“Rumor has it they spent the night of the wedding together.” Linc knew Elmer wouldn’t be shocked by that news. Having eighteen grandchildren had taught him to go with the flow.
“Is that right? Well, good for him to be getting back in the game. I’ve worried about him.”
“Molly and I have, too. He’s a wonderful father to Caden, but he hasn’t been the same since Chloe made him a single parent.”
“How could he be? That’s an awful lot of responsibility, no matter how old you are. What do you think of him with Caroline?”
“She seems like a lovely girl, but there’s some significant geography between them.”
“True. It’s not insurmountable, but it’s a challenge, for sure.” Elmer stirred cream into the cup of fresh coffee Megan had poured for him. “On another note, did you notice that after she finished taking pictures at the wedding, Izzy danced the night away with Cabot?”
“I did notice that.”
“What do we think of that pairing?”
“He’s quite a bit older than her.”
“Only ten years or so. That’s no big deal these days.”
“No, it isn’t.”
“And I think I actually saw our Noah crack a grin or two while we were in Boston. Oh, how I’ve worried about that boy.”
“I know. Me, too.”
“There may be hope for him yet.”
“We’ve still got a lot of work to do around here.”
“That we do. This is no time to rest on our laurels.”
Linc raised his coffee mug to Elmer. “Here’s to true love.”
Elmer touched his mug to Linc’s. “To true love.”
The Abbotts return on Christmas Eve 2020 with a very special look back at Lincoln and Molly’s beginning.
LET IT BE
Butler, Vermont Series Book 6
The heart wants what the heart wants…
Fresh out of college with a psychology degree, Molly Stillman was searching for the meaning of life by taking a summer volunteer gig building houses. The meaning in Molly's life became apparent when her path crossed Lincoln Abbott’s. With his brand-new Yale MBA in hand, Linc was bound for Mississippi, ready to spend the summer building houses for Habitat for Humanity. He had a plan, lots of them, actually. But after meeting Molly, he realized plans have a way of showing you who’s boss.
One look from the intelligent beauty working by his side on the Habitat house, and Linc knew everything had changed. His longtime goal of studying at Oxford before joining his family’s finance business was abandoned in favor of helping to grow Molly’s charming family business in Vermont. Too bad Linc’s father had other ideas about how his future should unfold, and when forced to make a choice, Linc chose Molly. He chose Vermont and the Green Mountain Country Store, and he never looked back.
Until a phone call from the past forces him to confront the choices he made decades ago and the consequences of saying goodbye, including telling his ten grown children why they’ve never met his family—a subject that's always been off-limits until now. When Linc decides to go to Philadelphia to clear his conscience and see his father one last time, his wife and children insist on going along. “Let them see what came of this choice you made,” his eldest son, Hunter, says.
As they wander down memory lane, Linc and Molly revisit the unforgettable summer that changed both their lives and look back on forty years of happily ever after.
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Chapter 1
Carmen
It took only one day for my dream job to turn into a nightmare. Actually, that’s being generous. In reality, it took one fifteen-minute meeting with the hospital president to throw years of studying, planning and dreaming straight out the window into the blistering South Florida sunshine.
Nowhere in the elaborate job description I was given at my interview to be Miami-Dade General Hospital’s assistant director of public relations did the word babysitter appear. Let’s face it, if I’d known what they really wanted me to do, I wouldn’t be wilting in the scorching early-morning heat waiting for Dr. Jason Northrup to arrive for his first day.
“Anything he wants or needs, get it for him,” Mr. Augustino instructed. “Just keep him away from the executive offices.”
“But today’s my first day, too. Wouldn’t it be better to have someone who knows the facility meet and escort him?”
“I want you to do it,” he said, leaving no room for further argument.