Yellow Rose Mysteries 02 - a Wedding to Die for (2005)
““James Beadford adopted his own daughter, cat!”
She was not impressed by my lightbulb moment. She struggled free and ran off, leaving me with a handful of calico hair.
I should have considered this possibility sooner. Why else would James Beadford have brought the child of the woman who’d nearly ruined him into his home?
I had to tell Megan, but was tonight the right time to load her up with a heavy dose of family and company history, none of it too pretty? No, I wanted the DNA report in hand a...nd Kate sitting beside us when that conversation took place. Kate’s the expert on dealing with emotions.
I unzipped the cookie bag—I definitely needed a chocolate fix—and ate while I dumped the contents of my purse onto the kitchen table to look for Jug’s card. Three cookies later I had him on the line and he sounded as cheerful as when we’d last seen each other.
“Sorry I don’t call sooner, miss. But Martha, she be having so much trouble.”
“Oh no. Her pregnancy?” I asked.MoreLess
She was not impressed by my lightbulb moment. She struggled free and ran off, leaving me with a handful of calico hair.
I should have considered this possibility sooner. Why else would James Beadford have brought the child of the woman who’d nearly ruined him into his home?
I had to tell Megan, but was tonight the right time to load her up with a heavy dose of family and company history, none of it too pretty? No, I wanted the DNA report in hand a...nd Kate sitting beside us when that conversation took place. Kate’s the expert on dealing with emotions.
I unzipped the cookie bag—I definitely needed a chocolate fix—and ate while I dumped the contents of my purse onto the kitchen table to look for Jug’s card. Three cookies later I had him on the line and he sounded as cheerful as when we’d last seen each other.
“Sorry I don’t call sooner, miss. But Martha, she be having so much trouble.”
“Oh no. Her pregnancy?” I asked.MoreLess
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