Man on a Mission by Carla Cassidy

Author:Carla Cassidy
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-08-13T16:00:00+00:00

The next three days flew by as April and Brian settled into a comfortable routine. In the daytime Brian worked with Mark in the stables and April planned her activities for guests. After her schedule had been approved by Matthew, she was given a budget and spent much of her time on the phone, ordering a variety of equipment and special foods.

Most evenings Brian and Ricky played together and Mark and April sat at the table and plowed through Marietta’s files. After reading page after page of notes, they would break for the night and sit outside and talk.

It was nearly seven and April stood at the window, watching for Mark’s familiar figure to approach the cottage. It bothered her that she’d come to look forward to his evening visits, that she was discovering he was just as Doreen had described to her—quick-witted, lively and genuinely nice.

She frowned as a car pulled up out front. The back door opened and Brian flew out and into the cottage. “Mom, Ricky’s mom wants to know if I can go to town with them, then spend the night at Ricky’s house. Please, Mom. Please let me.”

April smiled, her heart full as she saw the happiness that lit Brian’s features. There was nothing like a best friend to make a boy’s life right. It warmed April’s heart to know Brian had found a best friend.

“Let me check it with Doreen,” she replied. Together mother and son left the cottage. April greeted Doreen with a friendly smile. “I hear you’ve got big plans for the night.”

Doreen laughed. “Yeah, running errands and doing laundry. I told the boys if they were good while I’m doing all that, we’d maybe go bowling or go to a movie, then Brian could stay the night.”

“Please, Mom,” Brian appealed.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” April asked Doreen.

Doreen shrugged. “Sure. Actually, two are easier than one. You’re really doing me a favor if you let Brian come with us. It will be late when we get back from town, so he might as well just bunk at our house for the night.”

April looked at her son. “What are you waiting for?” She laughed as he scrambled into the back seat with Ricky. The two boys punched each other in their arms, a ritual male-bonding thing April had never understood.

She waved as Doreen pulled away, then turned to see Mark approaching. As always her heart jumped at the sight of him. She’d never seen a man wear a pair of jeans better, had never noticed on another man how the tilt of a hat could suggest such blatant sensuality.

“Where are they off to?” he asked, gesturing to the car that was nothing more than a ball of dust in the distance.

“Town,” she replied, then smiled. “Brian and Ricky have practically become joined at the hip.”

Mark’s face beneath the hat was shadowed from the evening cast of the sun. He frowned, the gesture appearing to deepen the shadows on his features. “It’s good to see the two of them together.

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