The Nanny's Family Wish by Helen Lacey

Author:Helen Lacey
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2020-02-13T12:47:59+00:00

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On Wednesday afternoon David got home to find Mitch’s horse trailer by the tables, and Annie bringing Star through the corral gate.

“I didn’t expect you today,” he said as his cousin approached and shook his hand.

“I’m boarding Annie’s horse for a while,” Mitch explained. “I thought you knew.”

“I forgot,” he replied, his stomach sinking.

As he spoke, Annie noticed him and immediately averted her gaze, loading her horse up the ramp. Once she was done, Mitch closed the tailgate and bolted it securely in place.

“Thank you,” she said to his cousin, ignoring David.

“No problem,” Mitch replied. “I’ll take good care of him. I’ll get him settled in and call you later to know how he’s doing.”

She thanked him again, glancing briefly toward David. “I’m going to see to the kids,” she said. “They want to watch the kittens play.”

She walked off toward the stables, hips swinging, her head at a tight angle.

“Things a little frosty around here I take it?” Mitch said and grinned once she had disappeared.

“A little.”

“Got anything you want to tell me?”

David’s gut sank. “I guess Annie told Tess, and your wife told you.”

“I heard something about a marriage proposal.”

David’s back straightened. “It was just a—”

“You know, you can’t expect to put a ring on the finger of a woman you haven’t even taken on a date.”

“We’ve been out together plenty of times,” David replied, desperate to ignore the heat clawing at the back of his neck. “In fact, last Friday we went to JoJo’s and—”

“I mean without two kids or a couple of grandparents as company,” Mitch said, cutting him off again. “And anyway, the last time we talked about this, you said you and Annie didn’t think about each other in that way and it was a ridiculous idea.”

He shrugged. “I know what I said.”

“What changed your mind?”

David sighed. “I...don’t know,” he said, unable to articulate the thoughts in his head. “The kids don’t want to lose Annie and she said she wants to get married. So I just...did it. It made sense at the time.”

“And now?”

He shrugged again. “Does it matter? She said no, end of story.”

Mitch laughed and slapped him on the shoulder. “Man, you’re so screwed. Look, David, I have to get going, but let me give you some advice. I know you mean well, I do. Go with that. Just try not to be too...” Mitch sighed. “Try to put yourself in her shoes and think about how she feels. Okay? Annie is my wife’s sister, remember? We don’t want to be in the middle of your romantic entanglements.”

“Then stay out of it,” David said irritably. “I know what I’m doing.”

“You sure about that?” Mitch asked, more seriously. “Looks like all you’re doing is hurting someone we all care about.”

“I’d never hurt Annie,” he said flatly, conscious of how the very notion made his insides vibrate with a kind of uneasiness he wasn’t used to.

“Glad to hear it,” Mitch replied. “Maybe you should have thought about that before you asked her to marry you just because it made sense at the time.

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