Santa's Seven-Day Baby Tutorial by Meg Maxwell

Author:Meg Maxwell
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-23T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

As they approached the exit for Blue Gulch, Colt pulled over to text Jake and let him know that they’d be at the ranch in about twenty minutes to pick up the twins.

The little guys are fast asleep, Jake texted back. Why not pick them up in the morning? Enjoy the evening.

Huh. “Looks like we have the night off from baby duty,” he said to Anna.

“Aww, I miss the twins. And it feels strange to be apart from them for so long after taking care of them round the clock for a few days.”

“I know what you mean. I feel a little itchy about it, to be honest. Like something is missing.”

Anna smiled. “You love them.”

“Duh,” he said. “I’m their uncle.”

“Yes, but you looove them. They’re inside your heart. Under your skin.”

He wasn’t quite sure what she was getting at and wasn’t sure he wanted to know. “It doesn’t make sense to wake them up just to bring them home and have them be all grouchy. We should let them sleep.”

“Agreed,” she said. “You know what I would love to do on our night off? Have that pad Thai you mentioned earlier. See a movie in a theater—that would be a first for me. I’ve never dressed up for a night out. I’ve never worn earrings or lipstick.”

This would be...like a date. He swallowed.

“But it wouldn’t be a date,” he said quickly. “Just a night out.”

He caught her frown before she could hide it. Unfortunately, he was well trained to catch every minute facial movement. Now he felt like a jerk.

“Well, it could be like a date,” she said. “I’ve never been on a date in the English world. You could show me what I’d be in for.”

“In for?” he asked. Now he was the one frowning.

“Well, if I stay in your world, I’ll need to know what I’m getting into. What English men are like, what is done on dates, how things go.”

He hadn’t really considered the idea of Anna dating. But of course she would. Why did it bug him?

Hmm. Maybe he should take her out on a date. It would give him a chance to sort out his feelings for her, which were all over the place. He’d be sitting across from her in the Thai place instead of in their rooms with babies and their stuff all around them. He’d have more of a chance to see her as a woman and not his nanny. Given how young she was—eight years his junior—and how sheltered, he was sure he’d see that she would be better suited to a younger, more sheltered kind of guy, someone more her...type. Surely he wasn’t it.

“Date night, it is,” he said. “It’s almost five thirty now. Why don’t I pick you up at seven?”

She laughed. “By walking across the hall and knocking on my door?” she asked.

“Yes.”

She laughed again and for a moment he was mesmerized by her big smile and the happiness in her brown eyes.

“Well, then,” he said as he parked in the lot for their inn.

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