more believable in the role. Rafe and Alyssa looked as if they belonged together.
Quite simply, the answer was that he’d only just now thought of the ruse. And asking Alyssa to pose as his fiancée might get sticky. He knew she had more than a passing liking for him, and while he was flattered, he didn’t want to get his life tangled up with anyone else’s at present. Bethany was the only female he could safely handle for the time being.
Rafe took the easy way out. “Because she’s not asking me to go off to Austin and pretend to be happy about some reunion.”
They seemed doomed to continue getting off on the wrong foot. “I’m not asking you to pretend to be happy about it—”
“Good, one less thing to do.” Bethany began fussing against him. He’d gotten good at telling the different noises apart. This one meant she was sleepy.
“I think you’re going about this all wrong.”
Didn’t this woman every stop flapping her gums? “And ‘this’ would be…?”
“The Christmas reunion.” She was beginning to think he was deliberately being difficult. “It’s supposed to be fun.”
“I’ll put on my happy face,” he promised her, sarcasm tingeing his words. And then he thought of something. They couldn’t just say they were engaged and expect the judge to believe them. He needed something to serve as outward proof that he was serious.
“Here, hold her for a minute.”
Not waiting for Greer to say anything, he thrust the baby toward her.
Surprised, Greer had no choice but to take the fussing baby into arms that were far more adept at holding on to stacks of tightly bound quarterly financial reports.
Then, to her further dismay, Rafe walked away from her.
“Where are you going?” she called after him. The baby squirmed in her arms.
“To get something” was all he said.
As Greer tried to hold on to Bethany without dropping her, her dismay deepened. This time it was a pint-size fiery womanette who was making her feel that she was decidedly out of her element. Large or small, the end result was the same.
With a sigh, Greer looked toward the room that Rafe had disappeared into. Now what?
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