From Dare to Due Date by Christy Jeffries

Author:Christy Jeffries
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-08-25T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Mia didn’t go to all the local football games, but she helped the varsity cheerleaders choreograph their bigger performances and had come with Maxine and Kylie to watch the halftime show tonight.

This was her last weekend of freedom before her mom showed up on Monday for a weeklong visit. She didn’t know how she was going to get through Thanksgiving if her mom found out about the pregnancy before then. And knowing Rhonda Palinski’s nose for drama, the woman would surely find out. Especially if she spent at least five minutes in town, where everyone else seemed to have already clued in.

As Mia walked with her friends toward the stands, the small marching band blasted out a loud rendition of the Sugar Falls High School fight song. She turned toward the field and saw a man dressed in track pants and an SFHS Huskies hooded sweatshirt bent in front of one of the players, unwrapping tape from the teenager’s wrist. A bubbling blast of energy shot through her veins and Mia recognized the feeling—the sensation she got only when Garrett McCormick was close by.

That couldn’t be...

“Watch where you’re stepping, little mama,” Kylie said when Mia stumbled over the first row of bleachers. She forced her head straight and concentrated on watching what she was doing, rather than looking behind her to see what her body already knew.

He might not be dressed in one of his fancy button-down shirts with his perfectly creased slacks, but there was no doubt of exactly who it was.

What was he doing there? It was bad enough that several of her students’ parents had congratulated her this week on her pregnancy, and even worse, that most of them asked her directly if the father of her child was also the handsome new doctor in town. But did he have to flaunt it to everyone by showing up at the same events she did? No wonder the flames of gossip had been fanned into a citywide forest fire. They’d barely been seen together, but all it had taken were a few slips and a handful of sightings for suspicions to become facts.

“Nachos?” Maxine lifted a yellow goop-filled paper boat up under Mia’s nose, causing her to gag.

“No, thanks. That processed cheese smells horrible.” So did the popcorn Hunter was eating, as well as the hot dog Kylie was stuffing in her mouth.

“I was like that several weeks ago,” her pregnant friend said around bites. “Couldn’t stand the smell of anything. I think I lost ten pounds my first trimester. Then I hit twenty weeks and lately it seems like I can’t stop eating.”

But Mia couldn’t blame the sudden queasiness in her tummy on pregnancy-related nausea alone. She’d eaten anything she’d wanted to just fine since she saw Garrett on Monday evening. Well, almost anything. There had been that unfortunate beef jerky incident at the Gas N’ Mart earlier this week. Otherwise, it was only when he was around that her stomach did backflips.

She narrowed her eyes.

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