Second Chance Nanny: A Steamy Single Dad Romance by Carolyn Faulkner

Author:Carolyn Faulkner [Faulkner, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Blushing Books
Published: 2022-03-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

The next morning, when she finally dragged herself to the breakfast table after getting no sleep at all the night before but having come to a monumental decision, there was someone missing.

"Ellsworth, where is Mr. Patton?" she asked as she dug into eggs, Mrs. White's special home fries, and two enormous sausage patties.

"Oh, he got called out of town unexpectedly on business."

"Oh. Did, uh, did he say when he'd be back?" she asked, trying to sound as nonchalant as possible.

"No, Miss Henderson, I'm afraid he didn't."

Lovely, Norah thought. And this when she'd just laid her carefully crafted letter of resignation on his desk. Well, she couldn't leave now if she wanted to—she wasn't going to leave Tara when her father was gone, and besides, although she didn't feel she owed him much in the way of loyalty, she intended to work out her notice.

And, hell, she didn't want to leave in the first place, but she didn't feel as if she had a choice now. Let him sue her into oblivion. At least she wouldn't have to face the fact that—if she continued to stay here, she was inevitably going to end up back in his bed, and with no ring on her finger that promised her any kind of stability—not that that he hadn't yanked that out from under her, anyway.

She was a horrible, awful, terrible hypocrite. She should never have allowed him to touch her like that. She should have jumped off his lap as soon as he'd put her on it—or over it, for that matter. She'd allowed—yes, consciously, sometimes eagerly –allowed him to make advances on her person that weren't going to end in a good place for her, especially if history had anything to say about it.

It was almost enough to send her into another bout of tears, but she didn't want to do that in front of Tara.

So, while he was gone, Norah did for herself what she'd been doing for Tara. She kept them busy. In one week, they visited a petting zoo, where a deer ate Tara's ice cream cone, although she didn't much seem to care. Then they went to the aquarium, where the beluga whales were their favorites by far. And to the farmers' market where they bought some fresh veggies to bring back to Mrs. White, to the movie theatre, where there was a matinee showing of The Wizard of Oz. Tara enjoyed the popcorn and the cartoons that preceded the movie. And she was fine with the movie itself—until the appearance of the Wicked Witch of the West.

From the first moment she appeared on screen, in the middle of Munchkin land, Tara leapt into Norah's lap and buried her head against her neck, shaking like a leaf. So they abandoned that movie, and Norah sincerely apologized to the little girl for having misjudged how scary that bad old witch might be to her.

But it turned out that a scoop of chocolate ice cream was an excellent panacea, and two scoops of vanilla worked reasonably well for her, too.

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