Finding The One (Meadowview Heroes 1; The Meadowview Series 5) by Rochelle French

Author:Rochelle French [French, Rochelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Contemporary, Romance, Fiction, Forever Love, Adult, Bachelor, Single Woman, Sensual, Hearts Desire, Series, Meadowview Heroes, Art Photographer, Small Town, Artistic Career, One-Night Stand, Former Model, Mistaken Identity, Conflict, Lucrative Contract, Lost Relationship, Sacrifice, Jeopardize
ISBN: 9781625176790
Publisher: Bloomfield Publishing; 2 edition
Published: 2015-05-16T04:00:00+00:00

As they drove through the dark, streetlights sent flashes of white to crisscross Mac’s face. Trudy fiddled with the knobs on the car door. Beside her, Mac thumbed the gear shift, sending his Porsche Cayman into fourth as he entered Highway 99. She rolled her head against the leather seat and stared out the window. Mac had passed the test, most definitely.

She’d known he was good with kids, but had no idea how good. She always stumbled when taking care of Milla’s brood, but not Mac. Nope, he’d been a success from the moment he’d stopped Betsy from wailing. And in doing so, had most likely had prevented the preschooler from ever cutting a doll’s hair again.

He’d charmed the socks off her twin nieces Lana and Laura, reading the two-year-olds Hop on Pop five times and then letting them jump all over him. When he saw how uncomfortable she was holding the baby, he’d held Gabbie himself and hadn’t made a single comment about the lack of mothering instincts Trudy seemed to possess. And when Gabbie wouldn’t go to sleep, he’d taking Milla’s mini-van out of the garage and driving around the block fifteen times until the baby fell asleep.

A man like that deserved his own family. A man like that should have his own children. A man like that shouldn’t be with someone missing a uterus and ovaries and—

“So Trudy is short for Gertrude, but what’s Milla short for?” Mac’s voice interrupted her thoughts.

She toyed with her hair, then gathered the heavy weight up and swept it over a shoulder as she mentally swept away thoughts of her infertility. No sense in alienating the man now. That was a conversation they could have another time, after she worked herself up to do the whole “Do you want babies” conversation. If things even got that far—Mac was a playboy, used to dating a multitude of women. Not the kind of guy who had marriage on his mind, fortunately for her.

After clearing her throat, she said, “Um, Camilla.”

“But you both go by nicknames?”

She swallowed. “Our mom gave us old family names. She said they were very special and she’d even make up songs with our names in them. But then she royally screwed up her life and Milla and I were dumped into foster care. She died after that.”

“Oh” Mac’s voice had gone quiet. “I didn’t know. I’m sorry.”

Trudy shrugged. “It’s okay.”

“Were Trudy and Milla the nicknames your mom gave you?”

“No,” she said flatly. “When we were put into our first foster home, we didn’t want Foster Mom Number One to call us by the names our mother called us by, so we told her to call us Trudy and Milla.”

“Do you miss your mom?”

She sat for a while, thinking about the question. “No,” she said, slowly, “not really. I don’t even remember her much. But I miss the idea of her. The idea of family.”

Mac changed lanes, getting ready to merge from the 99 to Highway 50. “Your sister looks like she’s embraced the whole concept of family rather willingly.

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