Back to You by Brenda Novak

Author:Brenda Novak
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-02-15T16:00:00+00:00

Jenna sat on the bed, lips pinched as she read and reread her ex-husband’s letter. This was the sober Dennis, the man she’d believed she could build a life with. When she’d married him, she’d known she didn’t feel the overwhelming depth of emotion she’d felt for Adam, but she’d thought they had a decent amount of love and respect between them. Their marriage shouldn’t have become the hell it had. Ryan shouldn’t have lost his father.

And now Dennis was doing another about-face, managing to surprise even her. He’d been so bitter and angry for the past few months, so far from healthy, that Jenna had feared he’d never find his way back to a normal life. Evidently getting picked up by the police had been good for him.

“There you are!” Ryan came bounding into the room with speckles of dried mud on his arms and legs, even his face. “We had a blast!”

Jenna folded the letter and stuffed it back inside the envelope. Maybe now she and Ryan could have some peace and eventually build a healthy relationship between father and son.

And what about the baby?

“It looks like you fell into a puddle,” she said.

“Nope. I rode through a creek. I wiped out a couple times, but I didn’t get hurt. You should’ve seen Adam, though. He tried to go down this pile of rocks and flew right over the top of his handlebars. It was awesome.”

“That’s what I get for showing off.” Adam stood in the doorway, grinning from a similarly mud-splattered face. A scrape on his leg testified to the spill he’d taken, along with a matching scrape on his arm and a cut on his elbow. He lifted his torn T-shirt to show her a bruise on his ribs.

“And this is supposed to encourage me to let you go again?” Jenna asked Ryan.

Ryan rolled his eyes. “Come on, Mom. He wouldn’t let me try any of the hard stuff, and he’s okay. Just look at him!”

Jenna didn’t need any encouragement to do that. The lycra biking shorts Adam wore revealed the sinewy muscles of his legs—and left very little to the imagination in other, more intriguing places.

“Next weekend you’re coming with us,” Adam told her.

Jenna would have tried the excuse that she didn’t have a bike, but she was afraid Adam would simply buy her one. “Pregnant women probably aren’t allowed.”

“I have a friend whose wife biked until six months or so. I don’t plan to take you out when you’re that far along, but a few trips early in the pregnancy should be okay.”

The proprietary tone of his voice said that her words last night hadn’t discouraged him. He wasn’t backing off. She lifted an eyebrow in challenge, but he only winked at her and headed down the hall.

“I’m going to shower,” he called back. “Ryan, you’d better wash up, too, before Gram catches sight of you.”

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