Reunited...With Child by Katherine Garbera Read Free Book Online

the consequences because she wanted her son to have everything that she’d never had.
    She wanted him to go to good schools and have new bikes and nice friends. But she also wanted him to have a father. To have a man who’d play catch with him and talk to him. And teach him to drive to someday. And she wasn’t going to find a better man than the one who had unknowingly sired him.
    Cam was still on the phone when she came out of the bedroom but looked up at her when he saw them. He smiled and then wrapped up his conversation. And despite her determination to tell Cam the truth, her determination to ensure that Ty had a relationship with his father, she faltered. Because she knew that Cam would never again look at her the way he did right now once she told him the truth.
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    Cam finished up his call. There was no way that Ty wasn’t his child. He looked just like Nate and had the same cowlick that Cam himself had. But how was that possible? He wasn’t a man who left things like that to chance.
    Becca came back into the room holding the baby, and Cam waited to see how she would proceed. He was angry that she’d kept his son from him, but he wanted to hear what she had to say.
    â€œI’m so glad our paths were brought back together. I felt like we had unfinished business after the way things ended,” Becca said. “In fact I have something important to talk to you about.”
    â€œThat sounds very cryptic.”
    â€œI hope that once I tell you…there’s no easy way for me to say what I have to, Cam. I want you to know that the last thing I ever wanted to do was to hurt you.”
    â€œI repeat—that sounds very cryptic,” he said. He glanced again at the boy.
    â€œOh, man, there is no easy way to say this.”
    â€œJust do it,” he said.
    â€œYes. Um…sit down,” she said.
    As soon as he sat down, she popped up and paced away from him.
    She shoved her fingers into her hair and pulled. “You’re his father, Cam. I got pregnant when we were together.”
    â€œWhat?” he asked.
    â€œYou are Ty’s father,” she said. There—it was out inthe open, and now they could discuss it like two mature adults.
    â€œI don’t believe it.”
    â€œWhat’s not to believe?”
    â€œWe used condoms every time.”
    â€œYou know they aren’t one-hundred-percent reliable, right?”
    â€œOf course I do. But this has never happened to me before, so don’t be snarky,” Cam said, getting to his feet. He was the determined businessman she’d first met two years ago. A man used to getting answers. A man used to getting his way.
    â€œI wasn’t trying to be sarcastic. I just have been struggling to tell you about Ty and it never occurred to me that you’d doubt he was yours.”
    â€œThat’s where you made your mistake. I’ve had another woman accuse me of being the father of her child.”
    Becca put her hands up in the air. “I’m not going to argue with you about this.”
    â€œOf course you aren’t,” he said. “I’m not sure I can believe that I have son, but I see the resemblance and I suspected…”
    â€œYou do have one. I’m sorry I didn’t tell you about him sooner but I never had any idea that you would care.”
    He turned back toward her, and she’d never seen anyone look angrier than he did. She took a step away from him, but he didn’t walk toward her.
    â€œHow would you know that?” he asked.
    â€œWe weren’t in a relationship, Cam. Don’t youremember—my boss didn’t even know we’d slept together.” She’d been so overwhelmed by Cam that she’d hardly been able to think of what to do. Two years ago…she’d been twenty-five, and no matter how adult and mature she’d thought she was, well, she wasn’t. And Cam had made her feel…just feel. She’d had