Marriage in Six Easy Lessons by Mollie Molay

Author:Mollie Molay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eight

No sooner had the elevator reached Riverview’s underground parking lot and they exited than April’s cell phone rang again.

“Aren’t you going to answer that?” Lucas inquired when April pointedly ignored the ring.

“No, I’m not. It’s probably Tom again, set on reminding me to start working on the debates,” April answered with a scowl. “He isn’t the type to give up easily.” Her chocolate-induced euphoria faded at the reminder that trouble could always be just a phone call away.

“What if the caller isn’t Tom?”

April stopped in midstride. The only people who had her private cell phone number were her mother, Tom Eldridge, Rita and Lili. With her mother away visiting April’s oldest brother, Mitchell, in Florida and providing the caller wasn’t Tom, that left Rita or Lili. “Maybe you’re right,” she said reluctantly as she lifted the small phone out of her purse, flipped it open and held it to her ear. “April here.”

She listened for a moment. “Sure. No, it’s no problem, Lili.” As she spoke, April handed her car keys to Sullivan and motioned to him to go ahead and click the car door open. “Whatever I had planned for tonight can wait until tomorrow. No, honestly, I’m sure. No, it’s no problem. Yes, I know you’re in the emergency room at Chicago General. Try to relax and don’t worry. We’ll be right over.”

April folded the cell phone and dropped it in her purse. “Something’s just come up with Lili and her little boy, Paul.”

“I heard. What happened to him?” Lucas took the keys without further comment. He knew that whatever had happened to the boy, it had to be serious, or April would never have handed over the keys without an argument.

“Would you believe Paul fell downstairs chasing his sister when they were leaving the dentist’s office!” April said as she slid into the passenger side of the car. “Lili said he may have broken his arm. They’re at the hospital right now.”

Lucas murmured his sympathy. “Did that once myself in grade school. The kid’s lucky to have his mother with him. At the time I broke mine, my mother was off somewhere ‘finding’ herself. I didn’t get much sympathy from my father.”

April saw Lucas’s lips set in a hard line. Without a loving, attentive mother in his life, no wonder he had such a poor opinion of women. “That must have been hard on you.”

“It was, although having my classmates autograph the cast made me feel like a hero.” He smiled at the long-ago memory. “How old is the kid, anyway?”

“He and his twin sister, Paulette, just turned six. Paul is like a miniature tornado and takes advantage of her. I suppose most little girls have that problem with boys until they grow up and expect equal treatment.” She glanced at Sullivan. “Judging from your article, I gather you didn’t know that.”

Lucas’s eyebrows rose. “Back to the mating-game article, are we? I thought we were talking about a six-year-old.”

April grinned. “How could I forget? But you’re right.

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