BLAME IT ON BABIES by Kristine Rolofson

Author:Kristine Rolofson [Rolofson, Kristine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2012-11-08T09:50:30+00:00

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Chapter 7

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"Go to bed, Lorna," he said, following her into her house. "Now."

"Do I look like I'm going to argue with you?" Actually Lorna didn't look like she was going to argue with him at all. Jess just liked telling her to get into bed.

Not that he was thinking about sex. He needed to redeem himself after the disgraceful fainting incident in the doctor's office. If it ever got out that he'd let a little thing like an ultrasound make him weak in the knees, he'd be laughed out of the county.

"Not really. I just like bossing you around."

"You can stop anytime." She even yawned, to prove her point or maybe because she was sleepy, Jess didn't know. "Don't you have to go be a sheriff?"

"Not until ten o'clock, or unless Carter needs me." He followed her into the bedroom. It looked different, though the bed was in the same place, to the right of the door and across from a set of windows. The white walls looked freshly painted, there was a bright braided rug on the wood floor, and the bed was covered with a multicolored quilt. At least six pillows were piled against the curving metal headboard, giving the bed an inviting look. Jess wouldn't have minded sinking down into it either. The door at the opposite end, he knew, led to the hall and the bathroom.

"You don't have to stay," Lorna said. She sat on the edge of the bed and managed to untie her shoelaces before Jess realized that her pregnancy made the chore awkward. "I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself."

"Yeah," he said. "But you don't have to. The nurse told me to take you home and make sure you got some rest so that's what I'm going to do."

"How did you get in the examining room, anyway?" She eased herself off the bed and headed toward the bathroom.

"I told the receptionist I was your fiancé," he said, as she shut the door and left him alone in the room. It was immaculately clean, with photos on the surface of the oak dresser and a gilded mirror hanging above it.

She muttered something he couldn't understand, and then a few moments later came out of the bathroom dressed in a flowered cotton nightgown that showed absolutely nothing of her body but turned him on more than he'd ever been in his life. He didn't know why, except that this woman affected him that way. "Goodbye, Jess." Lorna went directly to the bed and pulled the quilt back to expose pale yellow sheets and climbed into the bed. She leaned back against the pillows and sighed with contentment.

"I can fix you something to eat." She did look pale and he hadn't noticed those dark smudges under her eyes until now when the sunlight came through the windows and highlighted her face.

"I'm not hungry." She scooted down under the covers and, almost as an afterthought, smiled at him. "Go away, Jess."

"Okay," he agreed. "I'll leave my number so you can page me whenever you need me.

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