Pregnant In Prosperino by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

Lana remained in bed, waiting for a wave of nausea to pass. For the past three mornings she’d awakened with a rolling tummy and the knowledge that if she moved too quickly, she’d be sick.

The first morning she’d assumed she’d caught a touch of a flu bug that had been making the rounds in the community. Yesterday morning she’d decided that perhaps the barbecue they’d eaten the night before had been too rich. This morning her heart pounded with the unsteady rhythm of uncertainty.

Was it possible? Now that she thought about it, she hadn’t had a period since before their wedding. That knowledge, coupled with the early-morning queasiness made her wonder if perhaps she might be pregnant.

She touched her tummy, a curious mixture of excitement and just a tad of dread coursing through her. She was excited because it was possible she was finally going to achieve her dream of being a mother, but the dread came from knowing that if she was pregnant it would be the end of her marriage to Chance.

For six weeks she had been Chance’s wife. September had gone and October had brought slightly cooler nights and a deepening love in her for the man who was her temporary husband.

When she told him she was pregnant, their bargain would be fulfilled and their lives together would be over. There would be no more reason for them to kiss, to touch, to make love.

Chance had almost finished the work on the outside of the ranch and had told her the previous day that before the week was over he’d be fixing the odds and ends in the house to get it ready for sale.

It was coming to an end, and even though she knew the right thing to do was to tell Chance immediately that she thought he’d fulfilled his end of the deal, she hugged the knowledge of her condition tightly inside and decided to wait a few days.

She knew why she wanted to wait. She wasn’t ready to leave the marriage. She wasn’t ready to leave him. She was praying for a miracle. She was praying he’d fall in love with her, realize he couldn’t live without her. She was praying their marriage would become a real one, with a future of “until death do us part.”

And she knew she was being a total fool in hoping something might change between them. Aware that the nausea had passed somewhat, she decided to get out of bed.

Moments later as she stood beneath a warm shower, she once again touched her stomach, wondering if already Chance’s baby was inside her.

Chance’s baby. When she’d first contemplated getting pregnant, she’d never considered a father. In all of her thoughts, it was always her baby.

But now she couldn’t separate the man from the baby. It was and always would be Chance’s baby, Chance’s child. It was possible the baby would have his green eyes and square-shaped face. It was possible the baby would be a spitting image of Chance. And he wanted no part of it.

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