Page 27 of The Sweetest Mistake

“I’ll be back in a few hours. Call if you need me,” Cam said.

As Julia watched her sashay away, she was astonished at how intensely jealous she felt. She never remembered feeling that way with Alec, and he’d been around plenty of other women at med school. But that was different. He hadn’t loved any of those women, nor did he have a child with one of them.

“Sorry about that,” Connor said after Cam left.

“Sorry about what?” Julia said, sitting down on the floor beside him. It was a warm spring day, but she didn’t think it was miniskirt weather. Julia wore cropped jeans and a red crew neck T-shirt, and it struck her that she probably looked more like a mom than Cam did.

“You know,” he said as he stacked up the blocks again.

“No, I don’t. Tell me.”

“Cam. She dresses kind of…”

“Slutty?”

Connor lifted his brows and started laughing. “I was going to say provocatively, but that’ll work.”

“Has she always dressed like that?” It was hard to believe that Cam was fitting into such skimpy clothes after having given birth five months ago. Julia never expected to be so lucky. Of course, even if she were as slim as Cam, she wouldn’t dress like that.

“Yeah,” Connor said, refusing to meet her eyes.

“Can I ask you something?”

“Sure,” he said warily.

“What did you ever see in her? Besides the obvious, I mean.”

Scratching the back of his head, he said, “Honestly? I’m not sure.”

“So, it was the obvious, then—the hair, the body, the image.” She wasn’t sure if that made her feel better or worse, because she was the exact opposite—a blend of her Caucasian and Asian parents. Julia had inherited her dad’s silky black hair and her mom’s dark-brown eyes and petite, curvy figure. She’d come to accept her curvy body long ago and knew she would never be described as “skinny,” but she was okay with that. At least, she was up until now.

“Do you really want to talk about this, Jules? Cam and I were such a long time ago.”

“So were me and Alec, but I told you all about him.”

Sighing, Connor picked up Ava and held her in his lap, and for a moment, Julia was distracted by what an attractive picture they made. Wait until Harper got a load of this. She’d probably start snapping photos the minute she walked in the door!

“What good does it do to talk about it? It’s not like I was excited to hear all about doctor boy.”

She laughed. “Doctor boy? Is that the best you could come up with?”

He shrugged. “I can think of a few other choice words…”

“Hmm. So, am I just supposed to ignore the fact that Cam is a beautiful woman who bore your child?”

“Can you?”

“Not a chance.”

“Damn it!”

She laughed again but scolded, “Not in front of the baby.”

“Uh-oh,” Connor said.

“What’s wrong?”

“I think she’s wet.”