Leaving to Stay: A Bad Boy Rock Star Babies Romance (Baby Fever Book 1) by Nicole Casey

Author:Nicole Casey [Casey, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-06-14T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Geneva

Four Years Later

“Cheyenne, I am not going to tell you again!” I yelled. “Next time, you’re gonna get a tap on your rump!”

“Wyatt ain’t got on his shoes either!” my daughter protested. “Look!”

“Wyatt,” I said between clenched teeth. “You are both trying my patience!”

“Just go,” Sara laughed as she entered the kitchen. “You’re gonna be late if you try to wrangle these two all day long.”

“Emma is expecting them,” I protested.

“I can watch them today,” she assured me. “Don’t worry.”

I looked at her gratefully and then at the time on the microwave. My sister-in-law was right. If I wasted one more minute fighting with them, I was going to lose my audition and I couldn’t afford it.

“Are you sure?” I asked her but there was no real concern in my voice. I knew my brother’s wife was a saint, one who loved my unruly children for some reason I could not entirely fathom.

I mean, I adored them, despite the daily reminder of the man I’d lost, their resemblance uncanny to their father. But they were mine, and I loved them.

Sara’s patience with the three-year-old twins was beyond anything I’d ever seen. She was wasting her talents as a housewife, no matter how much money my brother made in real estate. She would be the most sought-after daycare worker in the world if she ventured into childcare.

“No, wait, mama!” Cheyenne shrieked as I grabbed my purse from the counter. “I ain’t gonna be long! I come with you!”

I smiled affectionately down at the blonde imp who was my bossy, impossible daughter. Her face was contorted in worry.

“Not today, baby. Mama’s got an important interview today. This could change a lot for us if it goes well.”

She stared at me with green eyes exactly like Jude’s, as if she didn’t believe a word that was coming out of my mouth.

“Like what?” she demanded.

“Like we can get our own house,” I offered, casting Sara a wry smile.

“Why? We live with Auntie Sara and Uncle Marc,” Wyatt piped in, poking his head out from beneath the kitchen table where he was playing with his action figures.

“And we love having you here!” Sara added, looking at me meaningfully. I smiled wryly at them ganging up on me but I knew what needed to be done.

It had been a rocky four years, the moving the trailer from Elizabeth to Lafayette so I could give birth near the only family I had; a brother who was furious with me for being an unwed mother.

“It’s a new millennium, Marc,” I’d told him. “Having a husband isn’t a prerequisite for having babies.”

“Babies! Twins! How the hell are you going to sustain yourself?”

“She can stay with us when the twins are born,” Sara interjected in her calm way. “It will be nice to have little ones running around.”

There had been a wistfulness in her tone and it only fueled my guilt, knowing that Sara was unable to have children of her own.

“Just until I get on my feet again,” I promised.

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