CHAPTER 2
The general story of Declan’s life was one of bad timing. He’d been born too soon to a girl who hadn’t been ready for motherhood. He’d missed the line drive in the critical championship game that might have landed him a full-ride baseball scholarship to college. He’d met the woman of his dreams mere weeks before the woman of his nightmares permanently altered his life. He’d been five minutes too late to meet country legend Garth Brooks at a hardware store in Nashville several years back. And he woke up with a vague hangover ten minutes too soon the morning after Kendrick and Erin’s wedding.
Not that he’d known that as he’d shuffled down the stairs of his sisters’ inn on a quest for coffee.
Not until the explosion hit him full in the face.
For long seconds, he stood on the lan
