Just Getting Started by Lacey Black & Kaylee Ryan

Author:Lacey Black & Kaylee Ryan
Language: eng
Format: epub

“A baby shows up on your doorstep, and you don’t think that warrants a call?”

I knew I needed to call Gwen, but just haven’t had time. Nor really knew what to say. Now, there’s no denying the conversation and the important questions I’m sure she’s going to hurl at me like grenades.

Gwen pushes past me at the door, my happy niece, Sophia, perched on her hip. “Come on in,” I mutter, shutting the front door behind her.

My sister puts my niece down in the middle of the living room with a teether and turns my way. “Spill. And don’t leave anything out.”

“Do you want some coffee? It was a long night,” I mumble, noticing it’s barely after eight. Chase left for work at seven after a little argument. He wanted to cancel his day again, but I wouldn’t let him. His income relies on going to the gym and seeing his clients. My work is a little more flexible right now, and I have the ability to log in to the server with Chase’s computer and still get work done. He grumbled a little, hating that the responsibility of taking care of Milo was falling on me, but I was adamant. He was needed there today, and I’m needed here.

“No, I’ve already had three cups,” my sister says, following me to the doorway of the kitchen so she can keep an eye on her daughter in the living room.

I refill my cup, adding way too much sugar and creamer to be deemed necessary, and prop my hip against the counter. “The other night, there was a knock on the door and a baby on the welcome mat. A note accompanying the infant said it was Chase’s.”

Gwen just stares, blinking, as she absorbs the news. “Okay, I got that from my husband, but why now? Why not tell him before?”

Shrugging, I take another sip of sweet coffee. “No clue. There wasn’t much info in the letter, except that she met Chase and Colton in St. Louis at a bar. Apparently, there was naked time in his hotel room, and the result was Milo.”

“Milo?” she asks, smiling. “I love that name.”

I swallow over the lump in my throat. “Me too. Anyway, the woman said she didn’t want to be a mother and was hoping Chase would take him.”

“What kind of woman just drops her baby off at a stranger’s house and leaves?” my sister asks, almost absently.

“I’ve been asking myself the same question. I mean, it’s crazy, but not unheard of. At least she realized she wasn’t fit to be a mother now instead of making his life miserable, right?”

Gwen shrugs. “I guess.” She glances in the living room and smiles. “Come here.”

When I meet my sister at the doorway, Sophia is on her back, swinging her leg and trying to roll over. Gwen grabs her phone and starts to record the moment, most likely going to send it to her husband.

“This is new,” I whisper, a proud auntie smile on my own face as I grab my cell and snatch a few seconds worth of video.

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