Mommy on Board
Author
Muriel Jensen
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Chapters
15
It's me, Malia Rose, just hanging out, waiting to be born. Mommy says I don't need a daddy, and that we'll be just fine on our own…but I'd sure like to have one. Hey, I know! How about that cute radiologist, who keeps looking in at me with his funny machine? When Nancy Malone was asked to be the "model mom" to publicize Riverview Hospital's new birthing rooms, she couldn't resist the cache of baby gifts that came with the title. Only problem was, she needed a husband…one she quickly invented…and then sent off to sea! Who knew her radiologist would turn out to be Jave Nicholas — a sexy single dad in need of a wife? Seven months into her pregnancy, could she possibly win the heart of a man who knew her as Mrs. Malone?
PROLOGUE
THERE ARE NINETY-ONE more days until I am born—at least, I hope so. Mom’s been out since early this morning shopping for a desk chair, and that was after eating mocha macadamia cake for breakfast. Her indigestion sounds as bad as mine. If she isn’t careful, I’m going to be born right now with my eyelids half-open and still wearing this tacky lanugo mink coat that I was promised would be gone if I make it full term.
But, you gotta love her. She’s explained to me about my father. He’s been out of the picture for three months, and though she insists it isn’t going to matter, I have my own thoughts about that. But if she’s willing to give it a shot, so am I. I mean, he wanted me out of the picture, and in order to keep me, she gave up everything—including him, her job in New York, her rent-controlled apartment—that place on Forty-second Street with the cheese and onion bagels. It’s like I owe her.
Whoa. What was that? Ouch! Oh, no. I knew this would happen.
Hey, not yet! No! Mom? Mom, I’m not going anywhere ’til I have toenails! Mom!
