Sweet Laurel Falls by Raeanne Thayne

Author:Raeanne Thayne
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780373776702
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-09-24T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

“THANKS AGAIN FOR COMING with me, Mom. I didn’t think I needed moral support, but now that we’re here, I’m so glad you came.”

“So this is it?”

“I think so. Aspen Ridge. He’s in unit twelve.”

The town-house development was one of the more luxurious in Hope’s Crossing, all glass and cedar and river rock, set on an exquisitely landscaped sprawl of land that provided a beautiful view of the town and the mountains beyond.

How was he adjusting to living here? Was it difficult for him to look out that picture window toward Silver Strike Canyon, a vivid reminder of all the reasons he had left?

She pulled into a visitor parking lot near his town house. “Are you sure you don’t want me to wait in the car?”

“Do you mind coming in?” Sage asked.

Yes. She really didn’t want to be part of this conversation with Jack. Sage was here to tell her father about her pregnancy, an embarrassing discussion for any girl, not to mention one who hadn’t known her father existed a little over a month ago.

Maura preferred to stay right here instead of having to face him with the inevitable awkwardness. How could it be anything else? She hadn’t told Jack about her own pregnancy. How weird was it to find herself here with Sage while their daughter told him she was pregnant?

“I don’t mind,” she lied. “I’m here, aren’t I?”

“Thanks, Mom.” Sage smiled nervously and Maura reminded herself this wasn’t about her. It was about Sage and her fledgling relationship with Jack. “I thought about waiting until tomorrow at work, but after his text this morning while we were at breakfast it just seemed like a sign that I shouldn’t procrastinate something so important. I’ll feel better when it’s done, right?”

“Have I told you how proud I am for the way you’re facing all of this? I know telling Jack is going to be hard, just as it was rough when you told your grandmother last night, but you’re confronting it head-on and trying to make the best of it. It’s exactly the right way to handle this.”

“Thanks, Mom.”

Sage still seemed reluctant to open the door, and Maura made sure it was unlocked, then opened her own. Though the day was mild for early February, the outside air rushing in was still much colder than her climate-controlled vehicle interior, and she shivered a little but forced a smile anyway.

“You’ll do fine. What’s the worst that could happen?”

“He could shove me out the door and tell me he doesn’t want anything to do with me. I mean, come on. What father wants to find out his daughter is knocked up?”

Maura tried not to think very often about her own father, who had betrayed and abandoned his family to pursue his own dreams. When she had found she was pregnant, James McKnight had been so self-involved, so entranced with his new life as a fancy-free bachelor and award-winning archaeologist, that he hadn’t seemed to care about the lives of any of his children.

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