Judy Christenberry - The Texan's Tiny Dilemma

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Finding a Family #1762

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Silhouette Books

The Coltons

The Doctor Delivers

A Colton Family Christmas

“The Diplomat’s Daughter”

Lone Star Country Club

The Last Bachelor

has been writing romances for over fifteen years because she loves happy endings as much as her readers do. She’s a bestselling author for Harlequin American Romance, but she has a long love of traditional romances and is delighted to tell a story that brings those elements to the reader. A former high school French teacher, Judy devotes her time to writing. She hopes readers have as much fun reading her stories as she does writing them. She spends her spare time reading, watching her favorite sports teams and keeping track of her two adult daughters.

Prologue Prologue Teresa Tyler wearily eased away from the toilet. She’d been sick every morning for the past two weeks. At first, she’d thought she had a touch of the flu. But now she had more than a niggling feeling her first guess had been wrong. Steadying her nervous hands, she withdrew the small box from the drugstore sack and carefully read the directions. They were supposed to be easy, or so the manufacturer said. Right now nothing seemed simple. After she followed the two-step process, she paced the floor of her house, waiting the allotted time. But she knew what the results would show. To be honest, she’d figured it out pretty quickly, even though it hadn’t happened to her before. Nor had she planned for it to happen. Not at all, which was stupid on her part. She’d been so wrapped up in the throes of love that her actions had seemed so natural, absolutely perfect. Time was up. She picked up the test strip and looked at her fate. She was pregnant.

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Epilogue

Teresa Tyler wearily eased away from the toilet. She’d been sick every morning for the past two weeks.

At first, she’d thought she had a touch of the flu. But now she had more than a niggling feeling her first guess had been wrong. Steadying her nervous hands, she withdrew the small box from the drugstore sack and carefully read the directions. They were supposed to be easy, or so the manufacturer said. Right now nothing seemed simple.

After she followed the two-step process, she paced the floor of her house, waiting the allotted time. But she knew what the results would show. To be honest, she’d figured it out pretty quickly, even though it hadn’t happened to her before.

Nor had she planned for it to happen. Not at all, which was stupid on her part. She’d been so wrapped up in the throes of love that her actions had seemed so natural, absolutely perfect.

Time was up. She picked up the test strip and looked at her fate.

She was pregnant.

At four months pregnant, Teresa Tyler didn’t move as quickly as she used to. So when the phone rang she needed three rings to answer it.

“I just realized I haven’t seen you for more than a month. Why don’t you come for dinner this evening?” It was her sister Tommie. She took being the eldest of the triplet sisters seriously and at times acted more like Teresa’s mother than her sibling. “I’ve invited Tabitha and Mom, with Joel, of course, and Pete’s mother and brother. It’ll be a family night. Say you’ll come.”

Panic instantly filling her, Teresa replied immediately. “I can’t.”

“But, Teresa—”

Teresa drew a deep breath. She’d known this day would come sometime. Tonight was probably as good as any to reveal her secret. “I’ll come on one condition.”

“What’s that?” Tommie asked.

“If you and Tabitha come to lunch today. Just us girls.”

Tommie hesitated. Then she said, “Okay. I’ll call Tabitha.”

“Great. I’ll see you both at noon.”

After she hung up the phone, Teresa sighed deeply. It was almost a relief that she finally had to tell her sisters the truth. It was inevitable. She couldn’t avoid them forever. Besides, she needed Tommie and Tabitha on her side when she faced her mother tonight.

But first things first. How was she going to tell her sisters that she was pregnant and had every intention of raising her baby alone?

On the way, Tommie Tyler Schofield picked up her sister Tabitha. “Have you actually seen Teresa lately?”

“Why, no. She’s spending all her spare time working on her book. Which isn’t easy after teaching all day.”

“So she is teaching? One of the women who moved with Pete’s company told me Teresa wasn’t at the same school anymore.”