A Family to Be (Saddle Falls) by De Vita Sharon

Author:De Vita, Sharon [De Vita, Sharon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2011-06-19T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“Em, here’s one. Wilhelmina.” Josh glanced over at her in the moonlight. The air had actually cooled enough for them to enjoy sitting outside.

“Wilhelmina?” Arching a brow, Em took a lick of her ice cream cone and looked at Josh skeptically. “You’re kidding, right?” She studied his face. “Aren’t you?” she asked weakly, making him grin.

“No, I’m not,” he admitted. “What’s wrong with Wilhelmina?” he asked, glancing up at her in the darkness. He was holding the book of baby names with one hand and finishing off the last of his cone with the other.

“I think,” she said with a frown, concentrating on her ice cream, “that if we name the baby Wilhelmina, she’ll have to go straight from the womb to the Supreme Court.”

Josh laughed, shaking his head. “Guess that means you don’t like it, then, huh?”

“Good guess.” She took another lick of her cone, then pushed the swing with her foot, setting it swaying.

“How on earth do you know it’s a girl? You told Doc Haggerty you didn’t want to know the sex and we sure couldn’t tell from the ultrasound.” His brows drew together. “At least I couldn’t.”

She grinned, patting her belly which seemed to be growing by inches every moment. “That’s because I already know it, Josh. It’s definitely a girl.”

He sighed. They’d been having this same argument for weeks. He couldn’t understand how she could be so sure, so positive. It confounded him. But then again, so many things about pregnant women—and women in general, did.

“Okay, then let’s look at some more baby girls’ names.” He flipped a few pages, then tilted his head to see better under the porch light. “Here’s one. How about Petingula?”

She laughed. “Josh, it’s a baby, not a puppet.”

“Guess you don’t like that, either,” he said, flipping to another page, and eyeing her, a teasing glint in his eyes. “Okay, this one’s nice. How about Leticia?” He reached out and wiped a drip of ice cream off her bare thigh with his napkin. “That’s different.”

“I think we’ll stick with something a bit more traditional,” she said. She grabbed the baby book from his hand, tucking it under her thigh so he couldn’t reach it.

“Traditional?” He grinned. He loved to tease her, to see her smile, to laugh, knowing she was relaxed and happy. It was such a change from the sad, somber Em who had come into his office on that morning a few months ago. “I’d say what you’re going for is…boring.”

“Boring?” she repeated, bopping him gently on the head with the little book before popping the last of her ice cream cone into her mouth. “If you had your way, the baby would have a moniker that would be the menace of her life.” She rubbed her forehead. “You’re going to give me a headache with all these unusual names.” Grinning, she tucked the little book back under her thigh and out of his reach. “Josh,” she said carefully, gathering her thoughts. She’d been trying to get up enough courage to bring this up for almost a week.

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