Right by Her Side by Christie Ridgway

Author:Christie Ridgway
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: American Light Romantic Fiction, Man-woman relationships, Romance: Modern, Nurses, Contemporary, Oregon, General, Romance, Romance - General, Artificial insemination, Romance - Contemporary, Fiction, Love stories, Fiction - Romance
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-04-01T20:09:09.250000+00:00

Eight

After the dinner at Katie and Peter’s, Trent took Rebecca home and then steered her into the kitchen. She’d appeared somewhat relaxed and animated at his sister’s, but she’d gone tense and quiet in the car on the way back. He pushed her into a chair, raided the cookie jar for a handful of cookies that he put on a plate in front of her. Then he inspected the fridge, bypassing the pitcher of green tea to pour them both some lemonade.

He took a seat across from her and pushed a glass her way. “All right, out with it.” He wouldn’t sleep until he silenced all the voices that he could tell were whirling in Rebecca’s brain.

She sighed. “Tonight…”

“Was a success. My sister thinks you’re great. Peter got to drill you on baby stuff.” Trent shook his head. “There’s an overprotective father in the making.”

She went silent again, staring down at the table. “It’s not fair to you,” she finally said.

He took a swallow from his glass, eyeing her over the rim. “About Peter? Don’t see how. I’ll probably be an overprotective dad myself.”

“It’s not fair to you that you’re going to be a father.”

She was going to bring up that mistake business again. He frowned.

“You didn’t want a child right now,” she continued. “I did.”

“So—”

“So it wasn’t anything as…magical, as spiritual as fate that made me pregnant with your baby. It was someone’s ugly, malicious act!”

Trent stilled. He could point out that the end result was the same, that if she was going to have his child—by whatever means it had happened—he was determined to be the baby’s father. He could bring fate back into the picture again by mentioning that some Greater Order had certainly still had its hand in. Of all the vials that had been rearranged, it was Trent’s, after all, that had found its way to Rebecca. But that wouldn’t cheer her either.

“Something ‘ugly’ is not part of our baby, Rebecca.”

“I don’t want it to be,” she whispered. “I wish it wasn’t.”

He reached across for her hand. “Nothing that has to do with you could ever be ugly.” After averting his gaze from her for days, he hadn’t been able to avoid looking at her that evening. She wore a matching skirt and sweater, both in a soft fabric the color of vanilla ice cream. Her hair was down in those loose, sexy curls again. “I couldn’t keep my eyes off you all night.”

She darted him a swift look. “Thanks.”

But no cigar. She wasn’t fishing for compliments. “What do you need, Rebecca? Can you tell me that?”

“You didn’t want a child,” she said again. “You didn’t want a wife.”

“I want you.”

Those Bambi eyes met his for another instant, dropped again. “Right.”

“Every day, Rebecca. Every night.”

She shook her head. “You don’t need to say that.”

But he needed to do something. That was clear. And what he needed to do and what he wanted to do were suddenly coming together in one idea that felt entirely right to him.

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