Her Older Mountain Man: An Older Man Younger Woman Curvy Romance (Daddy Knows Better Book 6) by Liz Fox

Author:Liz Fox [Fox, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Colette

I wake up feeling warm and safe the next morning, buried under a soft comforter with a big man’s heavy arms twined around me.

Owen, I think as I blink sleepily. My face is pressed into the bulging, tattooed muscles of his chest, and he’s holding me gently as he still sleeps deeply. I shift and look up into his face. I don’t know for sure how old he is—late thirties or early forties, I’m guessing. A few silver hairs dot his dark beard and short-cropped hair, and I know that there are little lines that crinkle around his eyes when he smiles or laughs.

“Hmm,” he mutters, still sleeping, and pulls me closer. My tummy rolls at the sudden movement, and the reminder is enough to stop me cold.

Shit. I’ve been abandoned up here in the mountains by the father of my baby, and no amount of playing house with a relative stranger is going to solve my problems. I need to figure out a job, a place to live, daycare. Letting Owen eat me out on the steps of his house was fun--okay, earth-shatteringly hot--but that’s all it can be. My feelings aren’t the most important thing at stake here.

Owen isn’t my boyfriend. He’s not my husband. And he’s not the father of the baby growing inside of me.

I wriggle out of his embrace and slip from the bed, scooping my clothes from their neatly folded pile on the dresser. I pull them on and I’m just scraping my messy hair into a ponytail when I hear my phone ring from the charging station where I left it last night. I hurry out into the living room and snatch it up, glancing at the screen.

It’s Luke.

Time to face the music, I think.

“Luke,” I say as soon as I answer the phone. “What do you want?”

“I’ve been worried about you,” he replies easily. His voice is disarmingly friendly, as always, and I fight to keep my cool. “You didn’t answer any of my other calls or texts.”

“Luke, you sent me hours away to get rid of me,” I tell him. “Me, the mother of your child. What was I supposed to think?”

“I know. I’m so sorry,” he says. “I freaked out and just...wanted the problem to go away. For at least a little while.”

I bristle at his choice of words. “I’m not some problem. I’m a person, and I’m having a baby. Your baby.”

“Sweetness, you know what I mean.” Luke’s voice is almost pleading, and I stay silent as he keeps talking. “You’re scared and I’m scared. But we can figure this out together, I swear.”

“So what are you saying, Luke?” I ask. “Do you want to get back together or something?”

He pauses. “Maybe. Is that what you want?”

I pause for a second, and my hopeless confusion swamps me. “It’s not really about me anymore, Luke. I don’t know if we should be together, but we have to take care of the baby.”

“I...I understand,” he says. His voice is small and uncertain, and it just makes me impatient, but I let him continue.

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