Daddy in the Making by Crystal Green

Author:Crystal Green [Green, Crystal]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance, Harlequin
ISBN: 0373657013
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

During the game, Rita had needed to sneak out and see to a few small matters in the hotel.

Conn hadn’t seemed to mind, though, even if he’d made her sit down and rest afterward, bringing her some herbal tea from the kitchen and cleaning the dishes they’d used. Meanwhile, he’d also helped with Kristy when she’d woken up from her nap. He’d sat at the table with her and Rita as the little girl ate her tostada, and they’d chatted about Vi’s wedding as well as all the things Kristy wanted to be when she grew up—a ballerina, a majorette and, this week, an inventor like Phineas and Ferb.

When they’d finally called it a night, he stood by the door. Kristy was in her room, drawing a picture for “Aunt Violet” for when she got back from her honeymoon.

“You know I’ll be getting in touch with you again,” he said quietly enough so that Kristy wouldn’t hear.

Rita wasn’t sure whether she should be encouraging Conn or saying a leave-no-doubt good-night to him. Her heart still told her one thing, her head another.

“In fact,” he said, “how about you clear tomorrow night off your schedule? Get a sitter for Kristy, arrange not to work.”

She didn’t reveal that Monday was her usual night off. Still, as the owner, she was always on call. “What do you have in mind?”

Conn gave her that heart-spinning grin. “More talking, of course.”

Right. He wanted to prove he could be reliable. And that was just how she wanted it.

Of course.

They’d said one of their awkward goodbyes again, with Rita avoiding temptation and closing the door behind him. And for the rest of the night, after she’d put Kristy to bed, then gone to her own big, empty one, she had slept restlessly.

Her mind was just too full of whats and hows: What was she going to do about Conn? How and when was she going to explain her relationship with him to Kristy?

She couldn’t even quite define it herself at this point.

In the morning, the questions still hovered, but there wasn’t much she could do about it as she manned the front desk and troubleshot for the few customers who were here during Thanksgiving week. She even called her sister, asking her to watch Kristy for a few hours tonight.

“Are you going out with that cowboy?” Kim asked over the phone.

Rita had told her that, yes, she was going out with the cowboy and she would tell Kim all about it later. She and her sister were close, but sometimes Kim, who would rather be hanging out on the ranch than fiddling around with a relationship, didn’t quite get matters of the heart. Besides, Kim and Nick were leaving town on business tomorrow afternoon, so why start this up with her sister right now?

It could wait until after the holiday.

The day seemed to take forever to go by. One reason was that Rita was keeping her eye out for Conn, who had told her he would be checking in to her hotel today.

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