Carla Kelly's Christmas Collection by Carla Kelly

Author:Carla Kelly [Kelly, Carla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Historical
ISBN: 9781462112272
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Amazon: 1462112277
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Goodreads: 12953006
Publisher: Cedar Fort, Inc.
Published: 2011-10-04T16:00:00+00:00

He set records getting to Wythe, his mind a perfect turmoil. She had been so quiet all day, and then she kept gripping his hand at intervals on the ride to St. Anselm’s. I remain an idiot, he told himself in exasperation. She was in labor and I didn’t even know it. What a dolt Rosie has yoked herself to! Obviously she hasn’t a clue in the world how to choose a husband. I had better be her last one, or no telling what trouble she will get into.

Emma and Will were both asleep on the sofa in the upstairs hall, and he passed them quietly. The doctor stood on the landing, as well as two of the Welsh women.

“Didn’t you say January?” he asked the doctor. “I distinctly remember January.”

The women laughed. “They come when they’re ready. She has a daughter,” one of them said as he opened the door.

He went inside on tiptoe, taking off his smoky overcoat and washing his hands and face before coming to the bed where Rosie lay with her little one. He sat beside them, staring at the pretty morsel cradled so carefully in her arms. She was as beautiful as her mother, with the same dark hair.

“Rosie, she’s a wonder,” he whispered.

Her eyes were closed, but he knew she was awake.

Too tired to open her eyes, he thought. And I was putting out a stupid fire. “I wish I could have been here, Rosie,” he said simply. “It won’t happen again like this. You had to know the baby was coming. Why didn’t you tell me?”

She opened her eyes and his heart melted with the expression in them. You’re going to love me, even if I am stupid and stodgy and unimaginative, aren’t you? he thought.

With an effort, she moved her hand from the baby to cover his hand. “I don’t think you really cared if we won or not, did you?”

He shook his head and kissed her. “You know it never really mattered. Did it matter to you?”

She nodded. “Singing matters. I had to be there.”

He got up, took off his shoes, and lay down on her other side. “I think you cut it a little close, love.”

She nodded again. She turned her head to look at her baby. “I have something I should have asked you sooner.”

He put a finger to her lips and raised up on his elbow so he could watch her expression. “Let me spill my budget first. If I am not mistaken, it will answer your question.” He cleared his throat, wondering just how far back to go. Begin at the beginning, he told himself. “After Will was born, Lucy didn’t want anything more to do with me.”

“She was an idiot,” Rosie murmured, her eyes closed again.

“Well, yes, but that’s neither here nor there. I was in Ireland with the regiment, and we were headed to India. I was summoned home.”

“Summoned?”

“Yes, and it did surprise me, because I was pretty sure from things I had heard that Lucy was grazing in other pastures.

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