The Tycoon's Instant Family by Caroline Anderson

Author:Caroline Anderson [Anderson, Caroline]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women's Fiction, Fiction, Contemporary, romance, Love Stories
ISBN: 9781460355299
Amazon: 0263854914
Publisher: Mills and Boon
Published: 2006-04-14T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

HE COULDN’T finish the sentence. He didn’t need to. His clothes said it all. She looked into the back of the car and met two pairs of wary, frightened eyes, and her heart contracted.

And there between them was a rear-facing baby seat, the only visible evidence of its occupant a tiny, waving fist.

Her hand came up to cover her mouth, to hold back the cry of denial, but there was no denying it. It was in his eyes, the grief, the despair, the utter disbelief.

‘Oh, Nick—why didn’t you ring me?’

‘I tried. I couldn’t finish dialling your number. I didn’t know what to say.’

‘You could have sent me a text. I would have come to you, helped you. You didn’t have to do this alone.’

‘I didn’t. I’ve got Tory, but I need a favour, Georgie. I need you to help me. I’d got the funeral covered but they hate the nanny and she’s walked out. Can you—? I’m sorry, but I can’t have them there. They’re too young, and my mother—’

‘It’s all right,’ she said, moving to hug him, but he backed away, his hands rammed in his pockets.

‘Don’t touch me, Georgie. Don’t be nice to me, for God’s sake. I’m hanging by a thread.’

Her hands fell to her sides and she nodded, biting her lip to hold back the words that would push him over the edge.

‘So,’ she said after a moment, then cleared her throat and tried again. ‘What do you want me to do?’

‘Can I follow you home and leave the kids there with you? It shouldn’t be too long—four hours or so? Shut the site down if you have to; I’ll pay their wages. I wouldn’t do this to you if I could avoid it, but Mum’s just distraught and I have to collect her from the hospital and take her to the funeral, then take her back. I can’t subject the kids to that and I don’t know who else to turn to.’

‘No, of course you can’t. It’s fine. Give me ten seconds to programme Andy, and I’ll be with you.’

She turned on her heel and ran over to the coach house where Andy was working, filled him in and then ran to her car, flashing her lights at Nick as she started it up and pulled out in front of him. He fell in behind her, trailed her to her house and there he got the children out while she hurried in and warned her father, then went back out to help him with the little ones.

‘Kids, this is Georgie,’ he said, the baby in her carrier in one hand, his other hand rested on the small, tousled head of the younger boy. ‘She’s going to look after you today. Georgie, this is Dickon, and his big brother, Harry, and the baby’s called Maya.’ Harry stood a fraction apart, isolated in his loss, his eyes wary, and Georgie could have wept.

Oh, good grief, she thought, they’re so young—too young to have lost their mother. Especially the baby.

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