Her Little Spanish Secret by Laura Iding

Author:Laura Iding
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Medical
Published: 2012-03-25T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

KAT barely made it up to her hotel room where she collapsed in the chair beside the bed and buried her face in her hands, trying not to give in to mounting hysteria.

Miguel wanted to meet his son, and it sounded pretty certain that he would want custody. All this time she’d figured he wouldn’t want the responsibility of having a family, yet he’d made it clear that he intended to follow her back to the U.S. in order to claim Tommy as his own.

“Kat?” Diana whispered from the bed. “Are you all right?”

She lifted her head and struggled to swallow her tears. Thankfully, Tommy was sleeping in the small roll-away bed as he would only be upset to see her crying. The room was dark, but they always left the bathroom light on in case Tommy needed to get up. “Fine,” she whispered back, subtly swiping her hands over her wet cheeks. “We’ll talk in the morning.”

She wished Diana was asleep already too, because her emotions were too raw, too fragile to talk now.

Maybe Diana had been right to encourage her to wait before telling Miguel about Tommy. She wished she’d listened to her friend’s advice. But it was too late now. There was nothing to do except to move forward from here. Telling Miguel about his son was the right thing to do, but while she thought she’d prepared herself for the conversation, Miguel’s reaction had overwhelmed her.

He’d assumed she’d left her son back home, and she hadn’t possessed the courage to tell him otherwise. She could rationalize the reason was because Miguel would have come right up here to the room, demanding to see Tommy regardless of the fact that he was already asleep. Regardless of the fact that seeing a stranger might upset him.

But deep down she knew her reasons for keeping silent were far more selfish. She’d needed a little time to come to grips with how her life would change from this point on. Miguel’s demand to return immediately to the U.S. had frightened her. The fantasy she’d harbored, where Miguel would allow her to continue to raise his son while he joined Doctors Without Borders, had exploded in her face.

She crept over to the side of the roll-away bed where Tommy was sleeping to gaze down at his sweet, innocent face. He was clutching his favorite stuffed animal, Terry the tiger, to his chest. She lightly brushed her fingers over his silky dark hair, being careful not to wake him up. She wanted to gather him close into her arms, as if to reassure herself that she wasn’t going to lose him.

She pressed a soft kiss to the top of his head, before heading into the bathroom to wash her face and change into her nightgown. She crawled into her bed and stared blindly up at the ceiling, knowing she’d never relax enough to fall asleep.

Going back over the events of the evening, she couldn’t help remembering, in vivid detail, the way Miguel had kissed her.

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