For His Little Girl by Lucy Gordon

Author:Lucy Gordon [Gordon, Lucy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Family Life, Romance, Contemporary
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-10-14T22:00:00+00:00

He drew her away from Josie's door, and into the big room. "I'm thinking about a phone call I've got to make. My folks always watch the show, and if Josie's going to appear the day after tomorrow—" He floundered into silence, the picture of guilt.

A monstrous suspicion grew in Pippa. "Luke, does your family know you have a daughter?''

He shook his head. "Don't get mad at me. If I'd told Mom everything years ago, she'd have come down on me like a duck on a June bug."

"That's nothing to what she's going to do now."

"I know, I know. Look, I wish I'd done it but—"

"But you did what was easiest, as always."

"Lord, but you sound like her!"

"I'm a mother, too. It comes with the territory."

"Okay, so I've got to pick up the phone and explain before she sees the show."

"Phone, nothing. You get over there and tell her to her face."

He visibly paled. "You're crazy. You don't know my mom."

"Are you a man or a mouse?''

"A mouse! Definitely a mouse!"

"Do it!"

"Okay, okay!"

"Now!"

"Yes, ma'am!"

He vanished, and a few minutes later Pippa heard the car being driven away. She wandered out onto the balcony and sat watching the sea. She knew a little about Luke's family. In England he'd shown her photographs of his parents, his younger brother, Zak, seventeen in those days, and his sister, Becky, fourteen. She'd seen the family resemblance that had lain not so much in features as the anarchic grins and the looks of healthy animals that lived as they pleased.

She reckoned it would take Luke at least a couple of hours, but after only half an hour she saw his Porsche returning. Obviously nobody had been at home, she thought, and he'd come straight back. But then another car followed his into the drive, and an endless river of people streamed out. Aghast, Pippa realized that Luke had brought the family with him, and not willingly, either, if his helpless shrug up to her on the balcony was anything to go by.

The next moment they were all pouring through the back door, and Pippa was emerging nervously to meet them. Luke's plump little mother surveyed her fiercely. "Are you Pippa?'' she demanded.

"I…yes—" The rest was lost in a suffocating embrace. Pippa was half a head taller, but somehow Luke's mother still managed to engulf her.

Then her husband, so tall that it was clear where Luke's height came from, and with a face made for laughter. He, too, hugged her, with a great roar of delight. Zak was the same as in his picture, a younger version of Luke, not quite so tall, a little heavier, but with the same smile and the same air of knowing the world was his for the taking. Becky had gray eyes full of humor, and a no-nonsense manner than Pippa took to at once.

They were allowed only a moment before his mother shunted them aside and hugged Pippa again, saying, "We should have met long ago, but better late than never.

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