The Mommy Miracle by Lilian Darcy

Author:Lilian Darcy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-08-19T04:00:00+00:00

I must not let her see how scared I am, Dev thought.

It was perfectly safe. He knew it with his head. His heart couldn’t feel it. DJ? His precious baby girl? Fifteen weeks old and on a horse, five long feet from the ground?

But he could see what it was doing for Jodie and that made the fear unimportant. It was such a beautiful sight. Jodie’s smile. DJ’s excited bouncing, her little mouth open but serious, her hands batting in the air. The horse so slow and steady and patient.

He had to walk almost leaning against the warm equine body in order to keep one hand in place against DJ’s stomach. The other hand he rested on the back of the saddle, an inch from Jodie’s rounded backside. She’d worn stretchy jodhpurs, sand-colored, because that was what she always wore for riding, and man those things looked good on a woman’s body!

His half-side-on position gave him a perfect view of the rhythmic rock of her hips in the saddle, and the only thing that stopped him looking too long and hard and thinking all sorts of forbidden thoughts about last night and those rocking hips on the warm hood of the car was the better view he got from looking higher up, where the big, teary-eyed, dazzling grin on her face just wouldn’t go away, and the slight crookedness and lack of control in her arms and shoulders didn’t seem to matter at all.

“Oh!” she kept saying. “Ohh!” And kind of laughing and crying at the same time, while DJ sat pressed up against her and all that Jodie body language of reluctance about holding and touching her baby had miraculously gone.

He wanted to wrap his arms around her and plant exuberant smooches of congratulation all over her face. You’re amazing! He wanted to soften those same arms and give her kisses that were tender and wondering and soft on her mouth. You’re amazing.

This was what he’d been drawn to at eighteen, even though he’d never acknowledged or acted on it back then. This was what still drew him—the combination of fragility and strength, the petite body that had a warrior’s fight in it, the determination and perseverance along with a huge, dazzling, sexy smile.

If this was his old life, in New York, he knew what his next move would be. Whisk her away somewhere so that this fizzing need inside him could find a happy release. Ten days in Paris, a three-day weekend in the Bahamas. It had worked for him, in the past.

He always picked the right kind of woman, sophisticated and high maintenance and impossibly well-groomed. Always had a great time, while in the back of his mind—and the woman’s—the clock ticked and the objections mounted up.

He couldn’t have spent his life with a woman whose grooming rituals took up two hours of every single day. She—a series of them, over the years—couldn’t have spent hers with someone who read the international section of the newspaper every day like he was prepping for an exam and then actually wanted to talk about it.

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