Baby Twins to Bind Them (Mills & Boon Medical)
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‘No, there’s nothing wrong with Candy or the babies,’ Steele said, and then he told them how he had fallen in love with her, how he was going to take care of her, how he was completely fine about the twins and that they would be his. ‘However,’ Steele said, ‘Gerry’s parents will know...’ He looked over at Candy. ‘Candy and I have discussed it and we both agree that a baby can never have too many grandparents to love them.’
He spoke and listened and then said that he and Candy had got married today. Candy could hear her mother come onto the phone and the rise of drama that she’d dreaded ensued. She’d have to talk to them and deal with their recriminations and the guilt. She held her hand out for the phone but Steele simply listened to her mother and then spoke in that calm way of his and slowly the tension in her uncoiled.
‘Candy didn’t feel it appropriate, given that the pregnancy is already showing, to get married in a church, but we might renew our vows there.’
He dealt with the drama and examined his thumbnail at one point as they droned on and on and then, finally, he smiled. ‘Perhaps you’d like to tell your daughter that.’ He handed her the phone. ‘Your parents want to speak with you.’
She took the phone and braced herself for whatever her mother would fling at her and closed her eyes.
‘Complimente...’ her mother said, and it was so unexpected, so far from what she’d anticipated, that Candy burst into happy tears as her mother continued to speak. ‘He sounds a nice man...’
‘A very nice man,’ Candy said.
A very nice man who was playing with her breasts and kissing her neck and was ready to get on with his honeymoon.
‘Better?’ Steele said as she hung up the phone.
‘Is that why you wanted an evening wedding?’
‘Yep. I didn’t want to scare them calling late at night,’ he said, ‘and I knew you’d be worried.’ He gave her a smile. ‘Come here, Steele.’
‘Steele?’ Candy said, and then realised that was her surname now.
‘Well, “Mrs Candida Steele”, if you want to be formal.’
She was back to her dental commercial and smiling as he took her in his arms.
They were back to before.
ISBN: 9781474004350
BABY TWINS TO BIND THEM
© 2015 by Carol Marinelli
Published in Great Britain 2015
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