Ransom Canyon by Thomas Jodi

Author:Thomas, Jodi [Thomas, Jodi]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Staten

STATEN KIRKLAND DIDN’T remember much about driving back from Quinn’s farm. He must have gone a hundred through town. There didn’t seem enough air in Texas to breathe until the cliffs of Ransom Canyon rose before him, and he knew he was almost home. His always-pessimistic thoughts were piling up in his brain.

She wasn’t a young girl barely out of her teens as Amalah had been. What if Quinn died during delivery or lost the baby? Hell, even with a healthy baby they’d be living on Social Security before the kid could graduate from college.

But no matter how the worries stacked up, a tiny part of him knew that he wanted to be involved in his child’s life. He wanted this baby. He felt as if he’d just awakened on Christmas morning and been given a gift he didn’t know to even ask for. A wonderful gift that came with a bucket-load of worry and a ton of excitement.

Quinn would be a good mother, no doubt about that, only Staten had no idea what kind of father he might be. He was no longer in his twenties. He had hardened so much, he might not have enough love to spread out over all the growing-up years.

Might not be an option anyway. He may have slammed the door on any chance he had by asking if she was sure it was his kid. Staten swore for a few miles. He should write a manual of the dumbest thing to say when a woman tells you she’s pregnant. Apparently, he was a natural-born expert.

Think. You’ve got to straighten this out. All he had to do was talk Quinn into speaking to him again. Right about now the mother of his future child was probably plotting to murder him.

What had she said? This is my baby. I’ll take care of it. People don’t even have to know it’s yours.

Damn, he didn’t care if the whole country knew it was his. It was his. In six months he’d be a father again, and damn it, he planned to do it right.

Hell, he thought, I have six months to stop saying damn and hell. Women didn’t think much of a man who cussed around newborns. Which made no sense. They didn’t understand a word you were saying anyway.

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