A Family for Faith (Larger Print Love Inspired)

He finally stopped and banged on the bathroom door. "Hurry up, Chels. You'll be late."

His dear, sweet daughter growled at him.Growled.

With a badge on his chest and weapon at his hip, heshouldbe prepared to deal with anything. But give him a drunk or a thief any day over this soon-to-be-teenage-girl business.

He pounded the door again. "I've gotta get back to the station. What are you doing in there?"

"For the thousandth time, I'm coming."

He knew without a doubt that she was in there rolling her eyes at him. "What's taking so long?"

"A work of art takes time," she said in her best theatrical voice. Then she giggled, more like her normal, little girl self.

This switching from girl to young woman then back to girl

in the blink of an eye was making his head spin. "You better not be putting on makeup."

"I'm a teenager. All my friends wear makeup."

"You're not thirteen yet. And if all your friends jumped off€""

She yanked the door open so fast it banged into the wall. She glared at him. "No. If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldnotjump, too. This is totally different and you know it."

Her cheeks glowed with a too-bright pink that matched her tinted lips. Her mascaraed eyelashes, clumped into several uneven spikes, seemed a mile longer than usual. She looked grown-up. Too grown-up€"the kind that would attract the atte