Just His Luck by B. J. Daniels

Author:B. J. Daniels [Daniels, B. J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HQN Books
Published: 2019-07-09T18:58:18+00:00

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SHADE HAD BEEN doing little other than asking himself what he was going to do about Maisie. Now sitting on the end of his bed talking to Dorothea, he shook his head. “If that little girl is mine...”

“Do you really need the DNA test to confirm what you already know?” Dorothea asked.

Shade pushed to his feet and raked a hand through his hair. “Am I ready to be a father? Hell’s bells, until recently, I would have told you I wasn’t ready to settle down and be a husband. I thought kids were so far into the future I never gave them a thought. But when I saw Maisie...”

“She’s already stolen a piece of your heart.”

He turned to look at her. “She has and I don’t want her to. What if she isn’t mine? What if Hannah is lying about everything? What if I make a terrible father and Maisie ends up hating me?”

“You’re that afraid of getting your heart broken? No wonder you’ve never had any relationships longer than a few months,” Dorothea said, getting to her feet. “A child is a lifetime relationship. So you’ll have time to figure out fatherhood, trust me. You think I knew what to do with you boys when your mother died? I had to wing it and have faith. Since I already loved the lot of you...”

He smiled at her. “You’ve done a great job.”

She scoffed at that. “That’s my point. You don’t have to do a great job. You just have to do your best out of love. Have you told Lizzy yet?”

He swore. “We haven’t even been on a date. Don’t you think it’s a little early to be dumping this on her?”

“Have a little faith in her. If Lizzy is the right woman for you, then she can handle it. It will come as a shock—just as it has for you—but it sounds to me like you and Maisie are going to be a package deal.”

His cell phone rang, making him jump. Checking it, he saw that the call was from the lab. He let it ring a second time as he braced himself and picked up. “Yes, this is Shade Sterling. Yes, I’d prefer to get the results now over the phone, please.”

He listened, then disconnected before turning to stare at the woman he’d trusted his secrets to since he was a boy. “I’m a father of a two-year-old.”

She smiled and nodded, tears in her eyes as she clasped her hands as if in prayer. “I can’t wait.”

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