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- Herausgeber: Lorhainne Eckhart, INC.
- Kategorie: Gesellschafts- und Liebesromane
- Serie: The Friessens
- Sprache: Englisch
Discover why fans have fallen in love with The Friessens. Grab this Friessen Family short story that follows the events of I'll Always Love You.
With their wedding less than a week away, Jeremy and Tiffy discover they’re not on the same page when it comes to raising their son and dealing with the challenges that come their way. In true Friessen fashion, when Jeremy tries to establish ground rules, he soon learns that Tiffy isn’t the kind of woman anyone can tell what to do, and his strong personality could have her calling off the wedding and walking the other way.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019
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GROUND RULES
A Friessen Family Short Story
The Friessens
Book 20
LORHAINNE ECKHART
Contents
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The Friessen Family Series Reading order:
The Friessen Family Tree
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
What’s coming next in The Friessens?
A Reason to Breathe
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The Friessen Family Series Reading order:
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The Outsider Series
The Forgotten Child (Brad and Emily)
A Baby and a Wedding
Fallen Hero (Andy, Jed, and Diana) with bonus The Search
The Awakening (Andy and Laura)
Secrets (Jed and Diana)
Runaway (Andy and Laura)
Overdue
The Unexpected Storm (Neil and Candy)
The Wedding (Neil and Candy)
The Friessens: A New Beginning
The Deadline (Andy and Laura)
The Price to Love (Neil and Candy)
A Different Kind of Love (Brad and Emily)
A Vow of Love, A Friessen Family Christmas
The Friessens
The Reunion
The Bloodline (Andy & Laura)
The Promise (Diana & Jed)
The Business Plan (Neil & Candy)
The Decision (Brad & Emily)
First Love (Katy)
Family First
Leave the Light On
In the Moment
In the Family: A Friessen Family Christmas
In the Silence
In the Stars
In the Charm
Unexpected Consequences
It Was Always You
The First Time I Saw You
Welcome to My Arms
Welcome to Boston
I’ll Always Love You
Ground Rules
A Reason to Breathe
You Are My Everything
Anything For You
The Homecoming includes FREE short story When They Were Young
Stay Away From My Daughter
The Bad Boy
A Place to Call Our Own
The Visitor
All About Devon
Long Past Dawn
How to Heal a Heart
Keep Me In Your Heart
Want to know how all the series are linked? Stop by my blog for all the details: http://www.lorhainneeckhart.com/what-is-the-reading-order-of-your-books/
Now Available at a specially reduced price, The Friessen Legacy Collections:
1) The Outsider Series: The Complete Omnibus Collection
2) The Friessens A New Beginning: The Collection
3) The Friessens Books 1 - 5 Box Set
4) The Friessens Books 6 -8
5) The Friessen Books 9 - 11
6) The Friessen Books 12 - 14
7) The Friessen Books 15 - 18
8) The Friessen Books 19 -21
9. The Friessen Books 22 - 24
10) The Friessens Books 25 - 27
11) The Friessens Books 28 - 31
The Friessen Family Tree
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Ground Rules
With their wedding less than a week away, Jeremy and Tiffy discover they’re not on the same page when it comes to raising their son and dealing with the challenges that come their way. In true Friessen fashion, when Jeremy tries to establish ground rules, he soon learns that Tiffy isn’t the kind of woman anyone can tell what to do, and his strong personality could have her calling off the wedding and walking the other way.
ChapterOne
“This is like an overcrowded boarding house. Instead of downsizing with kids moving out, we seem to be going the wrong way,” Andy Friessen said to his wife, Laura, who was setting out a mixed bowl of fruit on the kitchen counter. It was exactly 7:45 a.m., when everyone arrived at once for breakfast.
There was bread on the counter, and Jeremy had dibs on the toaster. Brandon was jumping up and down beside him, wearing a pull-up, his nose running. He yanked on Jeremy’s T-shirt, hanging off him, wanting sugary Nutella on his toast. Jeremy had let him try it the week before, and now every day was a fight to get him to eat anything else for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or even snacks.
“No, Brandon, you can have some cereal instead,” Tiffy said as she stepped into the kitchen, freshly showered, her dark hair wet and combed back. She was dressed in blue jeans and a yellow cotton shirt, whereas Jeremy was looking rough, his hair a mess, and he seemed to have pulled on yesterday’s clothes. He said nothing, simply tossed Tiffy a sharp glance over his shoulder as he rested his hands on the counter.
Andy wasn’t sure what he was seeing in that exchange between them: tiredness, tension, trouble.
Tiffy grabbed some bowls from the cupboard and filled them with cornflakes from the pantry, then pulled the milk from the fridge.
“No, I want Nutella!” Brandon howled.
Andy took a swallow of coffee and wondered how much sleep Brandon had gotten, as he seemed on the verge of a meltdown from the way he was whining. How much longer would it be until Jeremy gave in no matter what Tiffy said? Jeremy was still facing the toaster and said nothing.
“Dad, remember I have to stay late after school. You said you’d pick me up?” Sarah hurried into the kitchen, her blond hair styled and pinned up, and he noticed she was wearing more makeup than usual. Her blue and white blouse was unbuttoned to reveal a tank underneath, showing more cleavage than he thought was necessary for his sixteen-year-old daughter.
“And why can’t you take the bus like your brother and everyone else?” Andy said.
“Remember it’s the last day before Christmas, and I’m part of the club that’s making sure all the Christmas boxes are ready. The volunteers will be picking them up before dinner.”
“So is that why you’re dressed the way you’re dressed, for Christmas boxes?” Andy lifted his cup to take another swallow, not pulling his gaze from Sarah. She was too attractive for her own good. Maybe that was why he was fighting the urge to lock her up until she was thirty.
“It’s about Reese,” Laura said to him in a low voice, sliding her hand over his lower back as she stepped around him, wearing a pink sweater and blue jeans.
Zach hurried in, reaching around Sarah and shoving his hand into the bread to pull out two slices. He moved behind Jeremy, who was now trying to butter the bread despite Brandon holding his leg and swinging back and forth. There was honey, peanut butter, and…yup, the Nutella was now out on the counter. Which one would he pick?
“Reese? Who is Reese?” Andy said, taking in Sarah as she peeled an orange. Then he darted a gaze over to his wife, who was pouring her own coffee. A teasing smile touched the edges of her lips. He wasn’t ready for another of his daughters to start dating. He was still trying to come to terms with the fact that Chelsea was now with a man he never would’ve chosen for her in a million years. He thought back to the loser boyfriend Chelsea had dated at sixteen, Boone Hudson, whom he still wanted to see six feet under.
“Seriously, Jeremy, the bus is coming! Move out of the way,” Zach said as he reached around and shoved his bread in the toaster.
Jeremy sighed and tossed a dark look his brother’s way as he opened the jar of Nutella, and Andy found himself shaking his head. The words Don’t do it were on the tip of his tongue.
“He’s no one, Dad,” Sarah said. “Okay, I’ve got to go.” She shoved a piece of orange in her mouth and started out of the kitchen.
Tiffy reached for Brandon and lifted him, which didn’t go over well, as he let out a howl and kicked his legs, going right to a DEFCON 1 meltdown. Andy wanted to plug his ears as he winced.
“Jeremy, stop giving in to him,” Tiffy snapped. “He’s sick. He’s not having any more of that crap. This is ridiculous! He won’t eat anything else now because of that. This isn’t helping.”
Zach somehow had managed to slip in and grab his toast from the toaster and was hurrying out and around the corner, running out the door for the bus. Andy was able to spot him through the window, backpack looped over his shoulder, his coat under his arm, eating two pieces of toast as he ran past his sister to the end of the driveway at the road, where the bus picked them up.
“Brandon, I told you already your choice is cereal, nothing else,” Tiffy added as Brandon tried to push out of her arms.
Brandon let out another howl as Tiffy held him, kicking and flailing. Andy saw it coming a second too late, as Brandon reached around Tiffy and smacked the bowls on the island, sending them flying and shattering on the floor.
“Tiffy, don’t move!” Laura said sharply. “You’re barefoot. One step and you’ll cut yourself. Let me grab the broom.” She flicked her gaze to Andy, and he knew she wanted him to do something.
Jeremy was still holding out the toast to Brandon, smeared with enough Nutella that it would put anyone into a sugar coma. A warning was on the tip of Andy’s tongue again: Seriously, don’t do it.
