Texas Baby by Michaels Tanya

Author:Michaels, Tanya [Michaels, Tanya]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373753253
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2010-12-23T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Addie scowled at her reflection. Vanity, thy name is woman. Despite the times she'd maintained that she and Giff should be no more than friends, with ten minutes to go until he was due to pick them up, she found herself wishing she was, well, sexier. The man spent time at high-dollar benefits and symphony orchestra performances with beautiful socialites in designer evening gowns. Compared to those women, she probably wasn't very alluring in her pink-and-white checkered halter bathing suit and denim cutoffs.

She half wished she owned a string bikini. Granted, she wasn't endowed enough to fill out the top portion very well, and she'd never had washboard abs, not even at eighteen, but her arms were toned, her legs were great and—Knock it off! You're not supposed to be alluring. Not for this outing, anyway.

Resolving to put aside her ego, she grabbed a wide barrette and secured her hair in a ponytail as she walked down the hall. "Tanner? Giff will be here soon, and it's been a few hours since breakfast." How was it that the child she had to drag out of bed on school mornings cheerfully got up with the sun on the couple days she could have slept in? "You want a snack, honey?"

"No, thanks." He glanced up from the cartoon he was watching. "My tummy doesn't feel so good."

Nerves, no doubt. Yet he'd never once asked or suggested that they cancel the day's plans. She was so proud of him she ached with it. Joining him on the sofa, she ruffled his hair. You look so much like your daddy. She had a moment of déjà vu—how many Saturdays as a kid had she sat with her big brother on the couch watching cartoons, laughing, bickering? "Did I ever tell you about the time your dad talked me into painting myself blue?"

Tanner's eyes widened. "Really?"

"I used to watch this cartoon about a village of little blue creatures who lived in the woods, and your father told me that they were real but you could only see them if you were blue like them."

"And you believed him?" Tanner asked incredulously.

"Give me a break, I was little! And he wasn't much older than you. Grandma was not happy with us."

Tanner giggled. "You're making this up."

"If I were going to make up stories, I wouldn't be the one doing foolish things in them. Trust me." She hugged him, glad she'd shared the silly, miscellaneous memory. Although she would never discourage the kids from talking about their parents, she rarely brought up Zach and Diane because she hadn't wanted to upset Tanner. But maybe that had been a mistake.

"Hey, you know who else you can trust?" she asked after a moment. "Giff. He's a good guy. If he says we're going to have fun today, I believe him. What about you?"

Tanner considered this, then nodded.

"Good. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to finish packing our duffel bags." As she stood, she glanced to where Nicole was gurgling and kicking her feet inside a mesh-walled playpen.

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