Baby Be Mine by Eve Gaddy

Author:Eve Gaddy [Gaddy, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2008-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

TUCKER THOUGHT Maggie was going to lose it waiting for CPS to make up their minds over the next couple of weeks. She was grouchy, touchy and despondent. Everything that was hard to live with. Even so, he was having a devil of a time keeping his hands to himself. He wasn’t sure what that said about him, that he could find a woman so attractive in such trying circumstances.

Proximity. Maybe that’s all it was. He wasn’t falling for her. Not really. He was living with her, for Pete’s sake. Seeing her in various states of undress. Looking but never touching. It was enough to drive a man crazy.

One day Tucker got a phone call just as he was about to leave the office.

“It’s your wife,” his secretary told him, handing him the phone.

He took the cordless phone and walked back to his office. “Hey, Maggie. What’s up?”

He hoped it was good news. The wait was wearing on them both. He’d thought his mother and father had taken the news in stride when they first told them. At least, they hadn’t said much that evening. But since then, every time he talked to his mother, she asked why Tucker and Maggie weren’t starting a family of their own if they wanted children. And though he hadn’t told Maggie, Tucker had the feeling that his father, at the least, suspected the truth.

“Tucker, it’s—wait a minute.”

He heard her say something to someone else and a short while later she came back on the line.

“I can’t believe it.”

“Where are you? You sound like you’re at the bottom of a well.”

“I’m in the bathroom at the station. I was afraid I’d cry and the guys would never let me hear the end of it if they saw me leaking tears.”

“What’s wrong? Have they found Grace’s mother?” Tucker was growing more and more worried about Maggie’s reaction if and when they found the woman. Since marrying Maggie, he’d done a little research. Enough to know that in child custody cases, especially those involving foster care, judges usually came down in the birth mother’s favor, especially if there was no history of abuse.

He’d brought up the possibility of the mother being found or showing up and wanting Grace back a couple of times, but Maggie wouldn’t talk much about it. She simply said she’d deal with the matter when it happened. It was how she planned to deal with it that worried Tucker.

“No, we haven’t found her yet. Nothing’s wrong.” She paused, then burst out with, “Nina called. We get to have Grace.”

“Maggie, that’s great.” He needed to bury his reservations and his worries. This was what Maggie had wanted all along. He had to be happy for her.

“I know. I can’t believe it’s finally happening. Can you meet me at the house? We can pick her up anytime, they said. I think it would be best if you went, too, don’t you? They’ll be expecting both of us, I imagine.”

“I wouldn’t miss it. See you soon.

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