Always Enough (Meet Me in Montana #2) - Kelly Elliott Page 0,90
problem, Ty.”
He closed his eyes. “Did you see her eyes, Kaylee?”
I swallowed hard. “Yes.”
“How can you not see this as some sort of sign? The moment I let myself believe I can be happy, that there is a light at the end of this fucking dark tunnel, something turns it off again.”
When I stepped back and away from him, I took his hands in mine. “Do the DNA test; let’s find out if Olivia is yours. Then let’s tackle the next issue . . . but this might not even be an issue, so let’s worry about it when we have something to worry about.”
He nodded.
“Ty, if you are her father, that wouldn’t change how I feel about you.”
He shook his head.
“Don’t you dare say I deserve someone else, someone better. I don’t want anyone else. I want you.”
His eyes looked so incredibly sad, it nearly broke my heart in two. “If I’m not her father?”
“Then you need to decide if you want to still be tested as a match.”
“Isn’t this a little strange, Kaylee? There’s a random woman I hooked up with four years ago, asking me to be tested to help save her kid who may or may not be mine.”
“It’s not the way I had imagined our relationship starting off, but I’m not afraid of a challenge.”
Ty didn’t smile at my attempt at humor.
“One step at a time. For what it’s worth, Ty, even if you aren’t her father, I think you should be tested. This little girl’s life depends on it.”
He nodded. When he walked to the door and told Katy to come back in, I felt my chest pull tight. Despite what I’d said, I honestly wasn’t sure how I was going to handle it if Ty was a father. While Ty and Katy spoke about his going for the testing, I focused on keeping my breathing steady. This was not the time or the place to have a breakdown.
Olivia played with her teddy bear and kept looking up at Ty. While I couldn’t shake the feeling that all of our worlds were about to be turned upside down.
Chapter Twenty-Six
TY
After I’d informed Bill and Rich, and then Sam, of my decision not to take the job, the fucking rug had gotten pulled out from under me. The moment Kaylee had walked into that room and I saw Katy, I knew shit was about to get real.
It had taken me a minute or two to figure out who Katy was. The kid she was holding was my biggest wake-up call ever. Her blue eyes did look like mine; there was no doubt about it. And, much to Kaylee’s credit, she never once faltered.
It was killing me, not being able to talk to her about all of this, especially with how amazing this morning had been and how we had left things open to talk. Trying to figure out what in the hell was going through her mind was driving me mad. She’d only asked earlier this morning about kids, and now there was a possibility I might have one.
I knew deep in my heart, though, that the little girl wasn’t mine.
I didn’t feel anything toward her. Nothing. If she had been mine, wouldn’t I have felt some sort of connection? Something?
Katy was insistent that we head to her doctor’s office and get the DNA test done as soon as possible. Since I wasn’t going on air, I’d told her we could do it today. Kaylee stood by me the entire time, a smile on her face while she kept her thoughts pretty much to herself. She held my hand and gave me a reassuring nod when needed, but I saw it in her eyes. I also saw the way she looked at the little girl, whose only resemblance to me was her blue eyes. She was the spitting image of her mother. I had to admit I’d stared at her intensely, trying to see anything, and had come up with nothing each time.
Lincoln and Brock had been calling Kaylee nonstop. I finally sent him a text with the shortened version of what was going on and asked him to give me some space. For once in his life, he actually did what I asked of him.
There was a brief moment at the doctor’s office when Kaylee had excused herself. She wasn’t gone for very long, but I knew she was trying to keep her composure up. I hated that she was going through all of this.