Be Mine This Christmas by Jean Brashear

Author:Jean Brashear
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Texas
Publisher: Jean Brashear
Published: 2019-02-13T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

Over the next few days, Gib was given no opportunity to have his discussion with Dulcie, but somehow that didn’t bother him too much. He was too busy with her and her children to get impatient about a discussion that grew less and less important than spending time with her.

He’d learned that time alone with her fell into the category of an impossible dream. As a clueless kid, he’d never realized just what it took to mother a brood, especially as a single parent. Best he could tell, she slept four or five hours a night, max, and he worried about her. He tried to take up the slack when she’d let him; meanwhile, he found himself really enjoying the kids, each of them so different. It was a kick to bring them surprises, though after a dressing-down by Dulcie, he quit choosing expensive toys, even though he could easily afford them.

Dulcie couldn’t, and it wasn’t fair to raise their expectations when he wouldn’t always be around, she pointed out. She was right, but the shop and the team seemed a distant universe at the moment.

Which should have worried the living daylights out of him—and did. His life wasn’t here, and it couldn’t be, as long as he was involved in racing.

But everyone from the team owner to the secretaries had been telling him he had to take time off or he would burn out, so that’s what he was doing. Sort of.

Taking Torie to the speedway up in Dallas and giving her an insider’s tour didn’t count as working. Nor did letting Bobby watch a big version of the race car he slept with every night zoom around the track. As for the session with Andre in a quarter midget on a dirt track in San Antonio…that didn’t count, either. He loved what he did for a living, but this…this was fun.

Only Lily turned up her nose at racing-related activities. She was crazy over horses, and a day spent riding at his uncle’s place had her over the moon.

“You have to stop spoiling them,” Dulcie ordered one night, after all of them had finally—finally—gone to bed. It was Saturday, and she’d already graded papers while he’d entertained kids that afternoon, taking them to Rissa’s to ride and play with the barn kittens, as well as Eric, baby Rosie and Samantha, the housekeeper’s daughter.

Dinner was done, ditto the dishes and baths and bed, but Dulcie was rearranging a kitchen cabinet. The woman could not sit still.

“Dulcie—” he began.

She peeked over her shoulder. “Are you leaving?”

Gib smiled. She looked about sixteen, still slim in her blue jeans and an old sweatshirt. “No,” he replied and moved right up behind her.

Dulcie froze. “Gib?” She started to turn, then gripped the counter instead.

And Gib did something he’d been dying to do for days. Carefully, ever so slowly, he drew aside the curls escaping from her topknot and placed his lips right at that spot that had once made her quake.

“Gib—” Her voice was strangled as she shivered.

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