Involuntary Daddy by Lee Rachel

Author:Lee, Rachel [Lee, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-25T15:19:24+00:00

Angela awoke late the next morning. Far too late. Before she even opened her eyes, she knew her blood sugar was low. Irritation filled her. She threw back the blankets, pulled on her robe and stalked downstairs ready to bite someone’s head off.

Not that it was anyone’s fault. But she was so damn sick and tired of this! She hardly noticed Rafe as she stomped into the kitchen, yanked open the fridge and poured herself a glass of juice with a trembling hand.

Rafe didn’t say anything. He was sitting at the table, reading the morning paper, the remnants of his breakfast on a plate beside him. The baby sat in his carrier seat on the table, waving his arms and talking to no one in particular.

Realizing that she’d just burned up even more sugar with her nasty little mood didn’t make Angela any less irritated. She sat at the table, feeling the early weakness in her limbs, and tossed down the orange juice like an alcoholic after a long dry spell. Now her entire medical schedule for the day was screwed up and she would be struggling to keep everything in balance until she could get back on track.

“Bad morning?” Rafe asked mildly.

“I slept too late.”

“Most people don’t get upset about that.”

Her tone was acidic. “Most people aren’t supposed to take their insulin and eat at eight a.m.”

“Oh.”

“Yeah, oh.”

He rustled the pages of the paper, turning to the editorials. “So,” he asked in the same mild tone, “does getting low blood sugar make you crabby?”

She wanted to snarl at him. She settled for more acid. “Just slightly. But what makes me even crabbier is knowing my schedule is all out of whack again, and I’ve got to figure out some way to keep things in balance until I can straighten it out.”

He nodded. “So how do you do it?”

“Do what?”

“Adjust your schedule?”

“I change the proportions of fast-acting and slow-acting insulin.”

“Do you know how to do that?”

“Of course!”

“Then I guess you know how to take care of it.”

Now she really wanted to snarl at him. Couldn’t he see what a miserable way this was to live? Of course not. He didn’t have to deal with four shots a day, four blood tests, blood sugar that was out of control, not being able to sleep late, not being able to...

Her angry thoughts stuttered to a stop. Maybe the orange juice was hitting her system, or maybe she was just seeing herself clearly. Whatever it was, she decided she didn’t like herself very much right then.

“I’ll be fine,” she said, no longer wanting to eat him alive with a side order of hash browns.

“Of course you will. You’ve been dealing with this for nearly thirty years, right? It seems to me that you must be pretty good at handling it.” He smiled at her then.

The urge to kill him came back. How dare he smile at her like that, making her feel warm and beautiful and somehow special?

“Actually,” he continued, “I think you’re pretty remarkable.

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