title: Mary'S Child (Whose Child?) (Silhouette Intimate Moments)
author:  Terese Ramin 
description: THAT'S MY DAUGHTER? Why did Joe have to return now? Once Hallie had agreed to be a surrogate mother for her best friend and his wife. But that was before Mary was killed and Joe left town. Now Hallie was determined to keep her child. After a year's absence, bounty hunter Joe Martinez couldn't stop staring a t the sight of Hallie cradling his child. Watching her made him realize how beautiful and desirable this woman was. And that he'd loved her since they were knee-high. So how could he make her recognize they were meant to be a family? Whose Child?: Her secret, their child.
zlib_text: **_PROLOGUE_**
  
    
    
  
  _16 years earlier_
  
    
  
  “Take them! Mary take them! You have to go!”
  
  Mary stared down at the two blond children that had been thrust into her arms.
  Her son was staring at her with wide blue eyes that were startlingly wise, and
  more than a little unnerving, for a one year old. His small hands curled
  around his blanket as he watched his mother silently. The other baby was just
  as quiet, her eyes wide and a shocking violet blue that also appeared far to
  knowing for her age. Though Mary had never said anything, the age within the
  children’s eyes had always slightly unnerved her.
  
  Now it _terrified_ her.
  
  She blinked in startled surprise at the man before her, the man that had just
  handed her the children, John. He was her husband, but now, when it was too
  late, she realized that she didn’t know him at all. That she had never known
  him. The thought sent a fresh wave of cold terror down her spine. Goose
  pimples broke out on her flesh; she could barely breathe through 