More Than Friends by Barbara Delinsky

Author:Barbara Delinsky
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061803147
Publisher: HarperCollins

Teke was at the rehabilitation center working with Michael and his therapist when a nurse tracked her down. “You have a phone call, Mrs. Maxwell. He says it’s urgent.”

“Must be your dad,” Teke said. Hiding a rise of nervousness, she gave Michael’s shoulder a squeeze. “I’ll be right back.”

The nurse waited until she was in the hall to scold, “It isn’t your husband. It’s Sam Pope. I explained that you were busy and that I didn’t have the time to hunt around for you, but he was insistent.”

Teke grew frightened. She imagined a dozen urgent messages Sam might deliver, none of them happy. Her heart was pounding by the time she reached the phone. “What happened, Sam? Is it Jana, or Leigh?”

“No, no. They’re fine.”

“Annie?”

“She’s okay. Teke, are you pregnant?”

Teke’s mind drew a momentary blank. “Excuse me?”

“Lots of women conceive in their forties. If you did, you should have already missed a period.”

Pregnant? From their one, aborted, ill-fated time together? She made a high, slightly hysterical sound and said a small, silent prayer that none of those other urgent things had come to pass. “I didn’t miss. I’m not pregnant.”

Sam sighed in obvious relief. “Thank God. There could be a helluva lot of worse things than our producing a child, but under the circumstances I can’t think of many. Sorry, Teke. I didn’t mean to scare you, but J.D. put that bug in my ear, and it was buzzing so loud I couldn’t hear a damn thing.”

“That’s an Annie analogy,” Teke said with a fond smile. She missed Annie. She couldn’t begin to think of what Annie would have felt if she had become pregnant with Sam’s child.

“How’s Michael?” Sam asked more calmly.

“Cranky. But more for me than for anyone else. I wonder if he’ll ever forgive me.”

“I’ll talk with him about that.”

“It won’t be easy. You’re pretty high on his shit list, too.” Thank God she wasn’t pregnant! That would have been a disaster where Michael was concerned.

“I can try. You just keep up all you’re doing. Sooner or later he’ll realize how much you love him.”

She was counting on that. At times it was all that kept her going.

“Hang in there, Teke. If you need anything at home, just yell.”

She really did love Sam, for just that kind of care. “Annie may not like that.”

“Annie feels as badly as I do that J.D. moved out and left you alone. She made me promise to stay in town late tonight so that she could invite your girls over for dinner without my presence spoiling things.”

“Oh, Sam.”

“I can live with it. So you’ll stay later with Michael?”

“Uh-huh.” It was one immediate problem solved. She was grateful for every little bit of help. “Please thank Annie for me.”

“I will. Take care, Teke.”

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