Daddy's Angel by Annette Broadrick

Author:Annette Broadrick
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-04-07T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

“Why didn’t somebody tell me what it’s like? I had no idea, no warning, nothing to prepare me. I—”

“Noelle—”

“By the way, how old am I?”

“You’re ageless. Noelle—”

“That’s what I thought. I mean, if I’d ever bothered to give it a thought. But all of a sudden I’m thinking about such things—earthly things—a great deal. Like, how old I am, and how I look, and if Bret finds me attractive—he certainly kisses me like he finds me attractive—and I find him very attractive. I can’t believe how attractive. I mean, the most subtle things about him start my heart racing as though I’ve been running for hours. Take his hair, for instance. I find myself spending hours of my day while I’m cleaning house or washing clothes or preparing meals, wondering exactly how you’d describe his hair. It’s so thick and it’s all these different colors, like taffy and wheat and cinnamon and straw. Straw. I never would have thought that straw was a beautiful color but oh, on Bret it looks wonderful, really amazingly so.

“And his eyes. I can’t stop gazing into his eyes. At first I thought they were brown. Well, maybe a light brown. Then I realized they were the same exact, identical color of well-aged whiskey—almost like topaz, but with swirling depths in them. They even change color according to his mood. When he’s tired they’re golden and when he’s angry they get darker, almost like they’re flashing sparks. Sometimes, when he looks at me a certain way, they go all liquid and molten. That look makes me go weak in my knees. It really does. I’ve heard the expression many times but I’ve never experienced the feeling before. I’m telling you right now, it’s the weirdest feeling I’ve had in a long time. Let’s face it, I’ve just gotten used to having knees and now they’re already acting up on me.

“The thing is, I don’t know what to do. Well, of course I know what I’m supposed to be doing. My assignment was all very clear and concise. And it isn’t as though I haven’t always loved Bret because I have. But this is different. I mean, really different. And it’s confusing me. I’ve been daydreaming around the house, rerunning the dreams he has about me every night, trying to imagine what it would feel like if he really were doing those things to me. I’m telling you here and now being human isn’t anything like I thought it was at all.”

“What did you think it was like?”

“Going around making really stupid mistakes, needing somebody to guide you through them. Well, from my new perspective, they don’t look so stupid, and most of all they don’t look like mistakes.”

“Would you care to give me an example?”

She thought for a moment. “Well, the other day Travis told me that he wished that I would stay with them all year-round instead of just during the Christmas season. He said that he wished I could be his mommy.”

“Not a very surprising wish for a young child who has never had a mother.

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