Fortune Found by Victoria Pade

Author:Victoria Pade
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-04-18T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

On Saturday morning. Jessie went to her sister’s house at 7:00 a.m. sharp. While Flint, Coop and eventually Jessie’s father finished construction details and cleanup, Jessie, Kelsey, the kids and Jeannie cleaned, vacuumed, hung curtains and pictures and arranged furniture before using the evening to get things set up for Sunday’s housewarming party.

At about nine o’clock that evening Flint’s services were no longer needed and when Coop let him off the hook from party preparations, Flint went upstairs to shower. By the time he was finished, Kelsey had suggested that Jessie take her four very tired kids home and call it a day, too. Jeannie and Jack assured Jessie that they would stay and help Kelsey and Coop, encouraging Jessie to go.

And when Flint offered his help in taking the kids home and putting them to bed…? Adam literally jumped for joy, Bethany and Braden chimed in with their approval, all four other adults enthusiastically supported the idea, and Jessie was too worn-out to argue.

Not that she had any inclination to, despite the fact that she knew she should. The day had been so busy that she and Flint had barely crossed paths or exchanged glances, and while that should have been just fine, she somehow felt cheated. No amount of reasoning with herself changed that; and while his assistance in putting four kids to bed was still not exactly the sort of togetherness she had in mind, she wasn’t going to pass up the opportunity to have even a few more minutes with him.

So off they went to Jessie’s house, as she tried not to think that any outsider looking in might have thought that they were a family.

She didn’t typically give the kids communal baths, but because it was long past their bedtimes and she was beat, she dispatched the boys to one tub and the girls to the other. Flint kept an eye on the boys, while Jessie ran between bathrooms to actually oversee and aid the bathing.

Flint cleaned out the tubs while Jessie tidied up after the kids.

Then he made a suggestion.

“I can crack the whip with the teeth brushing and read the bedtime story. Why don’t you go shower?”

“Do I look that bad?” she joked. She knew that she did look the worse for wear, that her hair was stringy, the light makeup she’d applied that morning was long gone and her clothes were smudged and dirty.

Flint just grinned in response.

Of course there was the possibility that he had come home with her solely to help with the kids and would disappear the minute those services were rendered. Jessie couldn’t blame him if he did, because he had also worked like a dog all day and evening. And while his shower had washed away the grime and left his hair slightly damp, and he’d put on a clean pair of jeans and a plain white T-shirt, he hadn’t gone so far as to shave the dark shadow of beard that had reappeared as the

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