Mick Sinatra: Love and Shadows by Mallory Monroe

Author:Mallory Monroe [Monroe, Mallory]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Austin Brook Publishing
Published: 2017-05-18T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIFTEEN

Roz was at home, on the floor in the playroom with the twins, as she watched them attempt to put together big, fat puzzle pieces. So far Jacqueline had managed to put a couple pieces in their proper place. Duke, on the other hand, had attempted to eat them, throw them, bang on them as if they were drum sticks, and feed them to his mother. The two nannies in the room smiled. “He may not be the bookish one, ma’am,” one of them said.

Roz laughed. “Don’t underestimate him,” she said. “Most people don’t think his father is brainy, either. But Mick has plenty sense. Book sense, too. When Duke learns, he’s going to beat his sister putting this shit together.”

The younger nanny blushed and looked at the older one. She was always surprised by the colorful language Roz and her husband used around their children. Didn’t they understand the damage it could cause, she once asked the older one?

“What damage?” the older nanny responded at the time. “These are their children. We work for them, and we ain’t working for the Brady Bunch. You understood that when you took this job. Stop whining or I’ll request they replace you.”

The younger nanny begged her not to do so, and promised to drop the complaints. But she loved Duke and Jackie and wanted only the best for them. She sometimes wondered if she was the only one who did.

Mick arrived home just as Duke picked up another puzzle piece and threw it, hitting Mick on the leg when he did.

“Ouch,” Mick said with a grin, and all of them turned to him.

When Jackie saw her father, she cried Daddy, stood up with nothing but love and determination on her gorgeous brown face, and waddled to him. With her arms lifted up the entire time, she ran, but fell on her romp twice, before she reached him. Mick felt a swell of deep emotion when he saw his daughter make such a valiant effort to get to him. He lifted her in his arms when she arrived, and held her with the kind of love in his heart that young nanny would be clueless about.

But showing where his priorities really were, Duke was too busy trying to feed his mother a puzzle piece instead of any all-out welcome of his father. “Daddy’s here,” Roz would have to say before Duke would give him any attention.

Roz, in shorts and t-shirt, sat up, Indian-style, when Duke left her side and went to his father.

“Hey, Boss,” Mick said to his son as he made his way to him.

But even as Mick lifted Duke into his arms and seemed genuinely pleased to see his children, Roz could feel a burden that he bore that nobody else detected. And when Charles came in behind Mick, and the children eagerly went into Big Daddy’s arms with that excitement they always showed when their favorite uncle came to visit, she stood up. Something was wrong. And it had more to do than land grabs and dock hits.

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