HER CALLAHAN FAMILY MAN by TINA LEONARD

Author:TINA LEONARD [LEONARD, TINA]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ROMANCE
Publisher: HARLEQUIN
Published: 2013-12-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

“My poor brother!” Ash rushed into the hospital thirty minutes later, hugging Jace when she found him in the waiting room. They wouldn’t allow him to go back to see his wife—not yet.

Apparently, Sawyer had told the doctor she wanted to be alone for now.

He couldn’t blame her—but he was dying inside.

“I’ll be all right.”

Ash’s eyes were wide. “It was bad juju to ask about her uncle.”

“Ash, it wasn’t bad juju. It’s just going to be a tough pregnancy for her, I suppose. It will all work out.” He hugged his sister tighter, trying to alleviate her worries.

“You don’t have a nursery set up.”

“This is true. If the babies come early, we’ll be in a bit of a hurry to get things done. But we’ll do it.” He wasn’t really worried about that, though. They had enough family around with cribs and baby paraphernalia they could borrow.

The thing was, he and Sawyer didn’t have a home for them and their family.

“Where will you live?” Ash asked.

“That’s a question for another day.” He swallowed hard, wondering how he could talk Sawyer into living with him.

Ash slumped in a chair. “I feel so guilty.”

“That’s not like you.” He sat next to her. “No negative vibes.”

“It’s not doing me much good,” she admitted. “I’m never having children.”

He laughed out loud. “Ash, you’ll have children. And no doubt they’ll be the toughest kids around. They’ll be born untamed, like their mother.”

“I think I’d make a better aunt than a mother. And besides, my children would be plenty tame. They’re not going to live like we did,” she said, her voice turning a bit dreamy. “If I had children, they’d have ballet lessons.”

“Even the boys?” he teased.

“If they want,” she said. “And my girls will have long, silky hair that I put lots of bows in.” She ran her fingers through her hair, which had grown from a short boy cut convenient for military life to a shoulder-length fall of silvery-blond strands. “And they would always have a store-bought birthday cake. Unless Fiona’s around to make it. I’m no good with baking.”

He listened to his sister’s dreams, letting her voice soothe him, keep his mind off what was happening with Sawyer. His gut wouldn’t unknot. He’d never been this scared in his life, not when he was deployed, not even when their parents had gone away.

That had been a terrible day. But just like Ash, he had dreams for his children.

He dreamed that his two babies would live in a house with their mother and father, who would never have to leave. They’d always be together, a family.

Those were his dreams.

* * *

“IT HAD NOTHING to do with you, Jace.” Sawyer hated the fearful look on her husband’s face. After the doctor had ordered extra medication for her, she’d allowed Jace to join her. The nurse had said he was like a caged panther in the waiting room, and Sawyer had taken pity on him. “I guess I have a small frame. There’s not much room.

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