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The Sheepshifter’s Daughter*
His name was Randy. He came in the night, his devil-eyes flashing under the full moonlight. She succumbed to temptation. He left before morning.
A month later, she felt the quickening. Should she tell him? No. He’d left her. She would have his secret baby. Even if he offered up his billions and billions of dollars to help support the child, she would refuse…because he didn’t love her. Their baby might starve, but at least she had her pride. She and the baby could live on that.
Years passed. One moonlit night he returned, his face drawn and his devil-eyes haunted, as if he’d spent years missing her. She knew he hadn’t. She’d seen pictures in the tabloids. He had a thousand mistresses.
Then he looked down at their child, and even though she’d tried to conceal their baby with a filmy net veil, she saw the moment when he recognized the truth. He knew! Their devil-eyes were the same.
“You have to marry me now,” he said. “That’s my kid.”
“No! No!” she said. “You left me without a word! And you have a thousand mistresses!”
“I’ll blackmail you and take the child, because I have billions of dollars.”
“Then I have no choice!” she sobbed. “But I won’t sleep with you!”
He gave an arrogant toss of his head. “I will have you tonight!”
And he did.
AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER
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*Yes, I know it’s a goat. But “sheepshifter” is funnier.
**Why are there so many “The X’s Daughter” or “The X’s Wife” books out there now? Do these women not have their own identities? BLAH. Is it the fault of “The Time-Traveler’s Wife”?
June 19, 2012 @ 10:43 pm
Yeah, the title business gets my goat too. (SORRY! lol Couldn’t resist) Bad puns aside, when I see book titles like The Time Traveler’s Wife, The General’s Daughter, Death’s Daughter.. imo, I get the impression they’re trying to convey that the lady in question “belongs” to said titular character. It strikes me as a shortcut way to name a book, but it bums me out that often times women get relegated to that status of being with or belonging to someone. Meh.
Was the kid’s name Billy? LOL Sorry again! Great picture & story though! 😀
June 19, 2012 @ 10:59 pm
Puns are more than welcome here.
And, yep — that’s my irritation with the titles, too. It always seems that the men in their lives have the interesting occupations … and the character just happens to be the daughter/wife. Sigh.
June 20, 2012 @ 4:22 am
Awesome. My Mho would approve 😉
June 20, 2012 @ 6:19 am
Bwa-haha! I love that the sheep’s name is Randy. It seems very appropriate.
June 20, 2012 @ 6:28 am
““You have to marry me now,” he said. “That’s my kid.””
My favorite line.
June 20, 2012 @ 6:46 am
I understand there’s specialized therapy for that….
June 20, 2012 @ 8:00 am
Brilliant!
June 20, 2012 @ 1:43 pm
You really know how to weave a wild and wooly yarn! What a purl of a story. Of course, I scarf down everything you write.
June 21, 2012 @ 1:45 am
LOL… this was one of the funniest things I’ve ever read! Made my day!! True that some of the stories we read are as “sheepish” as this was!! Haha :))
June 22, 2012 @ 10:08 am
Years ago when I worked in customer service, I received a phone call from when of our customers, as I was taking his info I asked him his name, “Randy” he said, “Randy Knight,
K N I G H T”. I spit out my coffee, trying not to laugh in his ear, fortunately he laughed too.
June 25, 2012 @ 3:09 am
Can I have Alex Skarsgard as the baby’s father? *sigh* http://teddyhilton.com/2012-05-30-alexander-skarsgard-modeling-lamb
July 3, 2012 @ 6:40 am
Mmm… it reminds me of a Harlequin romance I once read.