Long, Tall Texans Collection, Volume 8 (Leo\Jordan\Cash Grier\J.B.) by Diana Palmer

Author:Diana Palmer
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIX

TIPPY FELT HEARTSICK after Cash left. She missed him and she hadn’t really known him long enough to feel that deeply. But they’d skipped a few steps along the way. Her heartbeat accelerated every time she thought of his handsome face. She wondered how she was going to live without him in her life.

Rory went back to school after the first of the year and Tippy resumed work on the film. She began having some odd bouts of illness, and when she consulted her pocket calendar, the one she circled for her periods, she noticed that her long night with Cash had been at the worst possible time. More than that, her period was late. And it was never late, despite the very physical challenge of her job.

She worried about the stunts she was required to do. Didn’t they say that it was dangerous to do physical labor during the first trimester? Or was that just an old wive’s tale?

A month after Cash’s departure, she bought a home pregnancy kit and used it. The results were predictable, and vaguely terrifying. She couldn’t call Cash and destroy his life. She already felt protective of the tiny life inside her.

She was going to have a baby. Would it look like her, or like Cash? she wondered dreamily. Or would it look like some ancestor neither of them even remembered? She thought of diapers and formula and two-o’clock morning feedings with pure delight. Rory would love having a niece or nephew.

But she’d have to quit work. Not at once, but when she started showing. It was no big thing for a Hollywood star to have a child out of wedlock. But it was for Tippy. It would give her mother a weapon to use against her. Despite her own murky past, she could go to the tabloids and say that Tippy slept around and wasn’t a good guardian for her little brother.

There was another consideration. Cash didn’t want marriage. He was adamant about being a loner. He’d meant their encounter to be a one-night affair, despite his hunger for a child. It had probably been just as he said, something to bring the heat up between them. Men did say things in passion that they didn’t mean. Tippy had heard other women talk about it, even if she didn’t know from her own experience.

Her problem was what to do about it. She couldn’t hide it forever. At some point, she’d have to see a doctor. There were vitamins that a pregnant woman had to have. She’d have to eat properly as well—something else that would impact her career. She wasn’t allowed to gain more than five pounds during the filming of the movie, and that was written into her contract. She needed the money so badly, for Rory’s school tuition and her own rent and utilities and food bills. She couldn’t afford to lose her job.

But she wanted her child, just as much. She sat in the evenings after work and fantasized about it.

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