Her Best Friend's Baby by C. J. Carmichael

Author:C. J. Carmichael
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: pregnant heroine, series romance, baby, friends to lovers
Publisher: C.J. Carmichael
Published: 2014-06-19T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Drew was almost afraid to look at the letters he’d found in his mother’s top dresser drawer. Bracing himself, he picked up the packet. The moment he pulled on the elastic, it fell apart in his hands. Obviously Angie hadn’t read these letters for a very long time. Five letters in total. Turning them over, he saw the return address had been printed on the back flap.

The address he didn’t recognize. But he sure knew the name. Buddy Conroy.

Drew considered the possibilities. Angie could have saved the letters because they were cherished correspondence from an old friend.

Or, Buddy was the hometown sweetheart Angie had left behind to go to college.

His intuition favored the latter.

Only one way to tell. Carefully he lifted the flap on the first envelope and pulled out a folded sheet of legal-size paper.

The salutation said it all.

“My darling, stubborn Angie...”

The next few lines had Drew’s cheeks growing hot. He skimmed ahead, down to a paragraph where Buddy wrote, “I know you dream of seeing the world and that you’ll soon forget all about me. But what we had was special. I’ll always believe that. Still, I’m going to move on, the way you asked me too. Even though it won’t be easy.”

Drew refolded the pages and stuffed them back inside.

Buddy and his mother. Not a totally outlandish proposition. They’d been good friends. It was easy to see how they might once have been in love.

But Buddy wasn’t Drew’s father. As the letter made clear, his relationship with Drew’s mother had ended when Angie left to go to school in Toronto, several years before Drew’s conception. By the time his mother returned to Port Carling—plans to work abroad thwarted thanks to her pregnancy and her father’s stroke—Buddy had already married Patricia. Drew remembered Buddy teasing Angie about how she’d been too busy studying to come to the wedding.

But would Buddy have married Patricia if he’d known Angie would be returning?

Fate was so capricious. What would his life have been like if Angie had married Buddy?

The next letter in the stack was written much more impersonally, basically filling Angie in on news of their friends and happenings around town. At the end, Buddy casually threw in the fact that he’d started dating Patricia. Drew wondered how his mother had felt about that. Presumably she’d been too busy and happy with her new life to feel pangs of regret.

Drew went to the kitchen to find a new elastic to bind the letters together. Instead of returning them to the drawer, he stuck them in his briefcase, thinking maybe Buddy would like them back. Interesting that Angie had saved them all these years. And yet nothing from his father. Not even one postcard.

He had to admit, he was more disappointed than he’d expected to be.

Craving coffee, he headed to the kitchen to make coffee and ended up brewing decaf on the chance that Mallory would join him for a cup when she got home from the store, which should be any time now.

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