ROMANCE: The Navy SEALs Secret Baby by Vanessa Rose

Author:Vanessa Rose [Rose, Vanessa]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Multicultural, Westerns, United States, Western, Military, African American, Multicultural & Interracial, Literature & Fiction
Amazon: B012GZXISW
Published: 2015-07-23T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5: Family Reunion

“You okay with this?” I asked.

Dylan shifted uncomfortably in the back of the cab, looking like he was riding towards the gallows as he loosened his tie and emitted a low groan.

“Just didn’t think you’d be bringing me around to meet the folks so soon,” he said.

“Not folks,” I said. “My sister. And she’s harmless.”

Betty hadn’t had much time for me since her big news. Maybe a baby on the way meant that she’d want to find her way back to the moments when we huddled together under quilts, wondered where our mother was at and hoped for our father to hold his temper for the next day into forever. But Betty did more than marry. She found a new family, a mother-in-law cherishing her, calling her the daughter that she had never had and always wanted. She was happy to hide away from the memories with them. I could fault my sister for the move, but I chose to dwell on the sweet moments that were as she longed to look to the happy times ahead. It was just how we coped.

But no way she was going to leave me out in the cold when my first niece finally entered the world.

“Dylan?”

Over and over again I told him that he didn’t have to make the trip with me. He could have waited for me in bed. I was always coming back. But he seemed excited to sneak a peek at my life before.

Until the reality obviously weighed down on his soul.

“You can hang out front,” I said. “I don’t mind going in without---”

“Gabrielle, I said I would do this with you,” he said. “I’m not gonna back out now.”

He still seemed on edge as the cab pulled to the curb. I asked the driver to hang out and secured the promise with a twenty as I slipped away from the leather and took hold of Dylan’s arm.

“This good?” I asked as I pushed my store bought bouquet of daises and mums before his eyes. Dylan lowered his nose to the limp flowers and smiled lightly.

“Pink and white,” he said. “Just right for a little girl.

Clutching his arm tighter, we moved together through the lobby and waited before a bank of elevators. Dylan tapped his toes and brushed the skin under his collar when the bell finally dinged and the doors slid open. Grateful for the sight of the empty car, I pressed our bodies into wall and waited as the elevator ascended. I had only brought a boy around once before. Betty thought the redhead was all kinds of cute, but my father had other ideas when it came to the idea of his daughter hanging off of a lilywhite arm. The date that followed was all kinds of uncomfortable, and the ginger boy never asked for a second chance. But now it was just Betty. No way there was going to be a repeat of---

“Well looks who’s here!”

Betty’s mother-in-law manned the bedside like a coiffed

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