Montana Creeds: Tyler by Miller Linda Lael

Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Suspense, Adult, Western
ISBN: 9780373773640
Amazon: 0373773641
Barnesnoble: 0373773641
Goodreads: 5022691
Published: 2009-04-02T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

WHENLILY HADcomposed herself a little, Tyler steered her toward the back porch, sat her down on the top step. Joined her and took her hand.

He waited while she sniffled, attempted several brave little smiles and finally pulled it all together.

“I’m sorry,” she said, avoiding his gaze. “I shouldn’t have dumped on you like that, but after the other night—”

Tyler squeezed her hand. “You said you wanted more kids,” he reminded her when the moment seemed right. “Isn’t thisgood news, Lily?”

“It would be for me,” she replied, after thinking a while, staring at the flower bed her dad and daughter had been digging out when Tyler arrived. Then she met his eyes. “But what about you, Tyler? What if we made a baby when we—when we—”

Tyler chuckled, chafed her knuckles gently with the pad of his thumb. “Why is it so hard for you to say we had sex, Lily? While it was going on, you didn’t have any trouble calling it what it was—in some pretty graphic terms.”

She winced, but she didn’t pull her hand away. “Don’t remind me,” she said, yet a little smile teased one corner of her mouth, even though her eyes were serious as she studied him. “And you didn’t answer my Page 113

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question. What if we made a baby night before last, Tyler?”

“I’d insist on making an honest woman out of you,” he replied, and though his tone might have indicated that he was kidding, he’d never been more serious about anything in his life. “You wouldn’t—well—do anything, would you? To get rid of this theoretical baby?”

Lily drew in a breath that was almost sharp enough to qualify as a gasp. “Ofcourse I wouldn’t. And nobody needs to ‘make an honest woman’ out of me, Tyler Creed, because I’malready honest.”

Tyler sighed, raked his free hand through his hair. “Now it’s my turn,” he said gravely, unable to look at her, though he could feel her gaze burning into his flesh. “To be honest, I mean.”

She stiffened slightly and might have withdrawn if it hadn’t been for the firm grip he had on her hand. Out of the corner of his eye, he saw her open her mouth to say something, then close it again.

He shifted to face her. “Lily—”

“Is this about Davie?” she prompted.

He was too surprised to give a verbal answer, though he did manage a partial nod. His heart hammered at the back of his rib cage and his throat was cinched shut, as if somebody had thrown a noose around his neck and put a foot against his chest before pulling the rope tight.

“Is he yours, Tyler? Yours and Doreen’s?”

Tyler swallowed, croaked out a hoarse, “Maybe.”

Lily reached up, smoothed a lock of hair back from his forehead. That wasn’t the reaction he’d expected, and something powerful moved inside him, making it necessary to look away for a moment or two. Compose himself a little.

“What do you mean, ‘maybe’?” Lily asked gently.

“He could be,” Tyler said, still sounding like he’d barely escaped a lynching.

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