Project: Runaway Bride by Heidi Betts

Author:Heidi Betts
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-22T23:00:00+00:00

Nine

Reid sat in his darkened study, a glass of scotch on the desk in front of him, the open bottle right next to it. He threw back the two fingers of amber liquid, then poured himself another, his gaze never leaving the printed picture in his hand.

If he didn’t know what he was looking at, he would have thought it was some peculiar three-dimensional puzzle picture of the Loch Ness Monster or a crater on the moon.

But he did know what he was looking at. The peanut, as the doctor had called it. His son or daughter.

It was too soon to tell which, but even if it hadn’t been, Juliet had begged the doctor not to reveal the baby’s gender. She wanted it to be a surprise, and Reid was fine with that. He’d had more than enough surprises for one week, thank you very much.

He was going to be a father. Again. And once again it was with a woman who didn’t necessarily intend to let him be part of his child’s life.

He’d never thought his relationship with Valerie was complicated, and look how that had turned out.

On the other hand, Juliet was complicated with a capital C. He’d known that the minute she’d walked into his office at McCormack Investigations asking him to find her sister.

Now, on top of everything else, she was pregnant. He wasn’t sure there was a word in the dictionary for how complicated that made this.

Taking another belt of scotch, he slid open the center drawer of the desk and laid the sonogram picture safely inside. Then, pushing to his feet, he left the study and slowly climbed the stairs to the second floor.

Juliet’s bedroom door was closed, just as it had been since soon after they arrived home.

After the appointment, he’d driven back to the brownstone without a word being spoken between them. She’d fixed herself a bite to eat for lunch and offered to make him something, too, but he’d declined. He definitely hadn’t been in the mood for food.

He hadn’t been in the mood to talk, either, though she’d asked if he wanted to. He gave her credit for that: for being willing to open up and discuss their situation rather than zipping her lips and cutting him out of anything related to the pregnancy.

He just hoped she was still feeling chatty, because now he was ready to talk. And he intended to make her listen.

* * *

Juliet was sitting cross-legged on her bed, sketch pad on her lap. She’d begun with the intention of doing a bit more work on the new handbag sketches she’d started up at the lake house, but instead all of her doodles seemed to turn into baby bonnets and booties.

With a huff, she scribbled over her latest version of the bassinet she could already picture in the corner of her room back at the loft. As supportive as she knew her sisters would be about having a little niece or nephew to spoil rotten, she was pretty sure they wouldn’t be gung ho about adding a line of infant wear to Zaccaro Fashions.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.