A Family, At Last by Susan Crosby

Author:Susan Crosby
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-09T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

“The test results are back?” Karyn asked, her face paling, her voice catching.

“No, although there’s a hitch there, too. I called the lab this morning to see when we could expect the results. They’ve got a backlog because they’re awaiting a replacement part for a piece of broken equipment and they have low staffing during the holidays. They’ll get to it as soon as they can, they said.” Vaughn wouldn’t have been annoyed about that because he wasn’t in a hurry to have Karyn leave, but now, after the message he’d received, it was a different story. He wanted to know now. “Let’s sit down.”

“This must be really bad news,” she said as they took seats in the living room.

Vaughn leaned toward her, resting his arms on his thighs. “This morning I talked to a man Ginger dated years ago. He’d been trying to find her. He reached her ex-roommate, the one who gave me Kyle’s name, and she told him I was looking for anyone she’d gone out with seven years ago. His name is Jason Humphreys. He lives in Seattle now.”

“And he thinks he could be the father?”

“Definitely could be, given the timeline.”

“Ginger was a busy woman.”

“That’s putting it nicely.” It proved how little he’d known her. He would never marry again without knowing someone at least a year.

“So, now what?”

“We decided to wait on your DNA results before he bothered being tested.”

“You said he was looking for Ginger. Did he tell you why?”

“He didn’t volunteer the information, and I didn’t ask.”

“Was he the only other name you had as a possibility?”

“No.” There’d been a couple others, but he’d been able to eliminate them. He felt like such a fool for falling for Ginger, believing her story about the father abandoning her, offering only to pay for an abortion. Would he ever find out the truth?

“How was your day?” he asked Karyn, needing to change the subject.

It took her a few seconds to shift gears. “Um, I had a lot of fun with your mom. Your dad’s going to be very surprised at a couple of her purchases.” She wiggled her eyebrows.

He winced. “Too much information, Hollywood.”

She took great delight in his discomfort. “Think red and cut down to here—” She dragged her fingers down her chest to a spot between her breasts.

“I’m going to superimpose an image of you wearing something like that. No way I want to picture my mother.” He moved to sit next to her on the couch. “Do you own something similar?”

“Not that I brought with me.”

His pulse thudded. “Red?”

She nodded.

“See-through?”

“In places.” Her smile was mysterious.

“When’s the last time you wore it?”

She jabbed his arm. “Which is a sneaky way of asking me about my sexual past. If we reach that point in our relationship, I’ll volunteer the info, as I would expect you to also.” She laid her hands on his chest. “I believe the agreement we have for now is to make out a lot.”

He took that as an invitation, drawing her over him to straddle his lap.

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