The Boss's Secret Mistress by Alison Fraser

Author:Alison Fraser
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2001-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

LUCAS studied Tory for a moment longer, then said, ‘You’ll see, one day,’ before turning to press on the doorbell.

It was answered by a woman wearing a frog apron on top of a smart summer dress. She was slightly older than Tory with a pretty freckled face and red hair escaping from a band at the neck. She looked a little flustered but her face was transformed at the sight of Lucas.

‘Luc, lovely to see you.’ She gave him a hug and a kiss on the cheek before turning to Tory. ‘And you must be the features editor to be. Pleased to meet you. Come through, but mind the toys.’

She led the way down a wide hall, which was strewn with the pieces of a wooden train set, calling out, ‘Boys, Uncle Luc is here.’

The effect was immediate as two identical pyjama-clad figures came hurtling out of a room to throw themselves at Lucas Ryecart’s legs. Without hesitation, he stooped down and heaved one up in each arm, much to the boys’ delight.

‘Play trains,’ demanded one.

‘Build a tent,’ demanded the other.

‘Pillow fight!’ added the first.

‘Do the swingy thing,’ chimed the second.

And so it went on as the twins began to list endless possibilities now opened up to them at the appearance of ‘Uncle Luc’.

‘Boys!’ their mother eventually called over the excited gabbling. ‘Uncle Luc is having dinner. You are going to bed.’

This elicited a joint protest of ‘Aw’ and crestfallen little faces.

‘You heard your mother.’ Lucas put them both back on the ground. ‘But if you’re up those stairs by the time I count five, I may just tell you the really scary thing that happened to my friends, Al and Bill, the time they got lost in a jungle in South America.’

‘A real jungle?’

‘Honestly?’

The boys’ eyes were round with anticipation before Lucas began, ‘One…two…’

Then there was a mad scramble as the two made for the stairs and rushed up as quickly as their legs would allow.

‘You don’t have to,’ Caro said as he reached five.

‘I’d like to.’ He raised a brow in Tory’s direction. ‘You don’t mind?’

Tory shook her head. Caro seemed friendly enough.

‘It’ll give us a chance to have a girl talk.’ Caro grinned wickedly.

‘About magazine work, I hope,’ Lucas added.

‘Of course. What else?’ Caro feigned innocence, even as the gleam in her eye suggested he would also be a topic under discussion.

Then one of the twins appeared at the top of the stairs to shout, ‘Is it five yet?’

‘Shh, the baby’s asleep!’ his mother called back.

While Lucas promised, ‘I’m coming, Jack,’ and took the stairs two at a time.

‘I don’t know how he does it—’ Caro gazed after him in puzzled admiration ‘—but he always gets their names right. Not even their grandmothers can do that.’

Tory wouldn’t have managed it either. The boys had looked like clones of each other. ‘Does he see them often?’

‘He tries to—’ Caro pulled a forgiving face ‘—but he has such a busy schedule. Still, the boys always love it when Uncle Luc comes.

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