Jake's Love (Courthouse Connections, #7) by Ann Jacobs

Author:Ann Jacobs
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: contemporary romance, medical romance, romance with children, Jewish characters, short story
Publisher: Ann Jacobs
Published: 2016-01-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Teri Miller, Meghan’s mother, was a bundle of energy, taller than Meghan and impeccably dressed in something soft, clingy, and mixed shades of brown and beige. Her dark hair was highlighted and arranged as nicely as any sheitel he’d ever seen. From the way she acted, Jake gathered that Teri was thrilled that Meghan had finally found a daddy for her precious granddaughter.

“I like you,” she told him, her manner forthright. “Michael and I will have to collaborate on this, because I want you two to have a gorgeous wedding—” Her lips curled in a satisfied grin. “—Even more extravagant than Meri Stone had for Gracie last month.”

“Mom, Gracie Stone is no more than twenty-one or so. And she had never been married before. I think something simpler, maybe outdoors, would suit us better.”

“Simpler? Not for my youngest. You broke my heart when you eloped the first time, not that you could have had a temple wedding anyhow, seeing that he wasn’t Jewish.”

Guilt washed over Jake as he listened to Meghan and her mother arguing about how elaborate a ceremony they’d be having. “Ms. Miller, I agree with Meghan. We’d both like something simple, with just our families and a few close friends.”

He envisioned not the showy, costly wedding Meghan’s mom apparently yearned to engineer, but the battle he imagined taking place at the wedding between his very traditionally minded widowed mama and Teri Miller, who Mama would likely refer to as a wannabe Shiksa. Probably to her face if he knew Mama as well as he thought he did. If anything, his mother would benefit from a large dose of tact.

Jake smiled, then casually dropped his bomb. “Besides, we probably won’t be able to marry in a temple, either.”

“Why not?” Teri gave him the once-over, as though she thought she might have missed some obvious flaw she should have seen.

“I’m not certain, but I’d rather pass on all the bells and whistles and do this simply if it’s what Meghan wants.” Let Teri think he had some flaw that would make him unsuitable in a rabbi’s eyes. He’d save the necessary religious implications to discuss on Tuesday when he formally asked Meghan’s father for her hand in marriage.

His head was beginning to ache from Teri’s nonstop talk of bridal gowns, dance bands and champagne fountains, and he was looking for an escape when Joci bounded into her nana’s living room on the heels of Patches. “Dr. Jake,” she yelled as she wrapped her arms around his knees. “Are you really going to marry Mommy?”

“Yes, sweetie.” He’d have preferred that he and Meghan sit down with Joci and tell her themselves, but apparently Nana Teri had spilled the beans. “Then you’ll be my little girl, too. Will you like that?”

“Oh, yes. I told Mommy she ought to marry you. I’m glad she listened. Patches,” she called out, and when the puppy barked, Joci bounded off to find him. Jake wished he could follow her.

Instead he sat there sipping a

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