Somebody's Baby

Author:Marilyn Pappano [Pappano, Marilyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, General, Family, Tennessee
ISBN: 9780373585786
Google: VOZD5xlTC8YC
Publisher: Silhouette Books
Published: 1988-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

The half hour passed quickly for Sarah. She enjoyed Linda Schmidt’s company, but she was glad to see Daniel pull up at the corner. She called Katie, who was finally playing with Melinda, and hand in hand they walked out to the curb.

“We have a diner and a restaurant,” Daniel said, watching Sarah fasten first Katie’s seat belt, then her own. “Where do you want to have lunch?”

She sighed. “If you don’t mind, Daniel, I’d just as soon go home.”

Because that was what he preferred, too, he didn’t argue but headed the truck out of town. They’d driven nearly ten miles before he broke the silence. “What did that woman say to you?”

“What woman?”

“Betsy.” He gave the name a dark inflection.

“Oh. Nothing worth repeating.” She saw the doubt in his expression and shrugged. “She wanted to know why I gave Katie up.”

“Did you tell her it’s none of her damn business?” he growled. Even though he had often asked the same question, he was offended that someone else had asked it too.

“It’s not worth getting annoyed over. She’s not worth it. She’s just a petty woman who needs to feel superior to everyone else. The other woman, Linda, was nice. I liked her.” She told him about the day-care program Linda had mentioned, then went on to describe Katie’s reaction to the boisterous kids. As they neared her house, she broke off. “Can we stop here and get my laundry? While you’re working this afternoon, I can take care of that.”

It took her only a few minutes to stuff her dirty clothes into a cloth bag. While he waited outside, Daniel checked the stack of firewood. He would bring more this weekend, he promised himself. Then she returned, and they continued up the mountain.

After lunch, Katie took a nap, and Daniel went to work. Sarah gathered their dirty clothes from the hampers upstairs and sorted them in the hallway outside the small laundry room. It seemed such a wifely thing to do—washing the laundry while the baby slept and the husband worked. But she wasn’t Daniel’s wife, and he didn’t want to be any woman’s husband. Some of her pleasure in the task disappeared at that thought.

…today I saw the way he looks at you.

Was there any merit to whatever change Zachary thought he was seeing in Daniel? She wanted to believe that there was, but hoped that her desperate longing wasn’t blinding her to the truth. Because there was no doubt that she was falling in love with Daniel. Every day that she spent with him, every night that she spent without him, she fell a little bit deeper, a little bit more hopelessly, in love.

She carried the first pile of clothes into the laundry room, dropped it on the floor, then reached to the shelf above her for the detergent. Standing on her toes, she stretched, but the shelf was still a good six inches above her head. It was built for someone much taller, she acknowledged as she carefully hauled herself onto the dryer.

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