It Takes a Baby (Superromance)

Author:Holmes, Dee [Holmes, Dee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2011-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

WHEN KATHLEEN STEPPED out of the bedroom, Booth was right behind her, his words still resounding in her mind.

Marry him? Sure. The perfect solution when caught having sex. It was ridiculous, impossible and totally out of the question. And even if they’d been engaged, even if his mother had been her new best friend, she would never have wanted to be caught in such a humiliating position. Of course, he hadn’t been serious, anyway.

“Sounds like Mom’s still in with Lisa,” Booth said.

Kathleen stuffed her balled hands into her shorts pockets. “I’ll wait here.”

Fleeing held great appeal but would have changed nothing. Besides, she and Booth were adults. This might be unpleasant, but Kathleen’s mother had taught her years ago that discomfort often prepared the way for insight and wisdom. How that applied here, she wasn’t sure, but she certainly felt the discomfort.

Still, when she compared this problem to her other difficulties, it paled. She and Booth had been caught in a private act, not an illegal one, she reminded herself. Mortification was perfectly normal. And the more Kathleen thought about it, the more she realized that this had to be even worse for Booth’s mother.

Kathleen recalled being a let-me-die-on-the-spot intruder when she was about eight years old. She’d walked into the barn and caught her brother Clarke and another boy with their clothes mussed and their arms around each other. She’d been confused and embarrassed. Clarke had yelled at her, but later had begged her not to tell. As if she would. She knew her father would have beaten Clarke badly, and she would have felt responsible for tattling.

Kathleen glanced up and saw Janet Rawlings enter the living room, carrying Lisa. Booth’s mother was tall and slender with a smooth, unlined face that would have been patrician if not for a slight overbite. She wore a green seersucker suit with a short-sleeved jacket, and Lisa was fascinated by her chunky white necklace. Booth stepped around his mother to stand with Kathleen.

“I’ll handle this, babe,” he whispered. “It was my fault.”

“I could have said no and left the room.” Kathleen wasn’t about to be a wuss about this. She took a deep breath and seized the initiative before Booth could protest. Extending her hand to Booth’s mother, she said, “I’m Kathleen Yardley. You have a beautiful granddaughter, Mrs. Rawlings, and a persuasive son, because I really wanted to hide in the bedroom.”

Janet Rawlings looked immensely relieved that Kathleen had brought the subject into the open. “I wanted to run out of the apartment and back to my car. Please forgive me for causing what has to be one of the most horrifying moments in our lives.”

“Worse than that time I drove the car into the lake?” Booth asked, smoothly diverting their attention. He took Lisa, who was trying to chew her grandmother’s beads, and put her onto the floor. The baby headed straight for the kitchen. In a few seconds she was banging the pan lids.

Janet grimaced at Booth. “Raising you was one horrifying moment after another.

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