Love Me Tonight by Gwynne Forster

Author:Gwynne Forster [Gwynne Forster]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2011-04-06T14:00:00+00:00

Telford Harrington had no misgivings about Judson. He sat with his brothers in the office of Harrington, Inc., Architects, Engineers and Builders, situated on the top floor of the warehouse they’d built on the Harrington estate. They’d come together that morning to discuss their obligation to Judson in the event that there was incontrovertible proof of his blood relationship to them.

“Let’s look at it this way,” Russ, the least benevolent of the three, began. “There’s no doubt that Judson Philips was sired by a descendant of our grandfather, and that man seems to have been Uncle Fentriss. I don’t believe in such coincidences. You could almost mistake him for Drake. I watched him closely. How could he be so much like us and not be our cousin unless Uncle Fentriss was his father?”

“I agree with all that,” Drake said, “but for what I’m thinking, we need solid proof. He has letters from Uncle Fentriss to his adoptive mother acknowledging their affair, and circumstantial evidence that she was actually his mother, but that is not proof.”

“All right,” Telford said. “I’m willing to take a DNA test if Judson asks me to do it, but I’m not sure that will satisfy him.”

“That goes without saying,” Russ said. “If he gives me proof, he deserves a share of Uncle Fentriss’s estate, and as executor of Uncle Fentriss’s will, I couldn’t in good conscience refuse to do it.”

“We won’t argue about that,” Drake said. “Right is right.”

Telford loved his brothers and not the least because he could always count on their sense of decency and their insistence on doing what was right. As they talked, he came to an important conclusion. “I see that we’re in this together and that we’re thinking along the same lines. If we get solid proof that Uncle Fentriss was Judson’s father, I suggest we give Judson something that we inherited from Uncle Fentriss. What do you say?”

Drake stood, rubbed the back of his neck and walked to the window that overlooked the driveway and the swaying trees that lined it. “Something you said last night is jumping around in my head, Telford, and I can’t place it. But I know it’s important. It’s something you told us about Judson’s background. Let’s see. His adoptive mother had a baby out of wedlock, left it with her own mother and moved to Baltimore.” He repeated it several times. “That wasn’t it, but I’ll get it.”

“Then we’re agreed that if we get what we regard as proof—”

Russ interrupted Telford. “By proof, I mean a birth certificate and DNA tests.”

“Right,” Drake said. “What about you, Telford?”

“I’d accept less, but I’ll go along with the two of you. Is it agreed that we’ll do all we can to help Judson solve this to his satisfaction?”

“Right,” Russ and Drake said in unison.

“I’m anxious to welcome him to our family,” Drake said, “because already I like him a lot. I searched for him on Google—he’s an impressive and seemingly honorable man.”

“I agree,” Telford said.

Russ stood, stretched expansively and said, “Me, too.

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