Not So New in Town by Michele Summers

Author:Michele Summers [Summers, Michele]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Published: 2015-07-06T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Dammit. Brogan glanced at Julia clutching her belly with her eyes squeezed shut. “You doing okay? We’re almost there.” Julia moaned, and her head rolled from side to side. “Five more minutes.” Really ten, but he didn’t want to add to her worry. The last time he’d rushed a pregnant woman to the hospital, his wife had been sitting next to him having a miscarriage. His insides burned with the very same searing pain he’d felt years before. No way in hell would he allow it to happen again. Not on his watch.

Brogan gave Julia’s hand a reassuring squeeze. “Breathe, Julia. Nice and easy.”

Julia released a huge breath. “Whoa. Did you feel that?” she asked, pressing his hand on her rock-hard belly.

“Fuh…was that a kick or contraction?” Brogan gave her a quick glance as he accelerated through another intersection.

“The baby’s kicking. All those contractions must’ve woken him up.” She pressed tight to his hand. “There it is again.” Baby? More like a bucking bronco. He smiled in wonder over the miracle of life growing inside Julia.

Julia pushed his hand away. “What the frick do you think you’re doing with Lucy?” she said in a low voice. The pain etched across Julia’s face had morphed into scary anger.

Shee-it. He didn’t want to discuss Lucy right now. Especially with Julia. And especially since he had no explanation. He couldn’t explain something he didn’t understand himself. He’d come over tonight to rip Lucy a new one about pimping him out to the single women in Harmony. He’d wanted to wring her neck…not kiss it.

“Nothing happened. I came by to discuss work—”

“You better not screw with her, Brogan. I mean it. Not under my roof,” Julia warned in a flat voice.

Brogan didn’t have time to clarify if Julia meant not to screw Lucy ever or only under her roof. He pulled up to the hospital entrance where an orderly met them with a wheelchair and swept Julia away. Brogan knew Julia didn’t want him anywhere near Lucy. He understood.

But he had no intentions of obeying.

* * *

“Hey, Julia…how you feeling?”

The next morning, Lucy tapped on the door to Julia’s hospital room. The antiseptic smell made Lucy’s nose twitch. Pale blue washed the walls in the room, and bright sun poured through the vertical blinds. A game show played on the TV mounted on the wall, but the sound had been muted.

The hospital bed propped Julia in the upright position, and meds and fluids dripped through an IV to stop the contractions. The doctor had said Julia suffered from dehydration, which could start premature labor. A surge of remorse swept over Lucy. She’d begrudgingly fetched numerous glasses of water for Julia the last few days, but last night when she’d allowed Brogan to make a meal of her body, hydrating Julia had been the farthest thing from her mind.

“Here, I brought you magazines.” She handed Julia three magazines on fashion, home décor, and the latest Hollywood gossip. “There’s an article in there about John Stamos and how he has an evil twin bent on destroying the world.

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