Undeniable Rogue (The Rogues Club Book One) by Annette Blair

Author:Annette Blair [Blair, Annette]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Annette Blair
Published: 2011-12-28T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FOURTEEN

When Gideon got to the nursery to fetch the boys to come and see their baby sister for the first time, Damon and Rafe were playing, but when Rafe looked up, he also looked worried.

Gideon sat in the chair, indicated by Miss Minchip. He especially wanted to give this more reserved of the twins his full attention. Rafferty would notice and feel keenly any distraction on his part. Unlike the happily playing Damon, who rarely saw the little things, because he was so busy flitting from one exciting aspect of life to the next, Rafferty missed nothing.

Gideon lifted Rafe onto his lap. “And what is on your mind, young man?”

“Is Mama sick? She looked sick last night.”

“She did not, Beetle-brain.”

“Bird-wit!”

“Nodcock!”

Gideon chuckled. “Mama is feeling fine this morning, and she wants you both to come and see the surprise we have for you.”

The pronouncement garnered Damon’s immediate and wide-eyed attention as it did Rafferty’s skeptical reserve.

“What kind of surprise?” Rafe asked

Gideon grinned. “You will have to wait and see.”

Damon ran straight to the nursery door. Rafferty shrugged his shoulders and followed cautiously behind.

For once they, neither of them, thought to take their pets.

Walking beside Gideon, Damon raised a seeking hand his way. Gideon was touched and humbled as he took the small hand in his own. The eager child bounced, pulled ahead, swung back and all but stood on his hands, asking questions all the way down the stairs.

Rafe kept to Gideon’s exact pace, giving each and every one of his answers to Damon’s questions his full attention. Gideon could almost see the workings of Rafe’s mind reflected in his expressions, as he measured and weighed those answers.

Sabrina was back in her own bed, washed, dressed, coifed, and smelling of lilacs, and she beamed when she saw them, and held out a tiny bundle, wrapped like a mummy, for their inspection.

“A brother?” Damon asked, excited.

“A sister,” Sabrina said. “Juliana.”

Rafferty shook his head. “Send it back. I really rather have a brother.”

“You have a brother,” Damon said, affronted. “Me.”

“I want one I like.”

Damon shrugged. “Too bad.” He grinned. “I wanted a dog and I got one, so a sister is fine, I guess. Can we bring her to the nursery to play, now?”

Gideon chuckled. “A little soon for that, I think. Juliana will stay with your Mama for a while.”

Juliana screwed up her face for a moment, then she calmed and blew a bubble and everyone laughed.

Damon regarded his mother. “We should show her to the man watching us from across the street. He seems sad and I think Juliana would make him laugh.”

Gideon sobered, but his wife bristled. No, more than that, she shuddered. Her face lost color, her eyes darkened and, yes, she pulled Juliana just the smallest bit closer.

“What the deuce?” Gideon asked, questioning all of it, not the least of which was Damon’s ludicrous tale. “Damon,” he warned. “You are frightening your Mama.”

“Damon,” Sabrina said. “You know what I told you about making up stories.”

“But the man is real, Mama.

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