His Unexpected Baby Bombshell by Soraya Lane

Author:Soraya Lane
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

THERE WAS NO way to explain how she felt. Her entire body was aching, Lexie was jammed up hard against her, one arm slung over her face, and she was dead tired. Rebecca guessed that being caught out after years of hiding the truth wasn’t meant to be easy, but she was exhausted. All night she’d writhed around on the sheets, trying not to disturb Lexie but desperately craving sleep—anything to give her some relief from reliving the conversations she’d had with Ben. He probably felt the same, racked with guilt and anger for different reasons. And coming to terms with the fact that he had a daughter.

Rebecca listened out but could hear no noise in the house. Both men had always been early risers, but given that it was Sunday she expected they might be a little later out of bed. Besides, she was desperate for a coffee to kick-start the morning. Running into Ben was a risk she’d have to take, and at the end of the day she was going to have to face him sometime. They were going to have to sort things out one way or another. To think that the last time they’d been together had been like heaven on earth, and now they were barely talking.

Once she’d pried herself out from her daughter’s octopus-like grasp, she ran a quick brush through her hair, pulled it up into a ponytail and rummaged for a T-shirt. She looked down at her legs and left them bare—the T was superlong and she didn’t have anything on show.

A quick glance back at Lexie reassured her she wasn’t going to wake up while her mother was gone, and she slipped out the door, stopping in the hallway to listen out. She couldn’t hear a thing. She tiptoed down the stairs, cringing when she hit a squeaky board and hurrying the rest of the way down. She padded across the timber floor to the kitchen, smiled when she inhaled the faint smell of coffee wafting around her. Gus must have made a pot last night; unless Ben had gotten back up from bed, she guessed the old man had been up, unable to sleep. Rebecca deposited the remains into the bin and scooped fresh granules from the container, just like old times. She’d always tried to be up first when she’d stayed over, making coffee and gulping down her first cup before Ben was awake, buzzed about training the polo ponies with him. By sunrise they’d always been galloping down the beach—Geelong was famous for being horse country, and the proximity to the beach for training was one of the reasons it was so popular.

The smell of fresh coffee made her smile. She could almost taste the strong flavor of black, sugary syrup just from inhaling it. A complete contradiction to her usually obsessive compulsive healthy, organic choice in whatever she put into her body, but it was a habit she’d never been able to break. No tea, herbal concoction, nothing could make her feel like coffee did, particularly in the morning.

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