Ooh Baby, Baby Part 2 by Diana Whitney

Author:Diana Whitney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Peggy hunched over the handwritten ledger, correlating the scrawled ink figures and the colorful columns on the computerized spreadsheet. Grasping the mouse, she expertly clicked, scrolled, compared, until a mismatched total caught her eye. “Here it is.”

Sue Anne swiveled away from the dispatch center and propelled her wheeled steno chair over to the computer desk where Peggy was working. “You found the error?”

“This debit entry was keypunched as a credit, that’s all. I’ll just reverse the sign—” her fingers clicked over the keyboard “—and voila! The books balance.”

“Girl, you’re a certified genius.”

“Actually, accounting isn’t particularly difficult once you get the hang of it,” Peggy mumbled, studying a rather bizarre note on the expenditures column of Conway Cab’s internal ledger. She would have asked about it if Travis hadn’t burst through the door, his eyes rounded in shock.

“The twins are in the living room,” he blurted. “Danny’s feeding them white stuff out of a bottle!”

Sue Anne gave her brother a wry stare. “Hello to you, too.”

Ignoring his sister, Travis crossed the room in two strides, slipped a proprietary arm around Peggy’s shoulder and brushed a kiss on her cheek. “Hi, honey,” he murmured against her skin. “So, what’s with this bottle business?”

“It’s formula,” Peggy said without glancing up from the monitor. “They’re growing so fast, the doctor suggested a supplement. If they do well on it, I’ll be able to wean them in a month or so.”

Travis was clearly horrified. “Wean them? They’re only eight weeks old.”

“Wean them off breast milk,” Peggy explained. “Words cannot express how excited I am by the prospect of actually wearing a bra without flaps, and since I must eventually venture into the world to earn a living, it would be nice if I didn’t have to worry about wet spots on the lapel of my power suit.”

“It does kind of spoil the administrative image,” Sue Anne agreed.

Travis, flushing to his hairline, was clearly flustered by the open discussion of such an intimately female matter. He cleared his throat, wiped a forearm across his brow and quickly changed the subject. “So, how did things go at city hall?”

Peggy and Sue Anne exchanged a telling look. “Not wonderful,” she admitted. “My job is no more.”

He frowned. “They fired you?”

“Technically, they downsized me out of existence but the result is the same.” Peggy sighed and folded her arms. Her savings was nearly drained, and although her maternity leave officially ended next week, she’d been so busy looking for good day care that she hadn’t even considered the possibility that her job wouldn’t be waiting. “I was counting on that paycheck,” she murmured. “Fortunately, Sue Anne popped up out of nowhere and saved my life.”

Travis slid his sister a skeptical stare. “How’n heck did she do that?”

Sue Anne paused for a leisurely sip of cola, smacked her lips and flashed a smug grin. “I hired her.”

“You what?”

Clearly pleased by her brother’s reaction, Sue Anne stretched like a lazy feline, purring with self-indulgent pride. “I hired Peggy to help out with the books.

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