Luck of the Draw (A Betting on Romance Novel Book 1) by Cheri Allan

Author:Cheri Allan [Allan, Cheri]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

“THEY HAD BALLOONS! AND AMINALS! And trucks!” Liam said excitedly as he zipped around the cottage’s living room, his dark hair plastered with sweat to his forehead. “An’ I gots ice cream with splinkles!”

Kate narrowly avoided getting knocked over by the whirling dervish that resembled her son and dumped the contents of Jim’s cap onto the kitchen counter. Nana unwrapped a chocolate chew and popped it in her mouth.

“Can I have one, too?” asked Liam.

Kate shooed him away. “You’ve had enough sugar to last you a few more hours. Go run around while I get things cleaned up.”

She pulled out a heat-softened candy from Jim’s hat and snuck it into the trash. “This chocolate will be impossible to clean out.”

“It’s on the inside,” Nana said breezily, “I wouldn’t worry about it.

“I know, but Jim was nice enough to collect it and not just let Liam stuff his face with whatever he could fit in it.” Kate eyed her grandmother. “I thought you were only going for ice cream. How did Liam end up with twelve candy wrappers in his pocket?”

Nana snitched another candy and shrugged. “I told him not to overdo.”

“Right. Like a three year-old is going to exhibit self-control. Nana. Admit it. You’re hopelessly indulgent with him.”

“I’m the only great-grandparent he’s got. Lord knows I won’t be here forever. He ought to enjoy me while he has me.”

Kate ran a sponge under the faucet. “You’re lucky he didn’t throw up on your shoes.”

“Like when Randy was supposedly watching him on Easter?”

Too true. And Kate would have been left to clean up—again. Randy had always treated her like his personal hazmat team. Whatever mess he made, he expected her to swoop in and clean it up. Mend fences. Wipe her brush of vanilla paint over all his garish mistakes and make them right again.

The problem was, somewhere along the line, she’d taken that same vanilla brush and run right over herself.

Kate stopped scrubbing Jim’s cap and looked at the blur of brown on the inside rim. Deliberately squeezing out the sponge, she set the hopelessly stained cap on the dish drainer to dry.

She wasn’t going to make herself Jim’s hazmat crew.

She wasn’t going to be that Kate ever again.

“Don’t eat too much candy. I’m going to see if I can settle Liam for his nap.”

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