by Jackie Braun
“That would be quite a present.” He put his arms around her and dropped a kiss on her lips. “And from your reference to the baby as a she, I see that you’re hoping for a girl this time.”
“I love the men in my life, but with you, Devon and little Patrick, there are too many of you. It would be nice to have another female in the house.”
Devon had been coming to stay with Logan on alternating weekends and holidays since he and his mother moved back from Portland six months after the story of Logan’s paternity first made headlines. The arrangement wasn’t ideal. No child custody arrangement ever was. But they were making it work.
Of course, it had been rough on all of them in the beginning. Not surprisingly Devon had been angry, hurt and confused. He’d lashed out at everyone, with his father the prime target. Even when Logan had been devastated by his son’s animosity and pain, he’d remained patient and, with Mallory’s help, hopeful that eventually the boy would come around.
And he had.
It had taken Devon more than a year before he called Logan “Dad.” Mallory thought it was apropos that the boy did so the same day Patrick uttered his first Da-Da. Things had gotten easier after that, and a real relationship had begun to form. None of the awkwardness that had accompanied their get-togethers during those first months was present now. She wouldn’t say things were perfect, but they were close.
“What are you thinking?” Logan asked, pulling Mallory from her musings.
She meant it when she replied, “That I’m the luckiest woman in the world.”
ISBN: 978-1-4268-4473-7
CONFIDENTIAL: EXPECTING!
First North American Publication 2009.
Copyright © 2009 by Jackie Braun Fridline.
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