Brooding Rebel to Baby Daddy by Ally Blake

Author:Ally Blake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-04-06T11:09:59+00:00

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With the roof down, the wind was bracing. But Sable barely noticed for her mind was all a spin as Rafe drove out of town, up into the hills, round and around, till she lost her sense of direction.

Rafe, elbow resting on the windowsill, a finger sliding back and forth over the seam of his lips, his other hand relaxed on the wheel, had a faraway look. Serious.

Her heart clutched as a wave of tenderness, of heat, swept over her. Followed by a swift chill as the word Yes swam through her head like a fever dream.

For a second there she’d thought he’d meant... But no. Maybe? She’d thought her arguments were very convincing, so why not?

Sable risked another glance. What was he thinking about? His grocery list? Maybe he was still mulling over how he could make sure the people of Radiance treated her right.

For he was a protector at heart. Always had been. Protecting Janie from the mess she’d been born into. Protecting the memory of his mother, a woman she’d never heard him speak ill of, even while the pain of her departure was written over every line in his face. Even protecting his father, mostly from himself.

He’d kissed her, it seemed, to protect her too.

But it hadn’t felt that way. It had felt as if a storm that had been brewing for days had finally broken. It had felt like coming home.

And this time, no single part of her leapt up and said, Stop! We can’t! Too complicated!

Because for a few beautiful moments it had been such pure relief to slip back to a much simpler time. When she was an anonymous girl who loved nothing more than taking photos of things that other people neglected, and falling for the brooding boy next door.

Sable coughed on her thoughts. Then coughed some more.

Rafe shot her a look. “You okay?”

She gave him a thumbs up, even though she wasn’t sure that was entirely true.

She’d only been caught up in a memory of feeling, not actually feeling those feelings, right? For surely the worst time to realise you were falling in...something with someone, was not the time to have a baby with them. How twisty was that?

Were her crumbling defences inevitable, or was she self-sabotaging? Was this whole thing a prime example of her putting herself in a “situation doomed to fail”, as her ex’s enabling therapist had so kindly put it?

“I’m just going to put the car away,” Rafe said, slowing as the edge of his property appeared. They’d come around the back way, not past her mother’s house.

“Sure,” Sable squeaked, then cleared her throat, not sure where “away” might be.

They trundled down his driveway, though he didn’t stop at the Airstream, instead hooking a left, past a large copse of elms, and liquid ambers in all their autumn glory, which was when she realised where they were heading.

In the direction of the old barn.

A thrill of anticipation—and trepidation—shot down her spine. If she was worried

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