The Baby Proposal

Author:Andrea Laurence
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

Eight

You need to come home. Now.

Kal frowned at his cell phone and the disconcerting text he’d just gotten from Lana. Is Akela okay? Did social services come back already?

Everyone is fine. But you’re going to want to come home and see who’s showed up. Note: it’s not social services this time.

He was usually in the office for another hour or so, but he knew better than to ignore this message from Lana. He slipped his phone into his pocket and walked out of his office. “I’m heading home,” he said to his assistant, Jane, outside the door. “I don’t think I’ll be back. Something came up.”

Jane looked at him with concern lining her face. He may have stopped staying late, but he still wasn’t the type who left in the middle of the day. “Is everything okay, sir?”

“I think so. Just unannounced visitors from the sound of it. Call the night manager on his cell phone if something happens before he arrives.”

He slipped out and got into his convertible. It only took a few minutes to drive around the property to his house, but the suspense was killing him. When he arrived, there weren’t many clues, either. Only nanny Sonia’s car and the rental SUV were parked out front. Whoever had arrived must have come by taxi.

It wasn’t until he walked in the door that he realized who had invaded. It all made sense now. His brother had flown over from Oahu.

Mano was sitting on the couch with his Seeing Eye dog, Hōkū, at his side. A thin, yet pregnant woman with long brown hair was holding Akela on her lap and cooing at her. Nanny Sonia stood out of the way as though she didn’t want to intrude on the family gathering but didn’t want to be thought neglectful of her charge, either. And then there was Lana, who turned to look at him with an expression of pure panic lighting her dark eyes.

“Honey,” she said in an overly sweet voice she never ever used when she spoke to him. “Look who’s here to spend Christmas with us.”

Christmas was three days away. They weren’t just visiting. They were unannounced holiday houseguests.

Everyone turned and looked in Kal’s direction except his brother, who had on his dark Ray-Ban sunglasses. His attention was focused on the woman beside him, who Kal assumed was Mano’s fiancée, Paige. He tried not to look dismayed by their arrival, pasting an excited smile on his face. He ensured that he matched the tone with his voice so Mano couldn’t call him out for it.

“Wow. I didn’t know you two were coming here for the holidays. This is such a great surprise. If you’d told me, I would’ve reserved our best suite for you at the hotel.”

Everyone stood up to greet him. Mano made his way over with Hōkū at his side. He hugged his brother and took a step back. “You almost sold me on that,” he said, speaking low. “And of course I didn’t tell you.

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