Natural Born Daddy by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MIRA
Published: 2015-07-30T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“Mommy, is Jordan going to be my new daddy?” Dani asked the following morning while shoving her French toast around in a puddle of syrup.

The unexpected question brought up the subject that had kept Kelly awake all night long.

“If he has his way, he is,” Kelly muttered before she could catch herself.

She hadn’t anticipated getting into this before she’d even had her first cup of coffee. In fact, she hadn’t intended to get into it with her daughter at all, at least not until the matter was more settled with Jordan himself.

“When?”

“That’s hard to say, sweetie. There are some things we have to work out.”

“Like what?”

Kelly thought of all the doubts that had chased through her mind. None of them were things she could share with her daughter. “Just things,” she said evasively.

Dani studied her intently and apparently concluded Kelly still wasn’t convinced that Jordan would make a proper daddy. “I like Jordan,” she informed her mother firmly. “I think he would make a very good daddy.”

Kelly wondered if her daughter had insights into Jordan that hadn’t come to her yet. “Why is that?” she asked.

“He brings me candy.”

Kelly refrained from labeling the candy what it was—bribery. Hadn’t he tried the very same tactic on her? She’d already told Jordan half a dozen times to cut it out or he’d be paying Dani’s dental bills.

“Don’t you like Jordan?” Dani inquired worriedly. “You used to be bestest friends, that’s what you said.”

“Most of the time I like him very much,” Kelly conceded.

“More than Daddy?”

Ah, now there was a mine field if ever Kelly had seen one. She had prepared an answer to that long ago, knowing sooner or later that rather plaintive question or one very similar was going to come up. Dani was too precocious not to ask difficult questions about the man who had sired her but spent very little time in her life.

“Your father is a fine man,” she said, almost by rote. “He and I just weren’t well suited. We were very young and we made a mistake getting married.”

Dani contemplated that for a while, then turned a troubled look on Kelly. “Was I a mistake, too?”

Tears sprang to Kelly’s eyes. She wrapped Dani in a hug and squeezed, peppering her worried little face with kisses. “Never, not in a million years. You are the very best part of my life. I wanted you more than anything.”

“Daddy, too? Did he want me more than anything?”

Kelly cursed the man she’d once been married to for putting her on more tricky turf. Paul had never been inclined to have children, had agreed to Kelly getting pregnant only after frequent arguments. It had been yet another mistake on Kelly’s part. She had thought Paul would love being a father, once he’d gotten over being terrified by the idea of it. She’d been convinced he would take to it. He hadn’t. It was one reason she’d watched Jordan’s behavior with Dani so closely, one reason she had fretted over how well the two of them would get along.

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