The Baby Favor by Andrea Laurence

Author:Andrea Laurence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Desire
Published: 2017-07-20T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

Things were going well. Too well.

Mason wasn’t known for being the most optimistic person. Running his own company had taught him to always watch for the other shoe to drop. After his talk with Scarlet the other night, things had made a turn for the better. They seemed to really be giving this a chance. He was actually sleeping in their bedroom again, leaving her studio and the lumpy futon behind. Now he got to fall asleep every night with the scent of Scarlet’s shampoo on his pillowcase and the warm curve of her body pressed into his.

He could almost forget that the drama of the last year or so had ever happened. And that was what worried him the most. He was not one to get lulled into complacency. That was when fate would throw a curve ball and hit you squarely upside the head. He just wasn’t sure what direction the threat would come from next. Would Scarlet decide that she really did want her own child? Would something else drive them apart? Jay’s death? Something with Luna? He didn’t know. There was no way to know. That was just life. He just needed to be ready for the eventuality.

When Mason pulled his car into the garage that evening, there were no curve balls in sight. When he stepped inside, he could hear commotion out back and saw that Scarlet, Carroll and Luna were playing in the pool together. He stood for a moment at the window, watching Scarlet and Luna.

Scarlet’s dark hair was twisted into a messy knot on the top of her head to keep it dry. She was wearing the red halter bikini he’d chosen for her at one of his shops a few years before. She was bouncing up and down, holding on to a little floaty chair that kept Luna upright in the water. The baby was wearing a hot-pink zebra swimsuit with giant sunglasses that nearly covered half her face. She was happily splashing her hands and giggling as the water went everywhere.

The look on Scarlet’s face as she played with her niece was enough to make a man melt. Devotion, wonder, joy, amazement...all of those things and more were wrapped up in the wide smile that crossed her face. She was meant to be a mother. He’d always known that, he just hadn’t been sure how to make it happen before Luna came into their lives. He might never be able to provide that opportunity the old-fashioned way, but he’d brought a child into her life nonetheless.

He hoped it was enough.

The smile on his own face faded away as he realized what it had cost his family to make it a reality. It was hard to focus on the happiness, on this second chance they’d been given, when it was costing them both Rachel’s and Jay’s lives. That was a high price, and not how he ever would’ve wanted it to happen. And yet, here Luna was, in need of a home just as surely as Scarlet needed a child.

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