One Big Happy Family by Andrea Edwards

Author:Andrea Edwards [Andrea Edwards]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781459280847
Publisher: Harlequin

Chapter Seven

Sam tossed the last of the bread onto the water. “That’s it, guys. End of the handouts for today.”

The swans took it well, just turning and gliding back into the growing shadows around the lake. The ducks were harder to convince. They kept pushing and squabbling and looking for more food.

“You’re out of luck. Sometimes you just have to accept that things aren’t the way you want them.”

Sam knew that all too well herself. Take her and Kevin. Obviously, things weren’t going the way she wanted them to. He hadn’t called like he said he would.

Maybe she should just be glad that her life was still totally hers. No distractions. No reason to wait until eight in the evening to eat dinner. She turned away from the lake and started up the slope to the house. It was getting dark. Time to—

A sedan was pulling into the drive. It stopped and Kevin got out. Her heart did a crazy leap and her feet moved a bit faster, even though she tried to hold them at the same speed.

“Hi,” he called over to her.

“Hi.”

He was still dressed in his suit, though minus his tie, and his eyes looked weary. She felt an overpowering urge to take care of him.

“You look beat,” she said. “You just get in?”

He nodded. “I thought we had a date.”

“I thought we had a tentative one,” she said and took his hand. “Come on inside. Have you eaten yet?”

“I thought we had a dinner date.”

“It’s almost nine,” she reminded. “I assumed you hadn’t gotten back or you’d changed your mind or something and eaten ages ago.”

He frowned, looking hurt. “It’s just past eight-thirty,” he said. “And I wouldn’t have changed my mind and not let you know.”

“Well, it wasn’t like it was a definite thing.”

“I should have called,” he said. “I’m sorry.”

“No big deal.” They went on into the living room, and then into the kitchen. “The kitchen’s a mess. I’ve been painting the office and I’ve moved everything into the kitchen. Our banker’s here, Dad.”

Her father looked up from the papers he was working on on the kitchen table. “Don’t bring him in yet,” her father said, snatching up the computer printouts and putting them in the cold oven. “I’m not done cooking the books.”

“You’ll have to excuse him.” Sam involuntarily rolled her eyes. “He thinks he’s a comedian.”

“Maybe I’d better look at your accounts,” Kevin said.

“Good idea,” Sam replied.

She pulled the computer printouts from the oven and laid them on the table. Kevin pulled out a chair and sat down while Sam leaned back against the kitchen counter.

“Greatness is never appreciated,” her father said. “I’ll leave you two alone.” With a broad wink at Sam, he went out into the living room.

The silence grew louder and louder. “We’ve got some leftover pot roast,” she told Kevin. “Want me to warm it up for you?”

“That would be great.”

While he flipped through the pages, she stuck a plate of the pot roast into the microwave. Their accounting system was a standard small-business software package and not all that complex.

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