Declan by Chris Keniston

Author:Chris Keniston [Keniston, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indie House Publishing
Published: 2016-11-25T16:00:00+00:00

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DJ loved his family. Really he did. But tonight he couldn’t get away from the crowd and the questions fast enough. Any other time, when his support wasn't promised to a spunky woman and an abandoned baby, he'd have hunkered down behind his desk and tackled the mountain of paperwork and red tape that followed an officer firing a weapon. Instead, with an infant carrier in hand, he climbed the steps to what used to be his brother's apartment.

"I should give you a key." Becky slid past him to reach the front door.

The thought caught DJ by surprise. He was a guest. A key would be something more permanent. Glancing down at the baby, his thoughts sprinted in various directions. How long till the DNA results came back? What would happen when they did? What would he do if this little girl was his niece? If she wasn't?

Becky shoved the door open and stepped aside. "Home sweet home."

Again, her words surprised him. Home? He hadn't really had one of those since he'd left the ranch. Yeah, he had a place to park his butt and watch TV or crawl under the covers if he wasn't sacking out at the station, but home?

Placing her keys on a nearby hook, Becky spun about. "I suppose we could just leave her in the carrier till she wakes up hungry."

"You suppose?" DJ had followed Becky's lead so far. She'd seemed totally confident in her handling of the baby. Like she'd already raised a passel of her own.

Becky shrugged. "Hey, babysitting only gets you so far."

Since no one had ever asked him to babysit in his entire life, she was leaps and bounds ahead of him in the what-to-do-now department. "Where do I put her?"

"I suppose," she grinned before glancing away, "the bedroom should be fine."

"Bedroom it is." He'd set the carrier down on the floor beside the portable crib and smiled. Farraday or not, as far as babies went, this one was pretty sweet. He'd barely crossed the threshold when his gaze fell on Becky's derriere as she straightened by the fridge, a longneck brew in her hand.

"Thirsty?"

It took the saliva a few seconds to return to his mouth so he could form words. "That would be great. Thanks." Settled on the sofa, he dropped his ankle over his knee and drank back a long swallow. Not cool enough. "Aren't you having one?"

At the other end of the couch, reaching for the remote, she shook her head. "Never developed a taste for beer."

Did she keep the fridge stocked for someone else? Had she gotten back together with Ben? No, DJ had seen him and the schoolteacher having dinner at the café just the other night. "Why do you keep beer in the fridge if you don't like it?"

"Cause you do."

His booted foot fell to the floor with a thud. "What?"

"After a long day at the ranch, all y'all like to have a beer. Sometimes after dinner too."

DJ blinked. She was right. Whenever he worked

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