Love at First Laugh: Eight Romantic Novellas Filled with Love, Laughter, and Happily Ever After by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2017-03-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 3

Griffin parked on the street to his historic row house, but didn’t get out. Three days had passed since he enlisted Kate to be Cora’s caregiver. Cora Lee, that’s what Kate called her. He didn’t mind. Giselle had given her daughter his middle name. So she must have forgiven him. But why never show up on his door? He’d never know. Not really. But the Sweet Lord did. According to Kate. Any time that woman came up dumbfounded that’s what she said.

They’d shopped for baby supplies, baby-proofed the house. He’d leased a Jaguar XJ X351. Much more family-sized. The nursery furniture had been delivered and put together yesterday while he was at work.

Dad was going to blow a gasket when he found out what Griffin had agreed to. But when Regina Jones had brought Cora into his home and he’d laid eyes on her, he had to do it. He had to at least take her temporarily. She was his spitting image. It was startling how much. And she’d grinned and he had to admit she was the cutest thing he’d ever seen.

But he only agreed to a month. Shouldn’t have agreed to that, but he owed Giselle something. And it would give them time to set up her trust—maybe he would be able to know the adoptive parents. If he got the contract for the new resort in St. Thomas, he was leaving in a month. Dragging a baby with him wasn’t an option. Leaving her with a nanny for a full month wasn’t either. That wasn’t right.

He’d already been working around the clock on this pitch and getting the blue prints for the resort perfect. Kate had been on Cora duty more than he had. Giselle wouldn’t want that for her daughter. He didn’t either. History was already repeating itself. If he was being honest, he might have been purposely staying away these past few days. No way he could attach to the kid.

Kate hadn’t asked too many questions, but she’d mentioned the new permanent nanny coming, and he’d let her believe there was one to avoid her disapproving glares. And she would. In three days, he’d learned Kate Lambert didn’t pull punches with her words and they flowed freely and often. It might be a jerk move to her, but she didn’t understand the emptiness that came with absentee parents. Cora needed a home full of love. Not an empty shell of one like he and Giselle had.

Griffin climbed out his car. Checked his watch. It was late. Hopefully, Cora would sleep all night. The first night she wouldn’t and Kate didn’t get home until after two. But she’d insisted on leaving. No sleeping over with a serial killer. He’d been paying her cab fare, not wanting her to take the bus that late, and he’d given her a house key.

Serial killer.

He laughed all the way up his steps. The woman made him laugh a lot. Which was crazy since the past three days had been the most chaotic of his life.

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