmas

    By Lavada Dee

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    Chapter 1

    Brad ground his teeth to keep the oath he wanted to shout from escaping. He rolled away from Lori and lifted his arms over his head. Moonlight filtered in from the window and danced across the bed. His breathing slowed and the room fell silent with nothing but the click of the electric clock disturbing it. This had to stop. He couldn’t do it anymore. He was through! Quitting! No more command performances. With new resolve he swung his feet out of bed and pulled on his briefs and pants.

    What are you doing? Lori sounded concerned but not enough to risk moving. Nothing short of a fire would get her out of bed. No, the latest in a long list of how-to-get-pregnant books said not to move for at least a half an hour after intercourse. Knowing Lori she’d probably still be lying in the same position in the morning.

    Brad headed for the door, but with second thoughts strode around the bed and nudged Lori’s leg for a spot to sit.

    Don’t.

    Don’t? For cripes sake Lori, moving your leg isn’t going to make a damn bit of difference. I doubt that fiasco we just performed impregnated you and . . . His voice trailed off. He took a breath and continued. And, I sincerely hope it didn’t because . . . Again he couldn’t finish what he was trying to say. He took another deep breath and tried to ease the pain around his heart. I don’t think I want children anymore.

    Lori gasped at his words. A tear trickled out of the corners of her eyes and he felt like a heel. A sob escaped with her words. I don’t understand. You’ve always wanted a family. You said you wanted two, maybe three. We planned it all out and have been trying for over a year. Another sob escaped.

    Brad handed Lori a tissue. He was hurting and now she was, too. He’d tried, heaven only knew how much, but with all her concentration on a baby she didn’t hear him when he asked her to give all the time schedules a rest and just enjoy each other and let nature have a chance. She wouldn’t even consider counseling when he asked her to go with him.

    Still he’d never meant to say the things he had or at least he hadn’t

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