Читать книгу The SEAL's Baby - Rogenna Brewer - Страница 2
Had McCaffrey really said that he liked kids as long as they were “somebody else’s”?
Оглавление“Hannah, wait up.” Her sister pushed the stroller at a slight jog to keep up with Hannah’s military stride. “He didn’t mean anything by it. He thinks—”
Hannah stopped short. “I know what he thinks, Samantha.”
“Excuse me?”
“What’s with you? Flirting with Fallon’s father, pretending to be her mother…”
“I never did any of that. He just assumed.”
Hannah took a deep breath, deep enough for the flush of anger and jealousy to fade just a little. She glanced toward McCaffrey, who was still talking to her mother. His assumptions played in to Hannah’s deepest fears—that in the end it would be her sister who would raise Fallon, not her.
Sammy followed her gaze. “Don’t worry. Your secret’s safe. You and Mom are cut from the same cloth.”
“What’s that supposed to mean?”
“It means Mom’s going to keep quiet. And you… You button up all your emotions inside that white jacket, and the Navy rewards you for it with those ribbons worn in place of your heart.”
“I’m not emotionless,” Hannah denied. “Do you honestly think I don’t feel anything?”
“Then you deserve a Purple Heart. Because if you’re bleeding nobody knows it. Least of all him.”
