The Promise of More: The Home Series, Book Three by Gretchen Tubbs

Author:Gretchen Tubbs [Tubbs, Gretchen]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Published: 2015-06-14T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Andi

My daughter has never been so happy in all her life. She’s mesmerized by all of the sea creatures on display at the aquarium in New Orleans. We don’t have anything like this back home, and she’s enchanted by the animals floating before her eyes. Miller’s making sure she sees everything and gets the full description of each animal in the tanks, even though I’m sure she doesn’t understand half of what he’s saying to her. He’s so good with her. I find it odd, considering he’s an only child and has never really been around children her age before. He’s told me about Ava, Lucy’s adopted sister, but she only came into their lives recently.

Charley seems more interested in spending time with Miller than with me, so I hang back with Celeste and let them have their time together. Celeste takes the opportunity to grill me about what happened when I brought him breakfast this morning.

“Give me all the details. Don’t leave out a single, sordid act. I want to hear each dirty little morsel,” she says, looping her arm through mine. Miller and Charley are walking several feet in front of me, but I shush her anyway. I don’t want him to hear this conversation.

“He apologized. He assured me that nothing like that was going to happen again. He didn’t even give me the chance to tell him that I want it to happen again.”

“He may say that now, but I can promise you, he doesn’t mean it. I can see how he watches you when he thinks no one is looking. He wants you. He just doesn’t think he can have you. You don’t need to tell him you want it to happen. You need to show him you want it to happen.”

I look at my friend like she’s lost her mind. I am not well versed in the art of seduction like she is. This is not something I’ve ever had to before. I would feel like an idiot.

“Let me keep Charley tonight. You and Miller need to make this happen.”

I sigh and give her a squeeze, leaving her to join my daughter, who is very engrossed with watching baby sting rays swimming in circles in an open tank.

After a very full day of amusement, we head to a hotel in the French Quarter, our arms loaded down with goodies from our excursions. I’ll never have to buy Charley another stuffed animal for the rest of her life. We’ve got at least two representing every zoo and sea animal known to man; a veritable Noah’s Ark. Even with my insistence at stopping, Miller would go behind my back and get her whatever she wanted, falling for her charms.

My poor daughter is dead on her feet, but she was such a trooper. Miller made sure she got the full experience that a two year old in New Orleans needed…the aquarium, a horse-drawn buggy ride, the zoo, the children’s museum, and beignets. I think the beignets at Café du Monde were her favorite part.

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