Babies and a Blue-eyed Man by Myrna Mackenzie

Author:Myrna Mackenzie [Mackenzie, Myrna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance
Publisher: Myrna Topol
Published: 2016-09-08T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

Standing in the twins’ bedroom, Rachel smiled in the darkness. A low, muffled chuckle came from Sam. Zach had just flipped over, hoisting his bottom in the air. Janey was snoring with Baby crushed in her arms.

It had taken both her and Sam to get everyone fed, bathed and in bed. For the sake of speed and the children’s much-needed rest, not to mention the fact that she had latched on to the idea like a pit bull, Sam had agreed to let her help him with the nighttime routine.

Now it was pitch-black as they both tiptoed outside, shutting the twins’ door behind them.

“They’re wonderful children, Sam,” she said quietly.”Absolutely adorable.”

“You mean I don’t feel that way just because I’m their father?” he asked, smiling in the low lamplight he’d clicked on.

“Guess not, because they’ve got me eating out of their hands,” she confessed.

“Not when they’re muddy, I hope,” Sam said, raising his brows.

“Even then,” she confessed. “Do they ever hear from their mother—at all? I mean, it’s none of my business, but—”

“Shh,” he said, touching her lips with one finger. “Of course it’s your business when you’re with them all the time. But no, she never writes, she never calls. I don’t really understand how—” He flattened one hand against the door frame and blew out a breath, voicing his frustration without words.

“Maybe—” Rachel stopped, then tried again. “Maybe she’d like to, but she just can’t begin to explain to them how she could have gone in the first place. Maybe she doesn’t understand it, either.”

“You’re excusing her?”

Rachel shook her head. “No, not at all. Walking out the door without a word, leaving her children alone without any answers to their questions—there can’t be any excuse for that. I guess it’s just natural to want to make some sense out of the situation. I never really knew much about Donna. She was two years older than me, and we didn’t travel in the same crowd. All I remember is that she was pretty, the prom queen. Maybe she was just too young to be married. Maybe she didn’t really know what she wanted.”

Sam hooked his thumbs in his front pockets. He blew out a deep breath, then looked up, out into the darkness beyond the window. “I don’t know—hell, I don’t know anything, and obviously knew even less back then.”

When he turned to her, Rachel froze. The memory of a day ten years ago when she’d walked off the dance floor with no explanation, leaving Sam alone in the midst of a crowd, slipped into her mind. And, looking up into Sam’s suddenly dark eyes, she wondered if he was thinking the same thing. Of course, he wouldn’t be.

He took a step forward.

Rachel opened her mouth as though to speak, then closed it again as Sam stepped closer still.

She looked for words but they disappeared in Sam’s dark blue eyes. And after all, it was only her own guilty imagination suggesting that he even wanted an explanation, that he even cared why she had deserted him that day.

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