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

his parents would react when they saw his new fiancée.
    “You know, when you called and said you were coming home this week, I wasn’t sure if I should believe you or not,” his mother chastised him. “After all, here you are, gone for two whole years and you have not come home even once, not even for holidays, and then the last time we talked, you said you were coming home and I just didn’t know if I would believe it until you walked in the door, and now that you’ve walked in, I still don’t know if I believe it.” Eva laughed and shook her head, taking a long drink of her wine.
    Jonathon nodded. He knew she would be saying a bit to him about having been gone so long, even though they had talked about it on the phone so many times.
    “It’s good to be here, Mom, and you look beautiful.” He smiled at her and squeezed her hand. She sat there in her blouse and slacks, her brown and silver hair neatly curled and set, and her blue eyes, eyes that matched her son’s cobalt blue ones, were steady on him.
    Keith sat up in his chair and leaned toward his son. “I still don’t understand why you ever wanted to leave in the first place; after all, just about everything you need is right here. Except, I guess, for this lovely young lady. Tell me,” he said, smiling kindly at them both, “how did you two meet?”
    Janis grinned and looked at Jonathon, reaching her hand over to him and covering his hand with it.
    Jonathon smiled back at her and launched into the story of how they met.
    “Well, I had been living in Manhattan for the last few months and I was in one of the nice shops on Fifth Avenue when I saw Janis in the same store. I talked to her and she was shopping for her mother in there, the same as I was. She said she was just visiting New York and didn’t really know her way around. I’d been there long enough that I told her I could give her a good tour of the city, so we went out to lunch and then we spent the next few days looking at the city, and then those next few days just kind of spilled over into a couple of months. When I said I was coming home here to the ranch, she was heartbroken that I was leaving and she said she just couldn’t lose me after all we had shared, so I asked her to marry me, and she said she would come out here with me.” He rubbed his thumb over her hand and smiled at her.
    Eva blinked a few times and then nodded at the couple. “That’s a sweet story. Jonathon always was really good about helping people out, no matter what they needed, but I guess you noticed that right away, didn’t you? I just never thought it would be something that got him engaged! It’s so wonderful, and of course we are so glad to have you here in the house. You’re welcome to stay as long as you like.” She nodded to them both.
    Jonathon looked at his parents and raised his eyebrows. “Well, I was thinking that we could buy the guest house from you and stay there.”
    Keith looked stunned. “Buy it? Jonathon, this whole place is as much ours as it is yours. That guest house is yours if you want it.”
    Jonathon nodded and grinned. “Thanks, Dad. I think we’ll stay up here in the big house with the two of you for a little while, maybe a few weeks or so, while we get the guest house all set up for Janis, and then we’ll get moved into that.”
    He looked at his mother and smiled. “Janis was wondering if you might want to help her plan the wedding, as we want to get married real soon; maybe within a couple of months at most.”
    His mother lowered her brows at him slightly. “Oh of course, dear!” she said with a smile, but then her look changed to concern. “That’s a very short engagement. Is there some reason that you want to be married so soon?” she asked curiously, eyeing Janis.
    Jonathon laughed. “No, Mother, no reason other than that we want to be married. That’s it.” He winked at her and Eva blushed slightly and drank more wine.
    “Well, Janis, where are you from?” Keith