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pre-parental accomplishments off on her
fingers. “I took the Red Cross Babysitting course when I was in junior high, I
earned a childcare badge in Girl Scouts. And I was a counselor at a summer camp
all through college. What about you? Can you name one child under the age of
three you’ve ever spent time with alone?”
    “No,
you’re right, that’s why I have a plan.” His quiet tone commanded attention
more forcefully than a shout from someone else. “Until we’re both comfortable
with my abilities, I’m willing to move into your house and let you teach me
everything I need to know.”

 
    “No
way!” Kara’s eyes nearly bugged out of her head. Even Wyatt wondered about the
wisdom of the proposition. “How can you suggest such a thing?”
    “You
owe me, Kara.” When continued to glare, he forged ahead. “I helped you when you
needed it the most. Now, I’m trying hard to focus on the fact that I’ve got a
two-year-old son and not on the fact that I didn’t find out about him until
last night. But sometimes that thought does creep in.”
    She
chewed her bottom lip. “Are you sure you didn’t know about him before last
night? I keep thinking you didn’t seem all that surprised when you first saw
him.”
    “I
knew before I arrived at your house that you had a son, but not that I had one.
After I caught a glimpse of you hightailing it out of Sam’s show last night, I
cornered Regina and asked her to fill me in on your recent activities.”
    “You
talked to Regina?” Kara puffed up beside him like a blowfish. “You had no
right.”
    “No?
As a friend who was worried about you, I thought I had the right to check on
your well-being. When she told me about Sean, it explained a lot about why you
made so many excuses to avoid me during the last few years. Some of them were
pretty weak, Kara.”
    She
turned her head away, giving him the rearview of her graceful neck and her
beautiful hair trapped in an unflattering topknot. “I hated lying to you.”
    He
believed she hated the deceit, but that didn’t excuse the action. “Why did you
feel you had to hide the truth from me?”
    “I
didn’t want to.” The way she studied the passing scenery instead of looking at
him made Wyatt doubt her truthfulness even now. What more could she be hiding?
    “You
made it more difficult than it needed to be.” He gentled his tone and reached
for her hand. “Did you ever consider that I might have understood?”
    “You’d
made your position pretty clear.” She tugged her hand from his grip. “I asked
if you ever wanted to have children. You said no.”
    She’d
offered this explanation the night before, but it still didn’t seem to fit.
“And you let it go at that?”
    Hunching
her shoulders, she lowered her head, muffling her next words. “A few months
later, I called to tell you I was pregnant, but there had been that trouble
with Xander. As I recall, you expressed your gratitude over your childless
state with heartfelt eloquence.”
    “You
might have guessed that was stress doing the talking.”
    “I
did, and as my due date drew near, I called again.”
    “And...?
What unwitting idiocy did I utter that time?”
    “You
said you were seeing someone.”
    Ah,
yes. Kristin. Talk about cross-purposes. “Damn.”
    She
trailed her fingers through the sides of her hair, pushing back any tendrils
that had dared to escape. “And are you? Seeing someone? It’s none of my
business, but some women—most women—wouldn’t take this news lightly.”
    “I’m
not seeing anyone.”
    “What
about Samantha Davenport? I only saw you with her for a few seconds, but you
seemed... close.” Was that jealousy he detected?
    “We’re
friends. That’s all.” A prickly feeling of annoyance spread over him. First
Regina, then Dylan, and now Kara, had doubted him on this subject. All of them
imagined something intimate going on between him and Sam. But they were wrong.
Not in a very long time anyway.
    “Really?
The way you