A Baby in the Bargain

Author:Victoria Pade [Pade, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-04-06T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

“I don’t know what’s wrong with me, Jack,” Gideon confided in his friend over breakfast the next morning at a small diner down the street from Gideon’s loft.

His friend’s response was a wry, humorless imitation of a laugh. “After yesterday’s round of battles with Tiffany on the phone, hearing Sammy crying in the background because she was screaming at me, yeah, there’s a side of me that doesn’t know what’s wrong with you, either. That side of me thinks there has to be something wrong with you not to run as fast as you can from any woman. Unfortunately, there’s the other side of me.”

“That saw Jani getting off the elevator in the garage last night when you were getting on,” Gideon guessed.

Jack had shown up unexpectedly minutes after Jani had left. Gideon had been hoping the knock on his door meant she’d changed her mind and come back. Instead he’d opened it to his distraught friend. After it had become apparent that Gideon had hoped Jack was someone else, Gideon had explained the situation and they figured out that Jack had just had his first glimpse of Jani downstairs.

From then on they’d talked about Jack’s troubles. Then they’d scheduled this breakfast and Jack had left Gideon to get back to thinking about Jani. To wishing Jani had been outside his door instead of his friend. To reliving their kisses. And wanting to kiss her again. And to wanting to do more than kiss her...

Which was why this morning’s breakfast conversation was about Gideon’s demons rather than Jack’s.

“Yeah, unfortunately there’s that other side of me that saw January Camden last night,” Jack confirmed. “And that woman is something. What did you call her? A hot little number? No truer words than those! Who wouldn’t be blinded by that?”

It chafed at Gideon to hear his own early description of Jani repeated by his friend. It seemed disrespectful and demeaning. But what was he going to say to Jack? That his opinion, his feelings about Jani were different now? That would be admitting that there were feelings about Jani now. For Jani...

He didn’t even want to think about that, let alone admit it.

“Blind is not a good thing,” he said rather than addressing any of the rest of it. “I can’t lose sight—”

“Of her being a Camden, I know. But whoa! She’s gorgeous! All that great hair and those eyes? Those are some of the most beautiful eyes I’ve ever seen!”

His friend’s admiration prompted a wave of jealousy in Gideon on top of everything else...

“It’s crazy,” he muttered more to himself than to Jack. Then to Jack, he said, “She’s a damn Camden, and she wants kids in the worst way. Worse than any woman I’ve ever met. It’s like fate is laughing in my face. Not only is she a member of a family that victimized mine, but she’s also kid-obsessed. One or the other makes her poison to me and she’s both!”

“So you want to be totally turned off by her,” Jack said.

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