The Baby Twins (Babies & Bachelors USA) by Laura Marie Altom

Author:Laura Marie Altom [Altom, Laura Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Family & Domestic Life, Pilot's Widow, Young Children-Twins, Single Father, Young Child-Daughter, Contemporary Romance, Women's Fiction, Forever Love, Bachelor, Single Mother, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Lifetime Love, Life-Changes, Second Chances, Honesty & Trust, Home & Family, Romantic Schemes, Small Town & Rural Area, Beautiful & Feisty, Love-Family & Forever, Action & Adventure
Publisher: Harlequin American Romance Classic; Original edition
Published: 2010-05-21T04:00:00+00:00

“HE LEFT JUST LIKE THAT?” Gabby asked three days later. In honor of Gabby’s birthday, Olivia was treating herself, the birthday girl and Stephanie to the works at a Little Rock spa. They currently shared a mud bath.

The babies were all with Olivia and Tag’s sitter back at their house while Helen manned the pastry shop.

“Yep,” Stephanie said, drawing rapidly dissolving smiley faces in the mud.

“He didn’t say goodbye or anything?” Olivia probed. With her long red hair piled on top of her head, she was the only woman Stephanie knew who managed to look elegant while sitting in mud.

“Nope.” Honestly, couldn’t they just leave it alone? Stephanie loved her friends, but sometimes they acted as though her personal life was as exciting as a pair of Coach shoes marked down for clearance! “Did I tell you that Melanie pulled herself up next to the sofa?”

“I was there when she did it,” Olivia said, “and nice try at changing the subject, but it’s not going to work. Lindsay Flanders told me at Junior League that your pilot won you the prize her daughter had been eyeing at the Fall Festival. She also said he was seriously hot.”

Stephanie rolled her eyes. “Brady and I were just friends. Heavy emphasis on the were.”

“Sure,” Gabby said, flicking Stephanie with mud. Sometime during the soaking process, her ponytail holder had snapped, leaving her long black hair plastered to her neck and shoulders. “And I’m leaving Dane to become a nun.”

“I’m not surprised. Your husband can be kind of bossy,” Steph pointed out.

Gabby frowned.

“All kidding aside,” Olivia said, “did you all fight? Is that why he left so abruptly?”

“Yes, we fought. I don’t even remember what I said to tick him off, but you know how I told you his wife left him for another man?”

Her friends nodded.

“Well, turns out, that man was his brother. And he wasn’t nearly as noble as Dane was with Gabby.”

Olivia whistled. “That had to be tough. But if he volunteered the information, why was he mad at you?”

“Beats me,” Stephanie said with a shrug, hoping her friends wouldn’t notice the heat rising in her cheeks. The more she thought about it, the more ashamed she felt for pushing him too far. Had she been a true friend, she never would’ve asked what he’d done to drive Clarissa away. Whether he’d been to blame for their marriage falling apart, or not, she’d been cruel to put the topic on the table.

“Are you going to call him?” Gabby wanted to know.

“I think not.” Cupping warm mud in her palm, she let it trickle between her fingers.

“Why?” Olivia asked.

“For starters, because he obviously wants nothing to do with me. Then there’s the fact that he lives a thousand miles away. And how about me never having time to spend with my girls, let alone some guy from my past who was better off staying there?”

“All excellent points,” Gabby said, “but you left out the most important.”

“What might that be?” Steph asked, not really wanting to know.

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