Harlequin Desire August 2016, Box Set 1 of 2 by Janice Maynard

Author:Janice Maynard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488009204
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2016-02-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

Brodie placed her heels on the edge of the Adirondack chair and rested her chin on her knees, the expansive view of the Florencia Bay blurry from the tears she refused to let fall. She was used to being alone. She’d made a point of it. But for the first time in nearly a decade she felt like she could do with some help. Just a shoulder to lean on, someone to tell her she could do this, that she was strong enough, brave enough.

She wanted a pair of arms to hold her, someone else’s strength to lift her, a little encouragement. This was the downside of being alone, Brodie realized. When you’d consistently kept yourself apart there was no one you could call on. She’d made this bed and now she had to sleep in it.

Alone.

Well, this sucked. Brodie shoved the heels of her hands into her eye sockets and pushed, hoping the pressure would stop the burning in her eyes. That she wanted to cry was utter madness. She was pregnant, not dying. She was financially able to raise this child and give it everything it needed—she had to stop calling it an it!—and this situation didn’t warrant tears. If memories didn’t make her cry, then her pregnancy had no right to. She was stronger than that.

Brodie straightened her shoulders. So she was going to be a single mother, big deal. Millions of women all over the world did it on a daily basis, a lot of them with fewer resources than she had. Stop being a wuss and get on with it. Rework those plans; write a list. Do something instead of just moping!

She needed to see a doctor and she needed to contact her lawyer. She needed to stop thinking about stupid Kade Webb and the fact he’d accused her of scamming him.

The jerk! Oh, she so wasn’t going to think about him again. From this moment on he was her baby’s sperm donor and nothing else.

She simply wasn’t going to think about him again.

“Brodie.”

Brodie looked up at the clear blue sky and shook her head. “Seriously?”

No one, not God, the universe or that bitch karma, answered her. Brodie reluctantly turned her head and watched Kade walk across the patio toward the other Adirondack chair. Without saying a word, he sat down, rested his forearms on his thighs and dropped his hands between his knees. Simon sat near the edge of the stairs and barked at a seagull flying over his head.

Kade had come straight from the beach, Brodie realized. Sand clung to his feet, which were shoved into expensive flips-flops, and clung to the hair on his bare calves. He had nice feet. Big feet. He was a big guy, everywhere.

And it was his everywhere that had put her into this situation. She scowled. “What now, Kade?”

Kade turned and looked at her. “I don’t want to fight.”

“That’s fine.” Brodie dropped her legs and pointed to the stairs. “So just leave.”

“That’s not happening, either.

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