The Daddy Dilemma by Karen Rose Smith

Author:Karen Rose Smith [Smith, Karen Rose]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2008-12-12T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Nathan didn’t come to the cemetery often. He didn’t even know why he’d had Colleen and the baby flown here to Rapid Creek after they died, because he’d still been living and working in Minneapolis. But in his grief and loss, he’d brought them to his hometown. Because that’s where his family was? And that’s where comfort lay?

There hadn’t been any comfort.

The cemetery was still. Snow was falling. Anyone in his right mind wouldn’t be out here now. Nathan was trying to find his right mind.

Peering down at his deceased wife’s tombstone and the miniature one next to it, he felt…the hole. The hole they’d both left in his heart. The loss would always be with him, and he would always miss them. But the grief…the grief had changed. It was still there, but definitely not as intense. It was still there, yet sometimes he forgot about Colleen. And since he’d met Sara, sometimes he couldn’t find the grief.

That worried him almost as much as feeling it all the time. He’d sensed a shift in his world’s axis. That shift unsettled him. It disturbed him. Sara disturbed him.

Why had she awakened a sex drive that had been asleep for years? Why did his body respond to hers as if…as if it wanted to know hers so much better? As if a coupling could chase away any remnants of his grief. As if a tumble in bed was the only thing on his mind three-quarters of the day.

Not the only thing. Kyle was on his mind twenty-five hours a day. Kyle and the fact that if Sara was his mother she could have rights. Those rights might infringe on his.

He knew nothing good could come out of her being here. His logic told him if that DNA test was positive, he was in for a heap of trouble. Yet his body seemed to have a mind of its own where she was concerned.

If they got involved, would that make dealing with Kyle’s situation better or worse?

He thought about the hot chocolate, and the lighting of the Christmas tree, and the Christmas carol they’d sung together. Anyone looking in, anyone hearing them, would think they were a family. It hurt. It hurt damn bad, thinking about the possibility that Kyle would know another woman as his mother. Yet didn’t Kyle deserve to have a living mother? Didn’t he himself deserve to have a woman warm his bed?

Not a woman who could take your son away, the wise voice inside of him warned.

Snow coated the top of the rose-granite, heart-shaped tombstone and Nathan felt colder than he could ever remember feeling. He longed to hear Colleen’s voice, feel her presence, be sure she was watching over his son. Their son. But there was no message from above. No tap on his shoulder that told him everything would be all right. He could hardly even remember the sound of her voice.

When Nathan left the two graves, his heart was heavy from all he’d lost.

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