Dragon Secrets (Dragon Breeze Book 1) by Rinelle Grey

Author:Rinelle Grey [Grey, Rinelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Brad stared at the sleeping baby.

His sleeping baby.

He still couldn’t quite believe it.

He’d never even considered being a parent. In fact, he’d always been pretty careful not to be. Except for that time with Lyrian.

He hadn’t exactly come out here thinking he was going to meet anyone. He’d been visiting his uncle for goodness sake. Things had been getting hot and heavy with Lyrian, and he’d asked if she had protection.

He was sure she’d said she’d take care of it.

He’d assumed that meant she had protection. He hadn’t considered her taking care of a baby.

Probably he should have stopped and made sure, but he hadn’t wanted to stop. God had he not wanted to stop.

And maybe it wouldn’t have made any difference if he had anyway. Maybe she had used protection. He knew, objectively, that sometimes things failed. He’d seen the statistics enough times.

He just hadn’t expected it to ever happen to him.

This was going to have a far-reaching impact on his life. Lyrian didn’t want to go to America, and he had a job there he couldn’t leave. This was going to be a mess. He knew that.

But the knowledge was dim and distant.

It wasn’t half as real as standing here in this room, the sunlight from the window illuminating the floating dust motes, a magpie warbling somewhere outside, and the sleeping baby shoving a tiny fist into her mouth and sucking on it noisily.

His heart overflowed with love in a way it never had before.

He knew, in that moment, that he’d do anything for the tiny human in front of him.

Even give up everything he’d thought was important.

Because none of that mattered anymore.

It was amazing really, he’d never seen this baby before. Never even dreamed she existed until a few moments ago. Yet, he loved her with his entire being.

The sucking grew louder. Anarian wriggled in the bed, and then her eyes flicked open, then closed, then opened again.

She stared at him, her sky blue eyes reminding him of her mothers.

Seemed Anarian took after her. He couldn’t see any hint of him in her face at all. Not that he had a problem with that. She was perfect just the way she was.

Her eyes widened a little, and then she let out a wail.

Food. She probably wanted food.

Brad turned around to head to the kitchen to heat up the bottle in hot water, as Lyrian had instructed him. Then he realised.

He shouldn’t leave the baby. She wasn’t in a crib, she was on a mattress on the floor. Who knew what could happen. He should take her with him.

He moved over next to the bed, and stared down at her, half afraid to touch her.

Sure, he’d held a baby before. He’d had to examine some during his residency. He’d even performed heart surgery on one.

But this was different.

This wasn’t someone else’s baby whose life he was saving.

This was his baby.

None of his friends or family had started families of their own yet. The closest any of them had come had been his twin brother helping to deliver a baby on a plane a few months back.

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