The Strawberry Patch Pancake House (Dream Harbor 4)

Of course she was struggling. ‘That little girl lost her mother and the man in there is doing the best he can⁠—’ Another crash cut off Gladys’s words but her intention to tug at Iris’s overdeveloped heart-strings worked anyway. Kira had been over the moon happy since he’d moved in, but Iris was not about to be a third wheel in their relationship. Iris could kiss Archer by night and care for Olive by day, no problem. By morning she would see, she would see that this was just a bad day, that it wasn’t her fault, that everything worked out fine in the end.