Baby Blues and Wedding Bells by Patricia McLinn

Author:Patricia McLinn
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-11-13T05:00:00+00:00

Zach rammed the wheelbarrow over a rut. But when he reached the shed he forced himself to put the tools away carefully.

You were never the best at doing what you should have, were you?

Hell, no, he wasn’t. That’s why he’d gotten in the trouble he had; that’s why he’d gotten the reputation he had; that’s why he’d left Tobias.

So why the hell did it hurt to hear it?

Miss Trudi had gotten him out of the house—he wasn’t sure how. It was the least she could do, considering she’d dragged him in there and then pushed the button on the bomb with her Why ever not, Steve?

Zach had told her to mind her own damned business next time, and then he’d grabbed the wheelbarrow.

He turned, and there in the doorway of the shed, silhouetted by waning daylight, was a woman. Not Fran. He knew that instantly.

“Zach?”

“You, too, Annette?” he snarled. “You’re going to tell me to stay away, too?”

“No. Not me, too. I only have a minute, but… This isn’t only about you, or about you going away.”

He gave a scoffing grunt.

“It’s not just you,” she repeated. “After the gossip about our wedding falling apart and Lily and everything, Steve is protective of Nell with everyone. He worried that I might hurt her, and when I first met her he came rushing in as if I posed some grave danger or—”

“You? But he loves you—she loves you.”

“She didn’t know me then—” the look she gave him provided a split second of warning before she added the final word “—either.”

It still rocked him. His daughter didn’t know him.

“Remember, I’d been away a long time, too,” she continued. “I’d never met Nell until this spring. And Steve was right there, worrying that our past would affect how I dealt with Nell, that I might fail to recognize she’s become an individual these past eight years.”

Yeah, he got it. Annette was kind, but subtle she wasn’t. She was saying he also had to deal with Nell as she was now. No rewinding this story to when she was a baby. He had to deal with her as a girl who’d had a father for eight years, and it wasn’t him.

“I’ve got to go, but…Zach, you know you were surprised Steve was protective of Nell with me because Steve loves me? That’s my point. Because he loves you, too.”

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