Tyler by Miller Linda Lael

Author:Miller, Linda Lael [Miller, Linda Lael]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Montana Creeds
Publisher: HQN
Published: 2009-02-02T06:00:00+00:00

L ILY SAT, IMMOBILIZED , in the spare room bed, staring at the wall. Trying to absorb what her mother-in-law had told her on the telephone just a few minutes before.

Burke had had a vasectomy. A secret vasectomy.

He’d only pretended to want more children after Tess—obviously, he hadn’t. Why hadn’t he just told her, though, instead of letting her get her hopes up, over and over again, only to have them shattered every month when her period came?

He’d always acted so sympathetic.

I’m sorry, honey. Maybe next month.

Dazed, Lily heard her father’s voice in the kitchen, and Tess’s, both of them sounding worried, though she couldn’t make out their actual words. They might as well have been speaking some obscure dialect as English.

Presently, Hal opened her door a crack and popped his head in. “Everything okay?” he asked.

For all practical intents and purposes, she’d lost her job.

She’d just learned that Burke’s deceit had gone well beyond breaking their marriage vows.

Night before last, she’d engaged in an unprotected sex marathon with a man who was about as likely to be sterile as a jackrabbit.

Oh, yeah. Everything was okay. It was just peachy.

And none of it, Lily reminded herself with an inward sigh, was her father’s fault.

She worked up a smile. “I’m just feeling a little lazy this morning,” she lied.

“Breakfast is cooking,” Hal said. Whether he believed her or not, she couldn’t tell.

“Not toaster waffles, I hope,” Lily responded.

“Oatmeal,” he said, raising both eyebrows and wriggling them a little.

He’d always been able to make Lily laugh by doing that, for as long as she could remember. And that morning was no exception.

In spite of everything, Lily giggled.

And it felt good.

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