Once Around by Barbara Bretton

Author:Barbara Bretton [Bretton, Barbara]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: (¯`'•.¸//(*_*)\\¸.•'´¯), General, Fiction, Romance
ISBN: 9781101573761
Publisher: Penguin Group US
Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

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Rafe wondered what she would do if he put his hand on her belly. She was so lush, so womanly, so ripe, that he wanted to feel the swelling of her body beneath his palm. Once with Karen he had tried to kiss her belly, touch her in a way that conveyed the wonder he felt, but she had pushed him away as if he were a stray dog bent on slobbery, desperate affection. He never tried again. They'd moved through her pregnancy in angry lockstep, growing apart while the baby grew bigger. They'd never really had a chance. Everyone else knew it. Only Rafe had been foolish enough to think the gods of destruction would look away. He and Karen had been a mistake from that first night in the back of his pickup truck with only the stars overhead for company, only the pounding of their hearts for music.

The baby kicked again, fluttery staccato movements that beat against him like an insistent woodpecker.

"She's not always this feisty," Molly said, looking apologetic.

"I think she's a redhead like her mother."

"Don't say that!"

"What's wrong with being a redhead?"

"What isn't?" she said, then laughed. "When I was little, I used to beg my mom to dye my hair."

"Your hair is beautiful." He'd spent nights dreaming about her hair, how it would feel against his skin.

"I want a happy, serene baby brunette," she said. "Nobody teases brunettes." She looked up at him, and if he didn't know better, he would have thought she was flirting with him. "Can you imagine terrible twos with a redhead?"

He couldn't. He hadn't been there for the terrible twos. Some other man had been playing daddy to Sarah by then. "I've always wondered what's so terrible about being two," he said. "They're short, and I can outrun them."

"They're unionized." Her blue eyes danced with mischief. He'd never seen her more alive, more beautiful. More irresistible. "Didn't you know that the one who wears the diapers rules the house?"

He liked seeing her this way, lighthearted and funny, the way he imagined she'd been before her husband took a hike.

The way he imagined she would be if she belonged to hint.

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