A Mother's Day: Nobody's Child\Baby on the Way\A Daddy for Her Daughters

Author:Emilie Richards
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2002-02-14T16:00:00+00:00

He’d been in her driveway the day before, but hadn’t really taken account of the place until now. She lived in a large two story building, the kind that housed a family with multiple children, all of whom had their own rooms. Pulling up the hand brake, he scrutinized the place she’d resided in for over five years. Ever since she’d gotten married.

“You live here?”

She thought it a strange question, seeing as he’d parked her car for her yesterday. “Yes.”

He looked at her. “Alone?”

She had, she thought, until now. “Why? Don’t you like it?”

She loved the house, loved every corner of it. There were special memories tucked away in every room and it bore her mark from top to bottom. Knowing that all his taste was in his mouth, Johnny had given her free rein to decorate as she chose.

He shrugged, knowing he’d get lost in a place like that. Having sold the house he and Lorna had bought together, he lived his days out in a bare apartment. It held a refrigerator, a table, a bed and a bureau, more than enough for him.

“Just seems like a huge house for one person, that’s all.”

“One and a half now,” she corrected, glancing toward the back seat where her son dozed.

It was time to get him inside. Maddy couldn’t wait to see him sleeping in the frilly bassinet her mother had insisted on buying for her. She began to open the passenger door, but J.T. reached over and placed his hand over hers to stop her.

“Wait a second,” he ordered. She looked at him quizzically. “Don’t just go jumping out of the car. You’re still weak.”

He didn’t strike her as the type to play Sir Galahad. “You don’t know me very well, do you?”

The smile she gave him told him that she intended on correcting that.

She could intend whatever she wanted, he thought, that didn’t change anything. After he brought her inside her home, his responsibility, even by the wildest stretch of interpretation, was at an end. He’d go his way and she’d go hers. End of story.

“No, but I don’t believe in taking chances. Sit.” It was a sternly worded command, not a request. Getting out of the vehicle, he rounded the hood and came up to her side. “Okay, now you can get out.”

Her grin grew wider. “Yes, sir.”

But the grin faded just a little as she gained her feet and the brisk, cool world around her shifted just a little out of kilter. Stunned, Maddy automatically grabbed his shoulder. She felt his arm close around her, pulling her to him as he steadied her.

A warmth spread through her that had less to do with her near faint than with the man who had prevented it. Taking a breath, she looked up into his face. “I guess you were right.”

His expression was stoic. “I tend to be.”

She smiled, making no move to regain her footing without him. “I’ll try to remember that.”

He shouldn’t be holding her like this, no matter what the reason.

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