The Cowboy's Secret Baby: A BWWM Pregnancy Romance Read Online Free PDF

for it to happen, it was still hard to believe that it was happening.
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    Jonathon put Janis in the car and climbed in with her to drive her home.
    He had no idea where to begin with her. “Janis, I know this must come as an unthinkable shock to you; it’s a big surprise for me, too. I’m so sorry. I had no idea at all that... that I was a father, or I’d have been back here right away; in fact, we probably wouldn’t have met at all,” he said, shaking his head in wonder.
    He looked at her and saw that she was staring straight ahead and not talking at all.
    He sighed. “Okay. You’re upset; I can understand that. I can absolutely understand that. I’ll give you some time to think about it, and you and I can talk about it when I get back from my visit with her. I’m going to be talking to my parents as well, but they’re gone this afternoon. I’ll have to wait until tonight when I get back to the house.”
    She still said nothing. He drove her all the way back to the house in silence and dropped her off with a kiss on her cheek before she turned and walked away from him.
    He called his mother while he was still at the ranch and got her voicemail. “Mom, I need to talk with you and Dad tonight. There are some serious things to discuss. Please come home soon and wait for me. I’ll be there as soon as I can,” he said, trying to mask the bitterness in his voice.
    He hung up and looked out over the vast valley in front of him and the enormous Teton Mountains. He had a child. A daughter. The thought of her made his heart swell, and he couldn’t wrap his mind around the reality of it, even though he had seen her. She was beautiful; and he knew she had his heart wrapped around her tiny little finger.
    Then there was her mother. Maggie was just as stunning as ever, and he was amazed that she had gone through all that she had on her own and was still making it work; making her life and the life of their daughter happen with no help from him or his parents.
    She had taken his breath away, standing there in the sun, and when he held her, wrapping his arms around her on the sidewalk, everything from the night they had shared had come back to him and he had felt it all again. Every bit of it; the heat, the electricity between them, her soft skin and sweet lavender smelling hair. The light in her sea green eyes. It had been like a whiplash for him to see her again; thinking everything in his life was fine and going one way, and then in a single instant, everything in his life was going another way.
    He had no idea how he was going to handle the sudden shift in his life, but he knew without a doubt that his daughter was going to be part of his life no matter what. He had always wanted children, and he had always planned on having them, but he’d never guessed that it would happen the way that it had.
    Jonathon couldn’t even begin to think about why his parents hadn’t told him about his child, but he would think about that later, and focus on talking to Maggie before anyone else. He got into his car, sending a last look at the window of the room where Janis was staying, and then he drove back into town to talk with the mother of his daughter.
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    A short while later, he was standing at her front door with a huge bouquet of flowers in his hand and his heart on his sleeve as he knocked on her door.
    Maggie heard the knock and was sure that her heart was about to beat right out of her chest. She looked at her daughter who was playing in the living room, and who, when she heard the knock on the door, looked up at her mother and clapped her hands, toddling toward the door to wait to see who was there.
    Maggie stood behind her with her hand on her daughter’s shoulder as she opened the door and looked up to see Jonathon there. He smiled at her and she felt everything in her rush. She smiled back and picked Carly up to hold her while he came inside.
    He held the flowers out to her and in return, she smiled at him and asked,