Wife, Mother...Lover? by Hayes Sally Tyler

Author:Hayes, Sally Tyler
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-06-11T04:00:00+00:00

“Married?”

“It’s extreme, I know. But effective. My lawyer said this is the closest thing to a guarantee that she could give me, that in this case, she can’t imagine a judge taking two little boys away from their biological father and his wife.”

“I don’t know what to say,” she responded, dumbfounded. “You want me to be your wife? Until the custody issue is settled?”

“Probably a little longer than that. I wouldn’t want to get dragged right back into court when Rena found out this marriage wasn’t real. Maybe for a year? You’d have to be here in Chicago, and I don’t know what that would do to your career....”

“We don’t need to worry about my career right now.” She knew now that whatever satisfaction she’d gotten out of traipsing all over the world was long gone. She simply didn’t want to do it anymore. Instead, she was thinking about the boys, about how she would feel if they were hers and if Mitch truly was her husband.

She was thinking about stepping into her sister’s life and having everything her sister had ever had, everything her sister had lost.

It seemed a terrible thing to want, a selfish thing to do.

But she wanted the boys. She wanted this life. And Mitch? Well, they certainly weren’t talking about a real marriage here. But still...to live with him for an entire year. To wake up in the same house, to see him half-naked as he wrestled with the boys on his rumpled bed every morning. To share a late supper with him or sit quietly on the sunporch with him in the mornings if they ever managed to get up before the boys. To watch the boys grow and change and to see them happy and secure in the home she and Mitch could provide.

These were dangerous dreams for a woman to have, particularly one who’d seen firsthand how very much Mitch McCarthy had loved his wife.

To him, Kelly would always be his wife. Leanne would be the woman who had agreed to help him for the sake of the boys.

She could get her heart broken all over again, this time even worse than before. The first time, when she’d lost her family, she hadn’t known how vulnerable she was, how dangerous a position she was in.

This time she knew. This time it might well kill her to give up the boys when this was over. Still, for herself, she wasn’t sure she could resist. And for the boys, she didn’t see how she could refuse.

“I don’t know what to say, Mitch.”

“Say you’ll think about it.”

“Can you do this?” she asked, glancing back at her sister’s grave. It seemed so odd to her that they were talking about becoming man and wife here at her sister’s grave. “I know how much you loved Kelly,” she added. How much he loved her still.

“I would do anything to make sure the boys stay with me, and I know Kelly would understand that.”

“You’re right. She would. But...oh, God, what would everyone else think? They’d be shocked.

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