The Texas Cowboy's Quadruplets by Cathy Gillen Thacker

Author:Cathy Gillen Thacker [Thacker, Cathy Gillen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781488093913
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2018-10-01T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Judith met them at the door of her mansion, late Saturday morning. “What happened?” she asked, aghast.

Chase turned to Mitzy, figuring she should answer, since she had just endured the road trip from hell with her quadruplets.

Mitzy grimaced. “Turns out that being in the car more than thirty minutes or so makes them all spit up.”

Or at least it had that morning, Chase thought.

Judith, who’d been about to reach out to hug them, stepped back, hands up as if to stave them off. “I’m sorry, but you-all reek!”

Mitzy—who had predicted this reaction from her mother—sent Chase a beleaguered glance. Then, like Chase, still holding an infant carrier with a sleeping baby in each hand, retorted with laudable calm, “We’re aware we all smell like sour milk, Mother. Which is why we’d like to get everyone cleaned up, and the interior of my SUV detailed, as soon as possible.”

Judith bypassed the caterers setting up and led them toward the sweeping staircase that dominated the grand entry hall of the ten-thousand-square-foot mansion. “Well, the stylists are waiting. The photographer is here.” She motioned to the four young women gathered on the second-floor balcony. The childcare workers headed down en masse. Looking even more stressed, Judith turned back, fretting, “I wish you hadn’t insisted on doing everything all in one day!”

Mitzy, well accustomed to her mother’s griping, countered just as implacably, “We’re here now. So do you want to argue about it or get going?” The nannies each took one baby boy.

Judith swept into drill-sergeant mode. “The first order of business is to get everyone out of those horrible clothes and get the vomit smell washed off.” She turned to Mitzy. “I’ll send someone out for the bags while you show Chase to the blue suite. And we’ll have your SUV taken to the car wash.”

Chase handed over the vehicle keys. “Thanks, Judith.”

Walter appeared, in a polo shirt and khakis. He looked completely unfazed by all the activity swirling about them. “When you’re done, come out to the pool. We’ll see about getting you some refreshments...”

Glad he’d thought to bring a couple of extra shirts and jeans, Chase changed and washed up. He could hear the stylists, makeup and hair crew jockeying for top dog status as he passed Mitzy’s room.

Thinking it was going to be a men’s only get-together, he was surprised to see Walter and Judith waiting for him at one of the umbrella tables.

“I don’t know how long we’ll have to talk privately,” Mitzy’s mother began, her voice as sunny and unseasonably warm as the December weather outside, “so I’ll get straight to the point.”

She poured them each a cup of peppermint tea. “Gus didn’t just talk privately to you before he died, Chase. He talked to me and Walter, too.”

She waited for Chase to take a sip of the fragrant beverage. “We know what you promised him. What I can’t comprehend is what’s taking so long!” She paused to give him a look of reproof and leaned toward him.

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