When They Weren't Looking: Wardham Book #3 by York Zoe

Author:York, Zoe [York, Zoe]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ZoYo Press
Published: 2014-02-09T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER THIRTEEN

After sleeping on it, Evie decided she needed to let Liam’s wealth, or apparent wealth, come up on its own. He probably wouldn’t mind if she told him what happened at Carrie’s shop, but the more she thought about it, she had a hard time figuring out how it changed anything. Except the strong likelihood that Liam would tire of Wardham, and her. She pushed that fear away. She was doing all she could on that front. Protecting her heart, and maintaining a safe distance.

To that end, she was pleasant but decidedly un-flirty when he came over for dinner the next Wednesday, and gave him absolutely no wiggle room on staying after the boys went to bed. Connor was cool towards him anyway, and she had a fine line to walk there: disrespect wouldn’t be tolerated, but the boys were allowed to have an emotional response to news that had rocked their world.

She’d told them the night before, after they’d played soccer for a bit in the backyard. Connor immediately put two and two together, and shut down. Max said he hoped the baby was a boy, so they could go camping together at the Pinery.

“That’s something we do with Dad,” Connor muttered.

“So?” Max looked at her in total confusion and her heart cracked in two.

“This baby has a different daddy, sweetheart.” She swallowed hard against the tears rising fast.

“It’s not really my brother?”

“This baby will be your brother or sister, of course. And when you guys do stuff with your daddy, this baby will be with Liam.”

Connor crossed his arms and scowled. “Why does Liam get to come over for dinner once a week, but Dad doesn’t?”

Ugh. “Because you guys are growing up, and you don’t need to be with me all the time. When this baby is born, Liam won’t be able to take him or her for overnight visits until he or she is old enough be away from me.”

A thought which gutted her, but that was the bed she’d made.

“I like Liam,” Max said in a quiet voice, looking at his older brother for guidance.

Connor sighed. “I like him too. But he’s not my dad.”

Evie gasped. “No, honey, of course not. Liam’s just like Grandma or Megan’s dad—a grown-up you can trust. Nothing more, okay?”

“Is he your boyfriend?”

She took a deep breath and looked her first born in the eye. “My relationship with Liam is hard to describe, Connor, but I promise, if he was my boyfriend you’d be the first person I told. Right now, he’s just this baby’s father.”

It was probably too much, but she didn’t want to baby him, either. Max had tuned out already, turning his sweet potato chunks into turrets for salmon cannons, and when Connor tossed a pea bomb onto his brother’s plate, she accepted the conversation as over. For the moment.

So the next night, as she said goodnight to Liam at the door, she was relieved that the short visit had gone without incident.

“Listen,” he said, turning back to look at her from halfway down the front steps.

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