The Rock Star's Secret Baby by Blair Babylon

Author:Blair Babylon [Babylon, Blair]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Malachite Publishing LLC
Published: 2016-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Strategy Session

Monday arrived.

Cadell paced.

Emily stayed upstairs with a nanny until it was time to go. He had taken Em to the park that morning to play on the swings for a little while, but she had gotten tired quickly, even more quickly than normal, it seemed.

It was probably nothing. Cadell obsessed over inconsequential changes, worrying himself into crazy circles until he had to play poker or else he might get into the car and drive somewhere.

Cadell practiced scales while waiting for the clock to tell him that he should drive over to Andy’s parents’ house. His shoulder was beginning to shiver, a premonition of the cramping that turned to fiery nerve pain. Only an hour or two of practice caused problems these days, probably the result of that whirlwind, brutal European tour last month.

Even though his shoulder was beginning to knife him, he still played his scales.

Scales up. Scales down. Two and three octaves. Major and minor and flatted sevenths. Two scales and an arpeggio. The guitar equivalent of fingered octaves and double stops. Everything he could think of.

The clock had only moved an hour.

And he had three more hours until he should collect Em and leave.

The nanny came down and told him that Emily was napping.

Good.

Maybe she wouldn’t be cranky during the dinner with Andy’s parents that night. The last thing that he needed while he was trying to make a good impression was a spoiled two-year-old screaming that she wanted vanilla pudding for supper.

Maybe he should take a couple of vanilla pudding cups with them, just in case. It wasn’t a bad idea to throw one in a lunch box with some blue ice and leave it in the car.

They would think that he spoiled her too much, giving her vanilla pudding for supper just because she wanted it. They would think that he was permissive and liberal, and he probably was. That would leave a rotten first impression.

Not that he knew how to make a good impression. He would probably fuck it up somehow.

Cadell paced. He hunted down obscure songs on his phone and played them along with the MP3.

Finally, when he was scrolling through his contact list for no reason whatsoever, the name Uday Chowdhury rolled into view and stopped in the middle.

Uday had been one of the Indian guys who had gotten married while at Juilliard, and Cadell had attended the three-day affair.

Cadell was, at heart, a recluse and an introvert, but he knew when he needed advice. He tapped the screen and told Uday everything he could think of, starting with, “So, there’s this woman that I met, an Indian chick—”

“So this is why the big rock star calls me after a year of radio silence,” Uday said, his soft Southern drawl dripping with diphthongs, why-uh, “because you need advice,” ad-vi-ice, “about Indian girls. Here’s my advice: stay away from them unless you want to gain twenty pounds.”

“I like her.”

“Worse.”

“I mean, I like her a lot.”

“Aren’t you banging tons of chicks on tour? Go ahead, tell me, please.

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