The Billionaire's Baby SOS by Meier Susan

Author:Meier, Susan [Meier, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-05-05T21:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

WITH his new questions about Claire confusing him, Matt spent Wednesday trying to avoid her. But how could he when caring for Bella together put them in the same room all the time? When she finally went to bed, he got a few minutes of peace and quiet, but when he entered his bedroom, he could smell her. Her scent wasn’t just in the bathroom anymore. No. It was everywhere.

Thursday morning, Bella seemed to have learned that spitting out her food could be entertaining, so Matt found himself stationed by the high chair, wiping spit food off the tray, putting himself directly in line with Claire’s scent.

After breakfast, they rolled a ball back and forth for an hour, keeping Claire’s scent around him and emphasizing the fact that they didn’t talk.

They couldn’t. Every time they talked, they got to know each other. And when he got to know her, he liked her. But when they didn’t talk, he thought about her. Wondered how a little girl got along without a mom when she had a distant dad. Wondered why she wasn’t bitter, as he was about his family. Wondered how she’d stayed so sweet.

Though he needed to learn everything he could while he had Claire with him, by Thursday afternoon he knew there had to be a better way to handle this. They had to find something to do while they cared for the baby. Something that would occupy their minds enough that he could stop thinking.

He wanted twenty minutes of not thinking. Not about his family, not about Bella and especially not his unwanted attraction to Claire.

He pushed himself away from the desk. “You know what? I think we should spend the rest of the afternoon cooking dinner.”

Claire glanced over. “Cooking dinner?”

“Yeah. I’m getting a little tired of takeout. But we also have to spend time with the baby. So I thought we could put her in the high chair and chitchat with her as we put a roast in the oven.”

She walked the baby over to him. “That’s a great idea. We’ll get dinner, but you’ll also learn how to multitask with a baby.”

“How is that different from regular multitasking?”

“No matter what you’re doing, if Bella needs tending to, she becomes the priority. This is a great way to start seeing that.”

Matt shook his head, unable to stop the laugh that escaped. “Seriously? You think I’m that stupid?”

He expected her to have some kind of funny comeback. Instead, she froze. “You laughed.”

“What you said was either insulting or funny. I chose funny.”

“Okay...” She bit her lip. “It’s just that—” She stopped again.

“What?”

“When we met you never laughed. You smiled a bit, but sort of craftily like you were trying to figure me out. Then you started ‘kind of’ laughing. But not really laughing, more like chuckling. You just really laughed. A genuine laugh. As if you’re happy.”

He headed for the door. “I’m not happy.” He stopped, raked his fingers through his hair, as that damned confusion overwhelmed him again.

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