A Dad At Last by Marie Ferrarella

Author:Marie Ferrarella
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2000-08-24T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

GETTING OFF the elevator, Connor looked around, scanning the first floor. Like some others of his species, he loathed asking directions.

Chase was beginning to doze off against Lacy’s shoulder. She shifted to get a better view of Connor. “What are you looking for?”

“The pharmacy. I want to get this prescription filled as soon as possible and I haven’t the vaguest idea where the closest one to the ranch is.”

She had a suspicion that he didn’t know where any were in the area, even though he’d been in Austin several months. Connor’s approach to life was to assimilate information as he needed it. The one exception was horses. Everything else was left in the shadows.

“Everything else,” she knew, included her, as well, but she’d made her peace with that.

Or was trying to.

“The doctor said it was to the left of the elevator, in the opposite direction of the entrance,” she reminded him softly.

“Right.” He should have remembered that. But he’d been so concerned about Chase, so worried as he watched the needle sink into his soft flesh that he’d only half heard the pediatrician. It wasn’t like him. He usually could remain detached, distant from whatever was happening. But then, a man couldn’t be faulted for being somewhat confused, having gone through what he had in the last few months. Discovering that his world, his childhood had been a tissue of lies.

Anyone would be a little off kilter after that, Connor reasoned, at least for a while.

The trouble was he was a lot off kilter and he didn’t like it.

He glanced at Chase. “Is he asleep?”

“Looks that way,” she murmured as she walked beside Connor. Lacy couldn’t resist pressing a soft kiss to the top of the baby’s head. He felt cooler already. Or maybe it was just wishful thinking. “Poor little guy’s tuckered out.”

Connor nodded, not knowing what to say. Afraid that anything he said might give away his feelings. Instead, he glanced at the piece of paper in his hand. “Hope this doesn’t take long.”

Lacy wondered if that meant he had somewhere else to be.

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