Affair of Risk by Jayne Ann Krentz (as Jayne Castle)

Author:Jayne Ann Krentz (as Jayne Castle)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: mom 05/31/2014
ISBN: 9780440100546
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1982-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“I think so. The important thing is that you probably shouldn’t risk coming here. It will take Austin a while to find someone else to keep an eye on me, if he decides to

pursue that route. I’ll be careful going out to the park. If I don’t show up by, say, two o’clock, assume I decided there was somebody following and turned back, okay?”

“I’d really like to get out,” Donna admitted. “As I said, Jason is driving me up the walls.”

“Just a normal five-year-old. He needs some outdoor exercise.”

“Why is it that the nonmothers of this world are always such experts on children!” Donna managed a small laugh.

“It’s easy. When you know you can walk away from a kid at any time and leave the problems to someone else, there’s no trick to being objective!”

By the time Kendra reached the lovely formal tea garden, Jason, a lively picture with his cap of shining black hair and his mother’s green eyes, had already fed his entire lunch to the squirrels. He’d gone on to nearly throttle a duck, climb over every miniature bridge in the magnificent five acres, and barely avoid drowning in the numerous reflective pools.

Donna looked up in heartfelt relief when Kendra appeared, walking down one of the tiny paths toward the bench beside the pagoda where the younger woman sat.

“You made it! I was beginning to worry.”

“Hi, Kendra!” Jason paused momentarily to call out before racing back over another miniature bridge. The serene beauty of the garden was lost on him, Kendra decided affectionately, but he took his own brand of pleasure out of the experience.

“Hi, Jason!” she smiled warmly. Once there had been a time when she had thought having a family would be one of her goals in life. She had missed badly the loving interaction she had experienced with her own parents, and a part of her wanted to recreate it with a new generation. Those thoughts had gone underground two years ago, only to resurface recently when little Jason had come back

into her life. She wondered idly if Case Garrett had ever thought of having a family. But families didn’t exactly go with his current life-style, she decided wryly.

“There was no problem,” she remarked to Donna. “I just took a few precautions, like wandering around through the park for a while before coming here to the garden. I’m sure no one followed me. I don’t even think it would have been possible, considering the traffic today!”

Donna smiled in shaky relief. “I know I’m nervous. I wish it were over!”

“It will be soon,” Kendra told her forcefully. “What do you say we get Jason before he attempts to climb the Buddha and take him to the aquarium?”

“Good idea!”

They spent the afternoon awing Jason with the strange and magnificent creatures of the deep housed in the large Steinhart Aquarium, exhausting themselves in a futile attempt to tire Jason. At the end of the day Kendra saw them off in a cab and located her own sleek little sports car in the parking lot.

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