No Commitment (Capital Kingsmen #1) - Lisa Suzanne Page 0,63

discuss, but he deserves this time.

I blow out a breath. “I’ve made a big mess of my life.”

“Do you need a cup of tea?”

I laugh, but the joy is gone from my laughter. It’s forced. “You’re turning into Mom.”

“Oh, God.” She shoots me a look of horror, and I can’t even force a real laugh at that. She eyes me with concern. “Okay, spill it, sister.”

“I slept with Tyler last night.”

She gasps. She knows about our history...mostly. She knows I still have feelings for him. She knows he’s the one I ran into at Carne’s earlier today.

“Oh, Danielle. What about your husband?” She whispers the last word, like it’ll soften the blow, but I’ve been hit so many times that I don’t even feel it.

“Speaking of my husband, there’s more.” I hold my breath for a beat, and then I rush the words. “Ford isn’t Luna’s dad. Tyler is.”

Her eyes round. Her mouth does, too. “What?” she screeches.

“Tyler found out today.”

“What...but...why didn’t you tell him sooner? Oh my God. Why did you lie?”

I shrug. “I was scared. I thought I was doing the right thing for her. Ford was so wonderful and sweet to me, and when he said he’d take care of me, I decided to just...let him. It was easier living that lie and knowing my baby would have a daddy than to wonder whether Tyler would find time in his schedule for us.”

“Oh, D,” she says, and the sympathy in her tone is overwhelming. “I’m so sorry I wasn’t there for you like I should have been.”

“You’ve always been there for me,” I say, defending her. This has nothing to do with her. “You were busy with a baby. I get it now. But it wasn’t your fault I felt alone. It was Tyler. He went on that reality show and then he went overseas and I knew it would just be one thing after another for Luna’s entire life.”

She eyes me with sympathy. “So he found out today? What was the reaction? And what about Ford?”

I sigh as I finish eating. “One thing at a time. Yes, he found out today. He’s angry with me, and he wants to talk. I assume he wants to be a part of her life. And I haven’t figured out Ford just yet. He doesn’t have any legal rights, but he loves that little girl, and she adores him, too.”

“If you need a place to stay, you’re always welcome here,” she says. I usually stay with my parents when I come into town, but I sort of like the option of staying with my sister a while. My parents’ house is so quiet, where there’s already a toddler in this home. This house is babyproofed and set up for kids. And it would give me my sister and my daughter her cousin. “I mean if you want to leave Wisconsin and come back to give him time with her. There’s always room for both of you here.”

I hug my sister and glance at the clock over her shoulder. “I need to go.” I’ve already spent the first ten minutes of Luna’s nap eating and talking, and I’d like to give Tyler the chance to yell and swear and scream at me if he needs to without my daughter watching his every move.

“I’ll bring her to Tyler’s as soon as she’s awake,” Diana says.

“Thank you.”

Her husband, Weston, is upstairs working in the home office, and she said I could borrow his car. So I hop into the Mercedes and head back to Tyler’s house.

My heart thumps in my chest the entire ride there, which isn’t far. Nerves race down my spine.

This conversation has been over two years in the making, and I’m anxious about it. Half of me wants to have it, and the other half of me wants to run far, far away from everything.

Everything except Luna.

When the door opens, he’s standing there and I can see the other three guys in his band sitting at the kitchen table. I wave, and they wave back, and then Tyler ushers me upstairs to his bedroom where we can talk in private. I wonder if they know.

“Am I interrupting a meeting?” I ask.

He nods. “It’s fine. It’s my fault. I forgot about it.”

I stare at his bed when I walk into the room. We had sex there the weekend I came out to visit him when I was pregnant with our daughter but didn’t know it yet. I want to sit there.