Love Walks In by Chris Keniston

Author:Chris Keniston
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indie House Publishing
Published: 2016-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

Never had a week seemed so long. Mike had no idea how the sitter was going to work out at nighttime, but he hoped that Brian’s familiarity with their neighbor Liz would make her presence in their house less stressful for him. Just in case, they’d done a short test run of sorts. A few days ago Liz came over and stayed with Brian while Mike ran to the grocery store for an hour or so. When he’d returned, all was well. The shift to a new person keeping Brian company had been easy. Mike didn’t understand if this had anything to do with the puberty theory, but, even though Brian still needed routine—a precise routine—his reactions when things veered off course seemed less dramatic. Mike wasn’t fooling himself into thinking that Brian’s fixated tendencies would simply go away, but, for whatever reasons, change was at least a little easier for his son to handle. And that was a good thing.

The address Annette had given him was in a more secluded neighborhood. And more affluent. Not that he was surprised by that. It hadn’t taken him long to realize Annette was a stay-at-home mom, with a full-time household manager-slash-nanny, depending on what kind of help was needed. Any widow with that kind of resources wasn’t likely to be living in a trailer park, and yet he was still a little surprised, and even awed, at the massive modern home at the top of the long drive. He was no slouch in the income department. Karen had been a stay-at-home mom, and they had still managed to live a very comfortable life and to build a nice nest egg for Brian’s future. But there was no way he and Annette would have ever traveled in the same circles anyplace but here in Paradise.

Swallowing hard, he shook his mind clear. Tonight wasn’t a social-economic forum; it was dinner. With a nice lady. A very nice lady. One he wanted to get to know better. Much better.

Every time he considered how far under his skin Annette Deluca had settled in, it surprised the crap out of him. Lots of people had said time would heal all wounds. He’d fall in love again. Live a full and happy life. And with each passing year he’d been more convinced every one of those Pollyannas were full of shit. Until now. Until now. Where Annette’s house had failed to intimidate him, the emotions surging inside him—at the realization that he was fully capable of falling in love with Annette Deluca—were almost enough to send him running home to Florida. To the familiar, the cold, and the empty. Almost. Instead he prayed he’d made the right choices for tonight. He desperately did not want their first date to be their last.

Parking the car in front of the massive entryway, Mike sucked in a deep breath, grabbed the small bouquet of fresh blooms, and hoped, once again, that he didn’t look too lame bringing flowers. The wide-eyed

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