Grant by Jennifer Ashley

Author:Jennifer Ashley [Ashley, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Western
Publisher: JA / AG Publishing
Published: 2015-05-03T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

If Christina went to the corner drugstore and bought a pregnancy test, everyone in River County would be discussing it over their next meal.

She asked a couple friends if they needed her to pick up anything for them in Austin and drove there, using the excuse that she was buying more supplies for her move to Houston.

At a large chain grocery store in a road off Mopac, she bought what she needed. Christina ran the errands for her friends at Central Market, put a packed gallon of Amy’s Ice Cream in the cooler she’d brought with her, and headed back to Riverbend.

That night Christina went into her bathroom, opened the test box, fingers shaking, and went through with it. The test showed positive for pregnancy.

The emotions that battered Christina made her end up flat on her back in bed. First—euphoria. She’d thought for so long she couldn’t conceive. The colored stick in her bathroom told her otherwise.

She was going to have a baby. Christina hugged that knowledge to herself, tears of joy leaking from her eyes.

Then, vast confusion. From the timing, the child could be Grant’s … or it could be Ray’s. She’d been with Ray right before he’d gone to Lubbock for his bull riding. Two weeks later, she and Grant …

Christina and Grant had tried to have a baby for the last couple years they’d been together. They’d stopped using condoms, pills, or other means; it had been bare body-to-body, nothing in the way.

Nothing had happened. And they’d seriously tried. Day and night. When no baby came, it had created a hell of a lot of tension between them. They’d tried not to talk about it, but then keeping it bottled up had made it come out in nasty explosions. Finally it had been too much to take, and they’d splintered.

Now this. Christina laid her hands on her abdomen, sure she felt the spark of life there. It was incredible.

But if she and Grant hadn’t succeeded before, what was to say they suddenly could now? That meant, odds were, that the baby was Ray’s. Not good.

These days, a pregnant woman could find out who’d fathered the child inside her before it was born. Though Christina was vague about how the tests worked, she knew she wouldn’t have to wonder very long.

However, if the baby turned out to be Ray’s, that meant Christina got to tell Grant he was shooting blanks.

You could always, a little voice inside her whispered, choose which one you want and pretend he’s the father for sure.

Christina knew instantly she couldn’t. She’d never lie to her own kid, or to the potential dads. As much as she wanted the baby to be Grant’s, she couldn’t do that to Ray. It wasn’t like Ray was an evil mass murderer or anything. And maybe somewhere down the road it would be important to be aware of the family medical history. Even more than that, child and father deserved to know about each other.

No, Christina would tell the truth, no matter how painful it would be for all concerned.

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