A Father In The Making by Carolyne Aarsen

Author:Carolyne Aarsen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises, Australia Pty Ltd
Published: 2014-04-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Are you going to read to us?” Josh asked, handing Mia the books he had chosen from the cardboard box beside their bed.

Mia blinked, pulling herself back to the present and her sons. She had just put the girls to bed, but as she had come into the boys’ room, her mind had done what it had all afternoon. Slipped back to that moment in the corral; that almost moment when she and Nate faced each other, questions hovering between them.

“Yes, of course I am,” she said with a quick smile, taking the books Josh and Nico gave her.

She settled herself on the bed between them and opened the book. But as her lips read the words, her traitorous mind wandered, once again, back to Nate.

All through the week, with each conversation they shared, each moment they spent together, she sensed a growing awareness.

She wasn’t sure if her heightened feelings for Nate were a result of feeling vulnerable after seeing Nico struggle to speak and losing her house and business, or if it was because something real was growing between her and Nate.

She just knew that each day she spent around him, her own feelings were shifting and changing.

Don’t be foolish. What would a single, good-looking man like him see in you?

Mia fought down the frustration Other Mother’s words created in her. She knew they were true, but oh, for that one moment when it seemed attraction trembled between her and Nate, she felt appealing.

“Mommy, you stopped reading,” Josh said, patting her hand.

“Sorry, buddy. My mind was wandering.”

Wandering to places you shouldn’t be going.

Mia sighed as she picked up the book again. Other Mother was annoying, but at times she was right. Mia had no room for romance in her life. Not with four children and a business she needed to get back off the ground.

She closed the book she had just finished reading as a sudden heaviness weighed down on her. Please Lord, help me through this, she prayed as she opened the second book. Help me to know that I am not doing this on my own. To draw on Your strength to focus on what I need to do. Not some foolish notion of romance and love.

But even as she said the prayer, regret plucked at her thoughts. If only...

She brushed that aside as she bent over and brushed a kiss over her sons’ heads. Then she picked up the book again. But just as she began reading she heard muffled voices coming from downstairs, raised in excitement. Then the sound of feet coming up the stairs and a hesitant knock on the door.

“Come in,” Mia said, puzzled as to what was happening.

The door creaked open and Nate put his head through the opening. “Do you want to see Nola’s foal? It was just born.”

He addressed them all, but his eyes held hers.

“Yippee,” Josh called out, scrambling off the bed. Then he grabbed Mia’s hand, pulling. “Can we go see? Please?”

Nico picked up on the excitement and was yanking on Mia’s other hand.

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