THE COWBOY'S PRIDE AND JOY by MAUREEN CHILD

Author:MAUREEN CHILD, [CHILD,, MAUREEN]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2014-10-01T04:00:00+00:00

Seven

“My son?” Silently, Jake congratulated himself on the self-control that kept his voice from raging with the fury erupting inside him. He looked into those soft gray eyes, read her defiance, and that damn near pushed him over the edge.

He couldn’t believe this. For nearly a year and a half, this woman had haunted him, waking and sleeping. Hell, he’d hardly known her and shouldn’t have given her another thought once she was gone. But he had. He’d missed her body and the soft, slick feel of her skin beneath his palms. The sound of her voice. Her laughter. The smoke-gray eyes that betrayed everything she was thinking, feeling. He’d missed the feel of her in his arms, the sighs as he entered her and the gasping groans when they each found their release.

Jake had even fantasized a couple times about seeing her here again.

He just had never imagined her carrying his child along with her.

His child.

He had a son.

She’d been keeping the truth from him for a year and a half and he still felt that rush of desire he hadn’t found with anyone else. He looked at her and his body tightened, his heart banged against his rib cage, and his hands itched to touch her.

Didn’t matter, it seemed, what she’d kept from him. He wanted her.

Grimly, he pushed those needs aside in favor of facing her down with the hard truth currently smiling up at him from a drooly face.

“What the hell, Cassie?” The words were ground from his throat as sharp and cold as pieces of broken glass.

“Don’t swear in front of the baby,” she muttered and pushed right past him into the house. Then she stopped, looking up at him. “We have to talk.”

“Yeah,” he said, torn between dumbfounded shock and pure fury. “I’d say so.”

Anna came hurrying down the hall, glared at Jake and clucked her tongue at him so fast, it sounded like machine-gun fire. Then she dropped one arm around Cassie, enveloping her and the baby she carried, and steered them off to the great room.

“You come on in here and get warm by the fire,” his turncoat housekeeper was saying. “And you give me a peek at that little darling, too...”

Jake shook his head and snatched off his hat, crumpling the brim in one tight fist. The wind rushing through the still-open front door sliced through his coat with icy knives, but he hardly felt it. Mind racing, emotions churning, his gaze landed on Charlie, standing in the yard staring at him.

“Sorry, boss. Cass called Ben from the airport and Ben sent me to fetch her.”

Why the hell hadn’t Ben said anything to Jake? Warned him? That was a thought for later. Right now, he looked at his foreman and said, “It’s fine.”

“I’ll bring in the baby’s car seat and Cass’s bags,” Charlie said, wincing a little at the words.

“Her bags? Of course she has bags.” Seemed that she had plans to stay. Well, good, because she wasn’t going anywhere until Jake had answers to all of the questions racing through his mind.

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