Taking on Twins by Carolyn Zane

Author:Carolyn Zane
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Single Mothers, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Twins, General
ISBN: 9780373387113
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2001-01-02T07:00:00+00:00

“Well, for starters, several thousand miles and the ghost of a loving husband and father.”

“Oh.” She took a thoughtful sip of her coffee. “For you, that should pose no problem.”

“Emily, I’m not Superman.”

“To me, you are.”

After several botched attempts at remembering his PIN number, Snake Eyes finally managed to get the ATM machine at the Wyoming Federal Savings and Loan on Main Street to begin the litany of hoops he needed to navigate, in order to check his balance.

Welcome, Silas Aloysius Pike.

He stared at his name and remembered he hated his mother all over again. Even his initials screamed under-achiever.

Okay. He squinted at the swimming screen, moving his lips as he read. Did he wish to: check the balance of his primary checking, primary savings, secondary checking, secondary savings, withdraw money from his primary checking or savings, make a deposit, request further information or exit?

How in Sam Hill should he know?

Cursing roundly, Snake Eyes punched the button that best seemed to correspond with moving this damned process along and the machine beeped at him, causing a stabbing pain to sear his brain. He should know better than to do this after a breakfast of Bloody Marys. Then again, having to do this sober would only make him mad. Why couldn’t Marilyn or Muffy or Meredith or whatever-the-hell-her-name-was just send him a suitcase full of money the way they did in the movies?

Again, he punched a series of buttons, following the flashing cursor to the best of his ability and the machine spit his card back out at him. He stared at it for a moment, knowing that his PIN number had slipped once again into the muzzy recesses of his gray matter and bam, bam, bam, out of frustration, he gave the machine a couple of rapid-fire right crosses to the key pad, and some left-handed jabs to the tiny little TV screen with the picture of the happy, smiling teller. He cursed her perky face and decided that after Emily, this broad was next.

Much to his amazement, a receipt spewed forth from the bowels of the bank and the perky teller thanked him for using the Wyoming Federal Savings and Loan ATM machine. Snake Eyes grunted and held the receipt out at arm’s length. When he was finally able to decipher the numbers that swam before his eyes, his jaw sagged.

The Colton broad had finally come through. There was money in his account. A lot of money. Not as much as he’d asked for, but enough.

Time to get to work.

After a little celebration, of course. After all, it wasn’t every day that Silas A. Pike’s ship pulled into the harbor.

A little skip in his stagger, Snake Eyes headed toward the local watering hole for some libation and to strategize. He needed to form a game plan for tonight. His fingers itched and his stomach tingled at the thought.

“Bye-bye, little Emily,” he muttered, then threw back his head and howled with laughter.

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