Daddy Daycare by Laura Marie Altom

Author:Laura Marie Altom
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

At eight that night, after Beulah had left from another not entirely unpleasant visit—especially seeing how she’d brought more pickles and a homemade carrot cake—Travis had just shut down his computer, then rammed a frozen lasagna in the oven when a knock sounded on the front door.

Libby sat in her high chair awaiting her dinner—not very patiently, judging by the fitful cries coming from her pouty lips.

“Hold your horses,” he said, closing the oven before heading for the front door. “Be with you in just a sec.”

Not that he’d become an expert or anything, but he was almost getting the hang of the whole domesticity thing, although it would be considerably easier once the new appliances he’d ordered came in.

Thank god the local Sears—a catalogue-only affair—seemed to have never heard of Beulah, meaning they’d been all too happy to accept his check for the new appliances the store had promised to deliver and install by the end of next week.

Kit and his other coworkers—not to mention his friends and business associates he kept in touch with back home—had pointed out that he was spending an awful lot of money on the old place, seeing how he’d only be around until after the judge declared the will rock-solid. But the way he saw it, the old place needed sprucing up. Since there wasn’t anything better to do—other than dwell on Kit’s pending nuptials—it was at least a mentally healthy way to pass time. Not only that—what better tribute to his sister than to finish the restoration job she’d so lovingly started?

“Hi,” Kit said when he opened the door. She’d changed from her navy work slacks and yellow blouse into hip-hugging jeans and a sleeveless halter that showed way more skin than state regulations should allow when it came to preschool-teacher apparel. In her hands she held a foil-covered glass casserole dish.

Waaaaaaggggggghhhhh!

“If this is a bad time,” she said, “I’ll be happy to—”

“Come on in,” he said, giving himself a mental thump for being so ridiculously happy to see her—and not just because what she carried smelled warm and cheesy. Whenever he was around her, he felt almost normal again. Like his old self—whoever that was. “I was just putting dinner in the oven, but what you have smells better.”

“If you already have a meal planned,” she said, “you can freeze this for another time.”

Waaaaaaaaaaaa!

“No way,” he said, already heading toward the kitchen. “Come on in. In case you couldn’t tell, the princess is throwing a bit of a fit.”

“Anything I can help with?”

“You know girls…” He cast a grin over his shoulder. “Probably boy trouble.”

“No doubt.” She set her dish on the empty counter. In anticipation of the kitchen contractors, the whole kitchen was pretty bare. “What’s going on in here?”

He told her about his latest plans for the place and how before the new appliances arrived a lot of other items such as floors, countertops and cabinets needed to be replaced.

“During construction, what’re you going to do about food?” she asked, unlatching Libby’s seat belt to tug her out of the high chair and into her arms.

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