Trouble Down The Road. Bettye Griffin
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Название: Trouble Down The Road
Автор: Bettye Griffin
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Короткие любовные романы
isbn: 9780758266507
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“Oh, it’ll be fine,” Arlene said dismissively. “It’ll be just as I told you. Ernie and Flo will want him to marry Kenya, just to legitimize the baby. They’ll tell him he can divorce her after the baby’s born. They’ll tell Kenya that, too.”
“You’re forgetting one important detail, Mom. Gregory doesn’t love her. I personally believe”—Suzanne lowered her voice to just above a whisper—“that he comes to her between his other relationships, just because she’s there. If you ask me, she’s a fool to keep taking him back. So what can possibly come from Kenya and Gregory getting married other than a broken heart for Kenya?”
“A wonderful life. All Kenya has to do is make Gregory not want to divorce her.”
“Mom, I hate to be a spoilsport, but I just don’t see that happening. If Kenya could hold him with sex alone, he wouldn’t have gone after Paige.” Suzanne didn’t even want to think about the loving way Gregory had treated Paige last night, holding her hand, looking at her with love in his eyes. Was her mother blind? “And you know as well as I do that Kenya’s housekeeping skills are”—she groped for the right word—“atrocious.”
“Well, she’ll have to brush up on her housekeeping skills and learn how to cook,” Arlene said. “She needs to hold off on a divorce as long as she can. It’ll probably be five or six years at least before Gregory starts making any big money. If they have to divorce, I want to make sure Kenya gets a piece of whatever he’s got. Then she can get to work on finding a second husband who has even more money than Gregory.”
Suzanne had to admire her mother’s maneuvering. “You’ve got it all planned out, don’t you?”
“They say you should marry for love the first time, and for financial security with subsequent marriages, no matter how many there may be.”
“Tell me, Mom. Did you feel that way about me when I married Brad?”
“Of course not. I could tell you two were madly in love. Brad needed no other reason to marry you other than because he wanted to.”
Suzanne beamed, unable to deny how good her mother’s statement made her feel, but she still worried about the current situation. She might have requested Brad not be told until after Kenya had her condition confirmed, but she already saw the pickle that put her in. Brad would be upset if he learned about Kenya’s pregnancy from Paige, but Suzanne also knew that if she told him as soon as she found out, then he’d be sure to tell Paige. It simply wasn’t right for Brad’s daughter to know about Kenya’s pregnancy before Gregory, the father, knew. She had to work it out in her head.
And fast.
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