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

“Would you like to hold her? I’m not sure if she’ll let you, she can be a little shy—” Maggie stopped there. Carly had reached her arms out to him, and Jonathon’s eyes lit up and he grinned.
    “Is it all right? I’d love to hold her!” he said, reaching for her. She laughed her baby laugh at him and then snuggled in to his neck, wrapping her arms around him as far as she could.
    All Jonathon could do was breathe her scent in and close his eyes as his skin touched hers and he held her in his arms for the first time. It was the single most important moment of his life to that point. He held her in silence for a moment, his hands canvassing her entire back; she was so small. He could feel her little heart beating in her and he couldn’t breathe. All he wanted to do was hold his precious baby girl in his arms and somehow hold the moment and make it last forever, but she wiggled and moved, she planted her hands on his cheeks and he opened his blue eyes and looked into hers that were a perfect match of his.
    He grinned at her. “Hello, Carly!” he said with a light, happy voice. “You are such a beautiful girl! Yes you are. What a sweet girl you are,” he told her, bouncing her slightly.
    Jonathon played with her for a few minutes in his arms and then set her on the floor as she seemed to want, wiggling to get down from him, and as soon as she was on the floor, she walked over to one of her toys and took it to him as he sat down on the sofa, watching her. She went for another toy and brought it to him, handing it to him, and then as he took it, she went off for another.
    Maggie laughed a little. “She’s learning about sharing,” she said. “I think she’s got it down, but she tends to go a little overboard on it.”
    She walked over and sat near him on the sofa, watching him with his daughter. It made her heart swell to see the two of them interacting as they were, especially having thought that it was never going to happen.
    Carly got distracted with her toys, sitting down to play with them, and Jonathon set the armload she had brought him down near her on the floor where she was busying herself with her wooden blocks and plastic shapes.
    He looked at Maggie and shook his head. “Tell me what happened!” he said quietly. “I mean, I know what happened the night we were together, I’m never going to forget that, but what happened after that?”
    Maggie sighed and leaned forward, resting her arms on her knees as she spoke to him.
    “I woke up and you were gone. I didn’t really think much of it, although, I did think I would hear from you after that. A few days went by, then a week, and then two weeks, and then I realized I wasn’t going to hear from you. I was okay with it. We had a great time, as you said in your note.” She smiled to herself.
    “Then a month went by and I didn’t feel so good, and then two months went by and I knew something was up, so I went to the doctor. It was the end of my time here, or at least it was going to be, but then the doctor told me that I was two months pregnant, and I was just... shocked. I mean, I had no idea what to do. I came back here and cried for a couple of days, but then I knew I had to pull myself together and figure out what to do.”
    He watched her quietly and she seemed to be staring off into the past, her eyes not focused on anything in front of her as she remembered all of it and went back to it in her mind.
    “I was supposed to leave at the end of August to go back to school in California, but I knew I wanted to keep the baby; for me there was really no choice in that aspect, and I knew that if I kept the baby, there was no way that I could go to school, and work, and try to do all of it while I was pregnant and alone, and then try to raise a baby by myself. I don’t have anyone; my parents are both much older and they’re in a retirement home. I thought I would go to you and tell you. I thought we could try to work something out together. I