Having Gabriel's Baby. Kristin Morgan

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СКАЧАТЬ Goodbye.”

      “Now wait a minute, cher. I think I know who you are.”

      “I doubt that,” Joelle replied.

      “Well, let me see, now…I bet you, you’re that woman he met on vacation.”

      Joelle’s grip on the receiver tightened. “He told you about me?” she asked, in truth, awed down to her toes that Gabriel would even do such a thing.

      His housekeeper smirked. “Well, that ain’t exactly how it was. See, I saw them pictures he took of you, and he said that you were his tour partner—or somethin’ like that. Anyways, I ain’t never seen Gabe take so many pictures of anyone.”

      Joelle frowned to herself. Funny, but she didn’t recall Gabriel taking any snapshots of her in Acapulco. Oh—well, yeah, maybe one or two that she’d noticed. Mostly she’d seen him taking pictures of the scenery. Sometimes that scenery may have been located behind her. Therefore, if by chance she ended up in any of those snapshots, then it was purely by accident.

      “Oh—look—don’t hang up,” the housekeeper said. “I think I hear Gabe comin’ in now.” A fraction of a moment later and much too soon for Joelle to have stopped her, Joelle heard when the older woman laid the receiver down and said, “It’s for you, Gabe.”

      Joelle’s insides froze.

      “Who is it?” he asked.

      “That woman?”

      “What woman?” Joelle heard Gabriel ask.

      “The one in the pictures.”

      “Pictures?”

      “The ones from your vacation.”

      “Oh—those pictures.” There was a long pause and then finally Gabriel said, “I’ll take it in my study.”

      Joelle’s heart began to pound once again.

      She certainly had plenty of time to hang up and even thought of doing so. But then she realized it would only make her look like an even bigger fool, so she took a couple of deep breaths and waited anxiously for him to answer. Finally she heard him say, “Hello.”

      Air rushed from her lungs. “Gabriel?”

      There was a momentary pause. “Yes.”

      “This is Joelle. Joelle Ames…” Actually there was always the chance that he wouldn’t remember her. Or, at least, her name. The sudden thought that he might not caused something in her to shrivel up like plastic wrapping in a hot oven.

      “Hello, Joelle,” he said, his tone of voice even and unemotional. “I was beginning to wonder if I was ever going to hear from you, again.”

      She tried swallowing down the lump in her throat.

      “Look, maybe my calling you like this wasn’t such a good idea, after all,” Joelle replied. “I probably should’ve let my attorney do this.”

      “But you called instead,” he said.

      “Well-yes-but-”

      “But, what?”

      “Nothing,” Joelle replied, suddenly realizing that she was getting paranoid for nothing. Sure, if she were to tell him about the baby, he would probably freak out. But she wasn’t going to do that. She’d just called to talk to him…to hear his voice one more time. She didn’t plan to ever call him, again.

      “Look,” he drawled, “I’ve been meaning to phone you. In fact, I was wondering if your attorney had turned up anything about—well, you know—about that night.”

      Joelle took a deep, steadying breath. “Well, actually, that’s why I called.” Liar. “I wanted to let you know that he hasn’t been able to find anything, no documentation that we got married. No nothing. Lately he’s been saying that we might not ever know what really happened that night.”

      “I see,” Gabriel replied, hesitantly. “In that case, what do you suggest we do?”

      “I don’t know,” she said. “What do you think?”

      “Well, it’s been well over a month now. If there is still no documentation to be found, I don’t see the point in either of us pursuing the matter. It looks to me like we obviously backed out of what we had planned when we left the cantina.”

       Yeah, they’d just ended up in bed together, instead. And she had the proof of what they’d done growing inside of her.

      “I think you’re probably right. I sure hope so,” Joelle said, coolly. But, in spite of her indifferent answer, her stomach sank to the floor.

      “I hope so, too,” he replied. “Look, I think it’s time we just consider the whole incident dropped.”

      “Sounds good to me,” Joelle said, forcing herself to sound as elated as he. “Besides, if a problem should result, I’ll have my attorney take care of it right away.”

      For a long moment, Gabriel was silent. Finally, he cleared his throat. “Listen, now that I’ve had a moment to think about it, just to put both of our minds at ease, maybe we should sign some kind of an agreement, naming each other blameless for that night.”

      Joelle stiffened. It wasn’t that she wanted anything from him, because she didn’t. It was the fact that he was suddenly so suspicious of her. As if he thought that she had some underlying motive in all of this. In truth, she could’ve been thinking the very same thing of him, but she wasn’t. “Look, Lafleur, let’s get one thing straight. I’m not one to cause you any problems, okay?”

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