Dream Wedding by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-11-29T08:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWO

CASSIE PULLED INTO the driveway of the Lawford house at exactly 8:25 the next morning. She assumed that Ryan would expect promptness on her part and she’d promised to arrive by 8:30. After parking her car to the left of the garage, she popped the trunk and pulled out her suitcase, along with a bag of toys she’d borrowed from the preschool. She’d stopped by there on her way over to pick up a few of Sasha’s favorites.

I can do this, she told herself as she stared up at the imposing facade of the house. I can get through the next several weeks without making a fool of myself.

Cassie smiled. Of course she could get through her period of temporary employment without doing something completely humiliating. The real question was would she? She started up the walkway. She didn’t really have a choice in the matter. She’d said she would help and she would. The fact that Ryan made her want to hyperventilate when they were in the same room was something she was going to have to deal with on her own time.

She was still ten feet from the door when it was flung open and the man who had haunted her thoughts, and humiliatingly enough, her dreams for the past fourteen or so hours, appeared on the porch.

“Thank God,” he said, hurrying toward her and taking her suitcase. “I didn’t think you’d ever get here.”

She glanced at her watch. “I’m on time.”

“I know. It’s not that.” He hesitated before stepping back into the house, as if he were an escaped soul being forced to return to hell. “We’re not having a good morning.”

Cassie gave him a quick once-over to check out his appearance. The poor man did look a little harried. There was a juice stain on his light blue shirt, one of his athletic shoes had come untied. He’d cut himself shaving and his hair was mussed. All this and it was still relatively early in the day.

“A problem with Sasha?” she asked sympathetically, knowing the toddler was thirty-plus pounds of pure energy and motion.

He closed the door behind her and set down her suitcase. “The worst. She’s been crying.”

Cassie had to bite her lower lip to keep from laughing. While she was sorry that Sasha was having a tough start to her day, Ryan had uttered the statement with all the solemnity and worry of a man talking about flood, famine and pestilence.

“It happens,” Cassie said, working hard to keep her expression serious.

“But how do you make it stop?” He ran his hand through his hair and shook his head. “I’m completely at a loss. She looks at me with those big tears rolling down her face and I panic. I’ve told her I’ll give her anything she wants if she just stops crying.”

“You might want to rethink that philosophy,” Cassie said. “It could get expensive in years to come. Plus it’s never a good idea to give away power in the parent/child relationship. They’re going to learn fifty different ways to play you as it is.

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