nothing but a man-hunting busybody?” he said, then stomped off into the kitchen for his afternoon snack.
Molly followed him. Unable to push just a little, she waited until he looked at her. “Pop, I know how much you loved Mom, but I don’t want to see you bury yourself in this house.”
“Hardly any chance of that,” he said, rooting in the fridge and coming up with a block of his favorite cheese. “Not with Brigham here, too, and that baby that’s not his.”
“Now you’re being unkind.”
“Well, I don’t see the good of it, Molly. If his parents aren’t coming home anytime soon—”
“We don’t know that.”
“Then why doesn’t he find an apartment or something?”
“For just a short stay?”
“And why isn’t there someone else who can take care of that child? Makes no sense for a man who’s little more than a drifter, a man who will likely head off tomorrow or next week for who knows where to play shoot ’em up.”
Molly’s stomach sank. She didn’t like to imagine Brig in a firefight somewhere, in danger far from home. Not that home was high on his priority list. But to imagine Brig wounded, or even gone like his teammate, Sean...?
“That’s Brig’s business,” she said, “not ours. All I can do is help him learn how to care for Laila properly—which I’ve promised to do while he’s here—and keep my ears open for any news of his folks.”
“Huh,” Thomas muttered. “Well, I’ve been keeping my eyes open with him, and I doubt baby care is the only thing on his mind.”
“Don’t you dare say it,” Molly cautioned him.
She was trying hard not to think about Brig, just as her father was trying hard not to acknowledge any interest in the woman still ringing the bell next door.
But, no. A glance out the window told Molly the woman was now steaming across the yard to Pop’s front door.
“Uh-oh. There’s no escape,” she told him.
And went to answer the bell.
Unlike Pop, Molly welcomed the chance to distract herself.
She could only hope she wasn’t occupying Brig’s mind.
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