A Camden's Baby Secret by Victoria Pade

Author:Victoria Pade
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-08-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“Oh. Hey. Morning,” Callan said when he came out of his at-home office on Sunday for his second cup of coffee. He was surprised to find John Sr. sitting on one of the bar stools at the island counter in the kitchen.

“You up before me again?” the older man grumbled, as if it was a competition he resented losing.

“Work to do,” Callan answered tersely, leaving out the part where he was having trouble sleeping because Livi was occupying his mind.

After that kiss on her porch last night he’d been even more stirred up and wide-awake and restless than every other night since they’d reconnected in Northbridge. Finally, he’d just given up the fight and decided to get something accomplished rather than go on trying to sleep, wrestling with thoughts he knew he shouldn’t be having.

“Guess you didn’t get all you got layin’ ’round in bed,” the older man concluded.

There was a scenario in which Callan would have liked to be lying around in bed. But it included Livi. Without Livi and alone there, thinking about her, wanting to repeat Hawaii so bad it was nearly driving him crazy, he found his bed was like a torture chamber these days.

But while that was something he would have said to J.J., it certainly wasn’t something he would say to John Sr. So instead he asked, “How come you’re up so early without cows to milk and animals to feed?”

“Habit. Don’t even need an alarm clock anymore.”

Callan nodded toward the mug on the counter in front of John Sr. “Got your coffee okay?”

“Yep.”

“I just came out for my second.”

The elderly man made no comment and Callan went around the island to the coffeemaker while silence hung in the air.

Instantly, Livi was on his mind again.

But this time he wasn’t thinking about how shiny her hair was or how blue her eyes were. About how much he liked the sound of her voice, her laugh, how soft her skin was or how much he wanted to get his hands on her. He wasn’t thinking that he had no business thinking any of that, given that he was fresh out of a marriage he’d tanked, and had his hands full with the Tellers and Greta. He wasn’t even thinking that Livi was a Camden and he should be trying for distance from her rather than the opposite.

This time he was thinking about the things she’d said to him on Friday night. And he knew that if she saw what was going on between him and John Sr. at that moment, she’d blame Callan for dropping the ball, missing a chance to break some ice.

And he knew she would be right.

So once his coffee was ready, rather than taking it back to his office, he turned to drink it standing at the island facing John Sr.

Who scowled and stared at him through narrowed eyes as if he was up to something.

Callan ignored the suspicious glare. But seeing it and knowing the man, he also paused a moment to consider what he was going to say before he said it.

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