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Оглавление“You have to marry her.”
Cooper couldn’t imagine why his daughter had gotten all worked up over being without a stepmother. Her mother had been gone a long time, nearly half Katie’s life. They’d adjusted, moved on, tried to make a family with just the three of them.
“Why?”
“Because I wrote a letter and asked Mrs. Bauer to come here.”
Cooper deposited Katie on the floor and bolted from the chair. “Let me get this straight. You wrote a letter to a perfect stranger and asked her to come here?”
“To marry us.”
“How did you find Mrs. Bauer in the first place?”
“I bought a newspaper advertisement.”
“You placed a request for a mother in a newspaper?”
Katie’s eyes still brimmed with tears. “No. I pretended to be you....”