Somebody's Baby
“When Josie had come back from cleaning the child up, Conner had gone.
“He wanted me to give you this.” Adam offered her a business card held between two fingers, the way she’d seen boys fling playing cards into hats.
She took if from him and, reading the words imprinted on it, understood why the stray Burdett brother might have wanted to send the card sailing as far away as possible.
“Burke Burdett,” she read the name softly, scanned his official title and then studied the number handwritten be...neath it. His private line. Not the kind of thing the average citizen of Mt. Knott was privy to. Josie turned the card over in her hand. On the back were the words, “Timetable. Menu. Payment” in shaky handwriting.
“I guess I’m supposed to call your brother about these things?”
Adam only nodded before he slipped Nathan from Josie’s hold and turned the child so they could look each other in the eye. Of course, Nathan did not cooperate fully with that eye-to-eye plan, which made the picture of the father and son all the more endearing.MoreLess
“He wanted me to give you this.” Adam offered her a business card held between two fingers, the way she’d seen boys fling playing cards into hats.
She took if from him and, reading the words imprinted on it, understood why the stray Burdett brother might have wanted to send the card sailing as far away as possible.
“Burke Burdett,” she read the name softly, scanned his official title and then studied the number handwritten be...neath it. His private line. Not the kind of thing the average citizen of Mt. Knott was privy to. Josie turned the card over in her hand. On the back were the words, “Timetable. Menu. Payment” in shaky handwriting.
“I guess I’m supposed to call your brother about these things?”
Adam only nodded before he slipped Nathan from Josie’s hold and turned the child so they could look each other in the eye. Of course, Nathan did not cooperate fully with that eye-to-eye plan, which made the picture of the father and son all the more endearing.MoreLess
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