Father Found by Muriel Jensen

Author:Muriel Jensen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Sadie was a miracle. Gusty was even beginning to believe that her past didn’t matter, if her future would be filled with this beautiful baby and Bram.

Now ten days old, Sadie often stared at Gusty while nursing, little fingers opening and closing, legs kicking, toes curling. Gusty thought it very discerning of her baby to find her mother fascinating.

But Sadie seemed even more taken with her father. He talked to her as though she were ten and walking beside him instead of going everywhere in the crook of his arm.

“This is the Quicken program,” he told her the day before as they sat together at the kitchen table, his laptop open to his business files. “It’s a great thing for those of us who aren’t very good at math. Of course, you’ll probably be good at everything. Girls test just as high as boys do in national programs, you know.”

Gusty’s heart swelled with love and gratitude. Five brief weeks ago she’d surfaced from a murder attempt in the Columbia River, and today she had a husband, a child and a generous, loving family.

She was going to stop worrying about the past. If it came, that would be wonderful, a blessing. If it didn’t, she could live without it. The here and now was all she needed.

The OB-GYN her sisters had recommended told her what to expect of herself in the first month after birth, and as far as Gusty could tell, she was right on track, even ahead of most.

The pediatrician agreed that Sadie shone among her peers. Gusty was sure her eyes and little limbs moved in a way that anyone would find superior to all other children.

And she was delighted to find herself in the fifty percent of women who felt wonderful after childbirth, and experienced none of the postpartum depression and mood swings common to many.

She was sore, tired easily, though she did feel stronger every day, and found it demoralizing that her maternity clothes didn’t fit all that badly.

The book assured her that her stomach would flatten in another week or so, but she’d have killed to be able to wear the black jeans Alexis wore, or the woolen stirrups Athena sported with such svelte style and grace.

Bram didn’t seem to notice. Of course, he was probably too tired to know his own name. He often got up with her at night to help with Sadie and walked the baby if she fussed so Gusty could go back to sleep.

In the two-hour intervals of silence, they lay curled up like spoons, Gusty wrapped in his arms.

With Sadie in a soft baby carrier Gusty wore in the front, she mixed together the ingredients for meat loaf, thinking it ironic that she’d wondered just a week ago if their sleeping together would be difficult for Bram. The truth was, it was becoming difficult for her.

For a woman who should be experiencing zero sex drive, she lay quietly in Bram’s arms every night while he slept, acutely aware of every place their bodies were in contact, of her own response to his touch, of wanting more.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.