A Match Made by Baby by Karen Rose Smith

Author:Karen Rose Smith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

While unpacking clothes on Sunday afternoon, deciding what rack they would go on, labeling and pricing them, Kaitlyn spotted Adam walk through the door from her vantage point in Thrifty Solutions’ storeroom. He was carrying his niece in her sling.

As if by magnetic pull, Adam’s gaze sought hers across the salesroom. Crossing to the storeroom, he smiled. She got caught up in that smile.

“Have you been here long?” he asked, patting Erica’s back, but keeping his focus on Kaitlyn.

“About an hour.” She shouldn’t feel breathless. She shouldn’t feel as if she wanted to lean forward to kiss him. The intense desire in his eyes told her he might be thinking about kissing her, too.

“Our getting-ready-to-leave routine took longer than I expected.” He dropped Erica’s diaper bag and clasped Kaitlyn’s arm as if he wanted some physical contact. The touch of his fingers on her skin reminded her of everything they’d done together. He leaned close to her and, in a low voice, said, “I want to ask you something. But right now, I’m going to turn Erica over to Sara and help unload that truck.”

After a squeeze of her arm, he picked up Erica’s bag and went to Sara, handing over Erica and the bag.

Kaitlyn felt as if she wanted to be the one watching Erica. But that was silly. Erica wasn’t hers. Adam wasn’t hers. Still, she felt proprietary of both of them. Just what did he want to ask her?

In the baby section of Thrifty Solutions, there was a swing much like the one Adam used at his condo. Sara settled Erica in that.

Adam spoke to Erica for a couple of minutes. Not just nonsense, either, but gentle words about being right there and that he’d be back soon and Sara was going to play with her. All things a dad would say. Did he even realize that?

Kaitlyn was sorting blouses according to their sizes and dressiness when Adam went to the garage-type door where a truck had backed in to unload. When he returned inside, he had three boxes stacked on top of each other on a dolly.

He unloaded them onto the floor and looked around the racks that Kaitlyn had been setting up. “Where does all this come from?” he asked.

“That’s hard to say. The Mommy Club started with one original benefactress. No one knows who she is. She set up the foundation to draw on for anything families might need. Then that foundation endowed this thrift store and bought storage units where volunteers can stow furniture that families might be able to use. There are many benefactors now. Anyone who’s helped by The Mommy Club usually gives back. It’s a circle that never stops.”

“Sort of like a wedding ring,” Adam mused.

Kaitlyn jerked her head up, surprised to hear that come from him. With his kiss too much on her mind, with making love with him always on her mind, she wondered how much he thought about marriage. She knew he didn’t think much of it.

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