A Wedding At Two Love Lane by Kieran Kramer

Author:Kieran Kramer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN

The evening started out totally wrong, and Ford knew it was all his fault. What was he doing pressing all the floor buttons and making out with Greer in the elevator? He needed to have a productive evening of painting, not one in which he spent all his time either imagining making love to her or initiating foreplay.

But she was so delicious.

And so right for you, a forbidden, ridiculous voice in his head said.

He managed to pull himself together when they got to the studio and he saw a missed call on his phone from Anne. He knew what that was about. She was checking up on him. She’d ask questions: How far along was he with the sketches for the portrait? Would he make it in time for the showing? He’d need to figure in the stretch it took to ship the canvas over the ocean, too, and get it to the site as well.

And then worse, he saw a text from Teddy: Feeling good, considering I’m eating for three.

* * *

Dear God, it was nearly impossible to imagine Teddy pregnant. She had a big heart beneath her tough exterior, but she simply wasn’t interested in revealing it very often, even to him. She found it a show of weakness. Even so, he’d been her biggest fan. Along with her stubborn reticence came a fierce independence he’d found refreshing. And when she did show her softer side, she’d been irresistible—at least to the old Ford.

New Ford—post-wedding disaster—recognized that he’d fallen for her out of sheer ego on his part. She was gorgeous, chased after by many men, and he was the privileged one she’d decided to open up to. They made a beautiful couple. The English tabloids thought so, as well as their friends.

But never again would he get involved with someone because he felt flattered by all the attention. The stupidity of it, the shallowness.…

He was embarrassed to have been reeled in so easily. But the hard lesson he’d learned had brought him to a new place. He was more humble now. Looking back, he saw that in a way he’d been as careless with women’s hearts as Teddy had been with his. He’d never wanted to love anyone. Not really. He’d only wanted to play when he wasn’t busy painting, with people who mattered little to him.

No more. When he wasn’t painting these days, he wanted to think. To count off his blessings each day. To be with people who loved him for who he was—a painter on a lifelong journey—and whom he loved back.

Now that Teddy was pregnant, he had to wonder if she’d need to open up more. The babies would require demonstrations of love, wouldn’t they? Could she manage to be emotionally available to them?

“What is it?” Greer asked, her arms around his waist from behind.

He shook his head. “Teddy. She’s texting me about her appetite.”

“Oh,” said Greer, and dropped her arms.

He sighed. “She’s eating for three, but she feels pretty good.”

“I’m glad. It would be much worse on you if she were having complications.

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