A Daddy for Her Sons by Raye Morgan

Author:Raye Morgan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2013-09-10T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

BY THE TIME Connor got back to the kitchen, Jill had at least sixty cookies cooling and was beginning assembly of the desserts.

“I don’t hear the boys,” she said. “What did you do?”

“Don’t worry. I took care of it.”

She stopped and looked at him through narrowed eyes. “You didn’t tie them up or anything like that, did you?”

“No, nothing like that. I’d show you, but right now, we’ve got to hurry with this stuff.”

She gave him a penetrating glance, but she was in the middle of the drizzle across the top of each confection and her attention got diverted.

“What do you think?” she asked him.

Connor looked the sample over with a critical eye.

“I don’t know. It still needs something. Something to make it look special.”

They both stared for a long sixty seconds.

“I know,” he said. “We’ve got plenty of buttercream left. Get your decorating thingamajig.”

“Why?”

“I’ve seen the flowers you can make with butter cream frosting. You’re going to make one hundred and two rose buds.”

“Oh.” She looked at the clock. “Do you really think we can get them out in time?”

“I know we can.” He grinned at her, then swooped in and kissed her hard on her pretty mouth. “We can do anything. We already have.”

He took her breath away, but she stayed calm. At least outwardly. She stared at him for a few seconds, still feeling that kiss. Why was he doing things guaranteed to send her into a tailspin if she didn’t hold herself together?

But she went back to work and she kept control and the job got finished. And at the end, they stared at each other.

“We did it.”

“We did, didn’t we?”

“But the delivery...”

“Quick. We’re five minutes late.”

He piled the desserts in boxes and headed for the door. Just before he disappeared, he called back, “Better check on the twins.”

She was already on her way. There wasn’t a sound as she climbed the stairs. When she opened the door, nothing moved. But somehow everything looked a little wrong. In the dark, she couldn’t quite figure out what it was and she hated to turn on the light, but she had to. And what she saw left her speechless.

“What?”

One crib stood empty. The other had been turned upside down. The mattress was on the ground, but the rest of the crib was above it like a cage. And on the mattress, her two little boys were sound asleep.

Her first impulse was to wake them up and rescue them, but then she realized they were probably better off where they were. After all, how was she going to get them to stay in their cribs without the bars?

She went back down, not sure what to do. She started cleaning up the kitchen, but then she heard Connor driving up and she went to meet him at the door.

He came in smiling. “They loved it,” he announced. “People were asking for our card and I was handing them out like crazy.”

She put her head to the side and raised her eyebrows as she listened to him.

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