Her Favorite Maverick by Christine Rimmer

Author:Christine Rimmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2019-04-09T18:24:38+00:00

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Thursday was the Fourth of July.

They had breakfast together at the cottage—Sarah, Sophia and Logan. He filled more pages of her notebook with sketches of Sarah at the stove flipping pancakes and then of Sophia in her bouncy seat, laughing and waving her little arms.

In the late afternoon, Sarah dressed her baby in red, white and blue, and the three of them joined their neighbors in Rust Creek Falls Park for a community barbecue. Sarah’s parents were there and Lily was, too. They all sat together on a big blanket Sarah had brought. When it came time to eat, they shared a picnic table. Everybody wanted to hold the baby. Sophia loved the attention. She hardly fussed at all, even dropping off to sleep in her baby seat when she got tired.

Laura Crawford, Nate Crawford’s mom, who was a fixture behind the counter at Crawford’s General Store, stopped by to chat with Sarah’s mom and dad. Sophia was awake again by then and Mrs. Crawford asked to hold her.

“She’s such a good baby,” the older woman said as Sophia grabbed her finger and tried to use it as a teething toy. Laura Crawford glanced at Logan. “And she has your eyes.”

For a second, Sarah’s skin felt too hot and her pulse started racing. She felt thoroughly dissed. Surely everyone in town knew that she was a single mom and that Logan Crawford—a relative of Laura’s, after all—was not her baby daddy.

But Laura wasn’t a mean person. Most likely, she just meant it in a teasing way, because Logan and Sophia both had blue eyes and Sarah and Logan were making no secret of their current coupled-up status.

And what did it matter what Laura Crawford actually thought? Sarah intended to enjoy every minute of her time with Logan. A random remark by Nate Crawford’s mom wasn’t going to make her feel bad about herself or her choices.

Clearly, Logan wasn’t bothered in the least. He grinned at Laura. “You noticed,” he said, at which point Sophia decided she wanted him to hold her.

“Ah, da!” the baby crowed, reaching out her arms to Logan, falling toward him.

Logan jumped up to catch her as Mrs. Crawford reluctantly let her go. Once he had Sophia safely in his arms, she patted his cheek and babbled out more happy nonsense.

A little later, Flo and Mack said they were going on home. Flo volunteered to take Sophia. “Stay for the dancing,” she told Sarah. “You can pick the baby up on your way home. Or if it gets too late, she can just stay with us. Come get her first thing in the morning.”

“Thanks, Mom.” Really, it was nice. To have her mom and dad close by—especially her mom and dad the way they were now, happy and kind of easygoing, fun to be around. Sarah was even starting to get used to her mother’s new frankness about sex and relationships. If Flo and Mack would just quit exploring their new sexual freedom at the office, Sarah would have zero complaints when it came to her parents.

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