This Baby Business by Heatherly Bell

Author:Heatherly Bell [Bell, Heatherly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Superromance
Published: 2017-12-15T05:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

AFTER GETTING HOME, taking a shower and getting all the mud out of her hair, Carly forced herself to take care of some bookkeeping. But her mind kept going back to Levi in the office at Magnum Aviation.

I have plans for you. Not here.

Oh, she wanted to hear more about those plans. Considering she had arranged for his engagement without his knowledge, anything else that happened between them after that would have to be his idea. She’d already done enough. And worse, when her tongue had become disengaged from her brain and she’d told Irene they were engaged, she’d failed to consider any women Levi might be dating. What did that lapse in judgment say about her?

Maybe it said that the desperation she’d felt for so long about selling and getting her father some help had spilled over into all areas of her life. Little did Levi know when he’d brought Grace over here to ask for a favor that he’d be swept up into her plans and not the other way around.

But at last this baby business was thriving again after months of being dead in the water. So she didn’t need Levi and his hot kisses and orgasms right now, not even as a nice distraction. Even if, at the moment, a nice distraction and a little bit of fun wouldn’t kill her. But she didn’t need the kissing that made her feel awake for the first time since Mom’s death and Dad’s accident. The touches that made her legs weak enough to match her resolve. She didn’t know if she could stay away, but she had no business getting involved with a single dad.

For the first time in a while, New York was a little seed of an idea taking root. Maybe Dad was right and she hadn’t given it enough of a chance. Jenny was obviously still in the city, so Carly would know at least one person there. She’d checked, and Alec was no longer teaching at the FIT—not that she should let him stop her from enrolling again, anyway.

But she did love Fortune. Loved the small-town mix of rural and suburban. The old working farms and vineyards that butted up against newer housing developments. The residents, nosy, but supportive of every worthy cause that came along. They were good people. She had history here. Good friends like Zoey and Jill. Life was simple here. Easy.

But maybe easy wasn’t what she needed.

Later that evening, she was in the middle of an episode in season two of The Fall, wondering if she should break out her sewing machine and work on a few more dresses for Grace instead of watching a show about a serial killer while alone, when she heard a rustling sound outside. She went to the door, going first by the kitchen to grab her sharpest butcher knife in one hand, cell phone in the other, thumb poised to dial nine-one-one. She peeked through the peephole.

Nothing. Paranoid much?

She went back to the kitchen to put the knife away, then grabbed a soda and stepped out into the fall night.

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