Reunited...With Child Read Free

working the celebrity angleso we are going to have a room full of A-listers. Justin has smoothed over the tension we had in the local community and we will be combining the party with the groundbreaking for our new Mercado. That is the work I wanted to talk to you about,” he said.
    â€œWe should probably discuss it later,” she said, not wanting to talk business now.
    â€œDefinitely,” he said.
    â€œWe can all give you some business advice, Becca,” Russell said. “No sense letting you screw up the way I did early in my career.”
    â€œI can’t imagine Russell making many mistakes,” Amelia Munroe-Devonshire said. She was the guest speaker tonight. There was a time when she’d been more infamous than famous as the heiress to the Munroe hotel chain. But then she had married Geoff Devonshire last year and had been in the spotlight lately for her humanitarian work instead of her scandals.
    â€œI have made more than my share, Amelia. I just managed to keep them out of the headlines.”
    â€œTouché! It’s remarkably easier to stay out of the tabloids these days than it used to be. I can’t believe it,” she said.
    Becca smiled at the heiress. She was funny and very fashionable but also down-to-earth—something Becca hadn’t expected.
    â€œThat’s because I keep a firm hand on the situation,” Geoff said. Geoff was a minor member of the current royal family.
    â€œI believe that,” Cam added. “Both of you are ofcourse invited to the Tenth Anniversary Celebration in Miami.”
    â€œWe are scheduled to be in Berne for a special award that Geoff’s brother’s mother is receiving,” Amelia said.
    â€œYou must be proud of her,” Becca said. Like most people she knew that Geoff and his two brothers had the same father but different mothers. The scandal that had rocked the world in the ’70s when they’d been born had followed the men into adulthood and only last year when Malcolm Devonshire had died had it seemed to be put to rest.
    â€œWe are. Steven asked us to attend and we can’t say no to family,” Geoff said.
    â€œNo, you can’t,” Cam agreed. “That’s why I now have a brother in New York while our business is based in Miami. Justin is up here helping his fiancée close up her apartment before she moves back to Miami.”
    Geoff laughed. “You do what you have to when it comes to family.”
    Family. It was something she seldom thought about except in relation to her eighteen-month-old son, Ty. Her father had left when she was two, and her mother had died of breast cancer when Becca was a junior in college. She’d been on her own for so long that it had never occurred to her that she’d taken something very precious from Ty until this moment.
    Ty had uncles and a father who might want to know him. Might.
    That was a big word to base her fears on. One thingshe knew for certain was that he’d never intended her to be the mother of his child.
    She’d never intended it either.
    The conversations turned to more private matters, and eventually Russell got up to introduce Amelia. Becca didn’t know if she could sit at the table for another minute. She needed to get out of there.
    She wanted to go back home to Garden City where there was comfort in the walls of the home she’d grown up in and in holding her sweet eighteen-month-old son.
    As the lights went down and Amelia took the stage, Becca fumbled for her purse. It fell to the floor. Cam leaned in close, his big arm behind her.
    â€œAre you okay?”
    â€œYes. I just need to step outside for a minute.”
    Cam reached down and picked up her handbag, handing it back to her. She pulled out her cell phone and saw that she’d missed a call from Jasper, her nanny. Finally some karma that might be good.
    â€œI’ve got to go,” she said, standing and weaving her way through the tables.