No Exchanges, No Returns by Laurie Kellogg

Author:Laurie Kellogg [Kellogg, Laurie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: cookie429, Kat, Extratorrents
ISBN: 9781938618086
Amazon: 1938618084
Publisher: LK Books
Published: 2012-10-27T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

The feminists of the world had it all wrong. God was definitely not a woman. If He were, pregnancy wouldn’t take nine months.

Casey rubbed her aching back early Thursday evening and stepped to the opposite side of the nursery to analyze the Mother Goose mural she’d spent the day sketching.

“Tinkerbelle?” David yelled from the first floor. “Are you up there?”

“Yup.” Brushing the bits of eraser from her pink tank top, she strolled out to the upstairs landing.

He gazed up at her from the foyer. “Would you mind coming down? I want to show you something outside.”

Wrinkling her forehead, she descended the steps and followed him out the front door. She froze at the sight of the taupe Lexus SUV parked beside the front stoop.

“It’s a hybrid so it won’t cost you much in gas.”

“You bought this for me?”

Smiling, he pulled a set of keys out of his wheat-colored trousers and handed them to her. “It’s loaded. It’s even got a DVD player for when the baby gets older.”

With all those extras, she didn’t want to think about what he must have paid for it. “Are you crazy? I can’t accept something like this.”

The excitement in his eyes dimmed. “Okay, have it your way. I bought it for the baby. Since he won’t be able to drive for another sixteen years, you’ll have to be his chauffeur.”

“Very funny. What’s everyone gonna think when they see me behind the wheel of this rolling status symbol?”

“Maybe that I take good care of my family?”

She jabbed him in the chest. “You know perfectly well that’s not what they’ll assume.”

“To be honest, I didn’t give a moment’s consideration to what the world would think.”

“Oh, didn’t you?” She stormed back into the house with David hot on her heels.

“What’s that crack supposed to mean? You think I bought that to try to make everyone think the worst of you?”

She spun on her heels halfway down the hallway and faced him. “No. What I meant was, if you weren’t concerned with what the world thinks, you would’ve simply bought a cheap sedan.” She swept her hand in an arc. “It’s just like this mini-mansion you insisted on building for my sister. She would’ve been happy in a house half this size.”

“Thanks a helluva lot.” He crossed his arms. “You think I’m a pretentious snob.”

“Not at all. If you were a snob, you’d buy yourself a fancy SUV. That’s what makes you such a darn contradiction.”

For Father’s Day, he’d given his dad an expensive watch, yet he wore a cheap digital one on his own wrist. There were no gold cufflinks or diamond tie tacks in David’s jewelry box. No designer suits or Italian leather shoes in his closet. He drove a moderately priced car and carried a cheap briefcase from a discount store. At the same time, he gave her dad a two thousand-dollar television set as a birthday present.

“You love giving expensive gifts to everyone, yet you never buy anything special for yourself. You treated

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