Nancy Herkness by Shower Of Stars

Author:Shower Of Stars [Stars, Shower Of]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Children should be allowed to be children as long as possible. Every effort should be made to shield them from cruel situations and harsh choices that an adult would find difficult to face. It is the parents’ responsibility to protect their children even as they teach them the wisdom and judgment that will enable the young people in their charge to make these hard decisions.

There had been nothing like this in her own essay. Every instinct said this was a statement from the heart. Something very bad had happened in Jack’s childhood. She finished the essay and put the papers down on her lap. “Very thorough, if a little bland.”

He smirked. “I’m doing my best to fade into the background.”

Charlie looked at the length of him stretched out in her chair, at the luminously blue eyes, at the shift of muscle under fabric as he leaned over to set the plate down on the table, and burst out laughing. “You have about as much chance of doing that as the fireball we saw.”

“Now how should I take that?” he asked, folding his arms across his chest. “There’s the blaze of glory, the brilliance and the heat,” he drawled the last word. “On the other hand, the glory is brief and generally ends in total destruction.”

“You could take it to mean that you’re noticeable.”

“Thus grounding my flights of fancy.”

“There’s another small matter I want to discuss,” Charlie said, brushing aside his caprice. She didn’t want him charming her just now. “Sallyanne will be expecting us to sleep in the same room since we’re married. I’ll use the fold-out couch in the living room so you can have my bed. But I won’t fold it out until after she’s in bed for the night.”

“A preemptive strike,” he said almost to himself. “A gentleman always takes the couch. You can keep your own bed.”

Charlie pushed aside her recollection of the last time he’d played the gentleman. “I have to get up early to get her ready for school, so the couch makes more sense for me.”

“I only sleep late when I’ve been up meteor watching. Don’t argue, sugar, unless you want to join me on the couch.” He stood up and stretched, exactly as he had on the morning after the first meteor shower.

Charlie locked her gaze resolutely on the tray she was loading with plates and glasses. She picked it up and held it in front of her like a shield. “Would you like to come with me to pick up Sallyanne?” she asked.

“No, let’s have the introduction here. I want to be able to talk with her face-to-face, not in a schoolyard or over a car seat.”

She nodded her approval and carried the tray into the kitchen. He walked in behind her, and the kitchen walls suddenly shrank around them. Charlie put the tray down with a clatter and looked at her watch. “I’ll do the dishes later. I should drop off Major and get going to the school.”

He picked up a glass and pulled open the dishwasher door.

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