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“She’ll just sleep with me. I thought I’d go furniture shopping after leaving here. Unless…do you want to go with me to pick out the furniture? You know more about what she’ll need than I do.”

She grinned. “I’d love to go with you. We’ll purchase a portable playpen you can take home tonight and let her sleep in that.”

Adam nodded. “That’s a great idea. What else will she need?” He pulled out his phone and started taking notes again. He was making a lot of notes, he realized. Having a child was a lot harder than he expected.

She put an index finger on her chin and pursed her lips. “Well, are you planning on doing a complete nursery?”

“Of course. I’ll turn the bedroom closest to mine into a nursery. You can have the bedroom on the other side so if she needs anything one of us will surely hear her. Although, we haven’t talked about it, I assume you’ll be moving into my house.”

“Of course. I want to be there at night if Lilly needs me. Besides, you’ll still have to travel. You can’t put your business on hold, and I’ll be there for when you can’t be.”

He nodded, and then his phone chirped. He pulled it out of a front pocket in his pants and looked at it. “I need to take this. Afterward we can talk about furniture.”

“I’ll make a list of what she’ll need while you take your call.”

Adam walked out of the kitchen to the hall to the living room. “Kincaid.”

He listened. “I don’t care what they want. I’m not selling the land. I have my own plans for that property. Tell them I’ll discuss those with them when I return to the office. I’m taking the rest of this week off. I plan on returning to the office next week.”

He listened again. “Thanks, Emily. If anyone calls, take a message. I’ll return their calls when I get back to the office.”

“Yes, thank you. Goodbye.” He shoved the phone back in his pocket and returned to Bree. He sat across from her, picked uphis tea and took a calming sip.. “Now, the furniture. What does she need?”

Bree picked up the list she’d made and read from it. “You’ll want to buy a crib, the playpen, a chest of drawers, and two changing tables, one for the nursery and one for the main floor. You’ll need a nightstand and lamp with a night light. It would probably be a good idea to get a music box to play while she settles down and goes to sleep.”

Adam’s stomach turned at the thought of all the things a baby needed. “I’m thankful you agreed to help me because I can make copious notes about what she needs but I’ll never know what to get if there are choices. Besides, I don’t know where to get all this stuff.”

She chuckled. “That’s just the furniture. She’ll also need diapers and clothes.”

“What kind of diapers and clothes? What clothes does a baby wear?”

Bree appeared to take pity on him. “Come on. We’re going to my friend’s baby boutique. She’ll have everything you need.” Bree reached out and touched his arm. “Trust me.”

“I aways do,” he replied honestly. She was his best friend. He trusted her with his life and now, more importantly, with Lilly’s.

CHAPTER 2

Bree placed Lilly into her car seat and then grabbed her purse from the breakfast bar. “I’ve got her, you just open the car, and I’ll get her strapped in and we can go.”Adam is so clueless. He really does need me.

“Gotcha.” Adam hurried through the front door to the Mercedes in the driveway.

Bree followed at a slower pace because she had Lilly. “Nice car. I didn’t know you had a Mercedes. Except for the Lincoln Navigator, I thought all your vehicles were of the fast variety.”

Adam held the passenger side back door open.

She placed the car seat down and wove the seat belt through the bottom of the equipment, pulling hard to make sure it was secure. Then she stepped back and Adam closed the door.

“I don’t. You’re right I tend to like fast and sleek. The Mercedes is a great car and now that I have Lilly, I might buy one. This one belongs to Emily. I drove the Jag today.”

She held up her hand and chuckled. “You don’t have to say more. I think you’ll find that with Lilly along you’ll be getting a lot more use from your Navigator.”

He ran a hand behind his neck. “Yeah. It will take some adjusting to accommodate the little sweetheart.”

Bree slid into the passenger’s side seat.

Adam pulled her seatbelt out and handed it to her.

She looked up at him and smiled. “Thanks.”