A Younger Man by Linda Turner

Author:Linda Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2006-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

By the time he pulled into Natalie’s driveway an hour later, the boys were chatting with him like old friends. They helped him carry everything from pizzas to ice cream to three different varieties of canned soup and potpies into the kitchen, and they were so excited, they could hardly contain themselves. When Natalie discovered what he’d bought, she would, no doubt, accuse him of spoiling them all, but what was wrong with that? She obviously lived on a strict budget—she had to since her ex was a deadbeat—so that didn’t allow her the chance to indulge the boys very much. What would it hurt to buy them a treat? They were good kids. He didn’t think he could have taken as good care of his mom if she’d gotten sick when he was in kindergarten. They deserved a little reward.

“Okay, guys, how about a movie?” he said after putting the ice cream and pot pies in the freezer of the refrigerator.

“The Lion King!” they cried in unison.

“Works for me,” he said with a grin. Spying the DVD player on the top shelf of the entertainment center, he frowned. “Does your mom let you put the movies in yourself or does she do it?”

“No, we can do it,” Tommy assured him.

Working as a team, the boys plopped their pizzas on the coffee table and pulled a footstool over to the entertainment center. In five seconds flat Tommy had the movie in and Harry worked the remote control. The second the movie came on, the boys were totally engrossed. Never taking their eyes from the television screen, they reached blindly for their pizzas and sank down onto the living room rug to watch their movie.

That was easy enough, Max thought with a grin, and headed back to the kitchen. Not surprisingly, it was a mess. The sink was overflowing with dishes, the trashcan was in desperate need of being emptied, and the counters and kitchen table were loaded down with more dirty dishes, empty food containers that wouldn’t fit in the trash and clean pots from the dishwasher that hadn’t been put away. The place couldn’t have looked much worse if it’d been hit by a tornado.

Taking it all in in a single glance, Max had no difficulty imaging what it must have been like for Natalie when the boys were sick. She obviously hadn’t had time to put the dishes away, let alone clean, before she, herself, came down with the same stomach bug. If the boys were half as sick as she was, it was no wonder the place was a disaster area.

When she was feeling better, Max knew she would be mortified that he’d seen her house in such condition, but it couldn’t be helped. And if she was anything like his mother, the last thing she’d want an outsider to do was come in and clean her house—which was why he had no intention of telling her what he intended to do until after the fact. Rolling up his sleeves, he unloaded the dishwasher and went to work.

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