Out of the Darkness & Night Moves by Heather Graham

Author:Heather Graham
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2017-11-28T18:12:05+00:00

Chapter Three

BRYN KNEW SOON after she sat down at the large booth that the Chinese restaurant had been a mistake. Noodles were sliding across the slick veneer tabletop in seconds as the hungry kids grabbed at them; a water glass was tipped over almost immediately, and Adam slid off the plastic seat cover, bumped his head and broke into tears.

Why couldn’t I have picked McDonald’s, she asked herself as she alternately soothed Adam and tried to sound like the wrath of God to Brian and Keith in a quiet tone so that they would settle down.

Yes, it had definitely been a mistake.

When Friday night had at last rolled around after the grueling and nerve-racking week, she had been ecstatic. She had promised herself that she was going to forget it all, go home cool and calm, and be entirely decent and loving to the kids.

And for the first half hour everything had gone fine, just fine. But she had carried her Mother Goose act a little too far. And while she had been helping Brian to read Burrough’s “Tarzan,” Adam had looked up from his coloring book to inform her, “Something stinks!”

“Yeah,” Keith had volunteered helpfully. “And it’s burning, too!”

“Oh—” Don’t say it! Don’t say it! “Oh—sugar!” she groaned, flying up from the bottom bunk, bashing her head, and racing down to the kitchen. The meatloaf was irretrievably burned; her spinach was green glue inside the saucepan.

The kids loved Chinese food, and they even ate Chinese vegetables. Wong’s was a great restaurant where they had a high tolerance for children. And she had already copped out with burgers and fries, and with pizza. They needed something vaguely healthy to eat.

So here she was at Wong’s, wishing that she wasn’t.

“I want the sweet and sour chicken...” Keith began.

“Can I have the cashew chicken? We always have to order what Keith wants.”

“Uggh! I don’t like cashew chicken. I don’t like cashews.”

“Stop!” Bryn hissed as quietly as it was possible to do while still putting menace in her voice. She kissed Adam on the top of his blond head, sopped up the spilled water and did her best to collect the straying noodles. Then she gave the two older boys her most threatening scowl, until Keith lowered his red head, and Brian bowed his darker one in silent submission.

“You three will act decent in a restaurant!” she warned, but then she leaned back more comfortably in the booth, resting her head against its back for a minute. It wasn’t their fault that it was so late and that they were half starving. Nor was it their fault that her week had been so miserable.

It wasn’t anyone’s fault but her own. And Lee Condor’s.

He had barely spoken to her since they had talked in the drawing room. He had been professional and competent to a fault, polite—and strictly proper. It was almost as if he had actually asked her for a date and she had said a clear “No,” leaving him to agree with a simple “Fine.

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