A CALLAHAN CHRISTMAS MIRACLE by TINA LEONARD

Author:TINA LEONARD [LEONARD, TINA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

When little Mack Galen came home the next day from the hospital, the Christmas spirit finally hit Rose. “My boy is home!” she exclaimed. “It’s almost a merry Christmas!” She smiled at Galen and reached to take her son in her arms. “Although it breaks my heart that your baby brother is still at the hospital. I’ll go see him tomorrow.” She looked up at Galen. “How is Riley?”

“Our mighty little mouse,” he said. “Not much bigger than a mouse, squeaks like a mouse and sometimes makes faces like a mouse.”

“Galen!” Rose gave her husband a reproving look, even though part of her wanted to laugh. She knew he was teasing—and yet it felt mean to tease about little Riley when he couldn’t be home with the family.

“I’m sorry. I think of Mighty Mouse when I think of that sprig off the family tree. You know he’s going to grow up to be a cattle puncher or a monster rodeo cowboy.”

“I hope so.” She gazed down at Mack, her father’s namesake. “My sons are growing like tigers.”

“Not tigers,” Galen said. “They’re growing like Callahans.”

He handed her a bouquet of flowers—a beautiful knot of lilies and roses—surprising her. “What’s this for?”

“Because you’re my wife.” He flung himself down next to her and grinned at the two babies she held. “A beautiful, patient wife.”

“I’m not patient. Whoever told you that?”

“Fiona.” His brow lifted. “Don’t believe me?”

“There’s no telling what your aunt might say about anything, but I doubt she ever claimed I was patient.”

“She did say you had the soul of a saint to put up with me.”

Fiona’s earlier words lingered in Rose’s mind. She’d tried hard not to think about them in the last week, but they were hard to forget. “Galen, remember when you said we didn’t have to stay together? That you didn’t want our relationship to be like your brothers’, where they had to catch their wives after they’d gotten them pregnant?”

“Yeah. You see that my way worked much better. You’re here with me, there’s no drama and the kids are happy. We’ll be a big happy family by Christmas.”

“You do recall you mentioned something about us not needing to stay together if—”

He kissed the words right off her lips. “I know what I said to convince you it was safe to marry me, doll. But it was all a pretty trap, I’m afraid, and you fell for the shiny object. You’re stuck with me.” He took Mack from her and lay back with the baby on his chest. “Yes, stuck like peanut butter to the roof of a horse’s mouth.”

“Galen!” She laughed, relieved, happy to have her worries brushed away. But underneath the happiness, Rose knew she had decisions to make, for her sons’ sakes.

* * *

“HERE’S THE DEAL,” Galen told Running Bear when they met in the canyons that night. “Everything went wrong. And when it went wrong, it went really wrong. I can tell my little wife is having serious second thoughts. There’s got to be a way to fix all this, before it blows up in my face.

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