Part-Time Wife by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery [Mallery, Susan]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
ISBN: 9780373240272
Google: NJl_AAAACAAJ
Amazon: 0373240279
Barnesnoble: 0373240279
Goodreads: 14051
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1996-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 9

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"You can't go on the teacups. You'll throw up," Ben said with the superiority of the older brother who has experienced life.

Danny's lower lip quivered. "I can too go on the ride, and I won't throw up. You're just a fat old mobyhead!"

Ben lunged for Danny. C.J. stuck out a foot and nearly tripped him. Danny started to cry.

"Boys, it looks to me as if everyone is a little tired," Jill said. "Maybe we should all go back to the room and take a nap."

"No way!" Ben said.

"Jill, come on, I wasn't doing anything wrong," C.J. told her.

"I don't want to take a nap." Danny wiped his face with the back of his hand.

Craig put his arm around her shoulders and grinned. "I'd like to take this moment to remind you that I did offer you the week off. You're the one who got excited and declared that you hadn't been to Disneyland in years."

She laughed as she glanced up at him. "Everyone gets to make one mistake."

As he winked, her stomach tightened slightly and she had to fight to keep her toes from curling inside her athletic shoes. "Okay, here's how it goes. Ben, you and C.J. get one of the cups and your dad, Danny and I will take another." She glanced at the youngest Haynes. "Danny, if you throw up, I'm going to be very unhappy."

"I won't," he promised and leaned against her. The line moved forward as the brightly colored teacups the size of large dining-room tables twirled and spun on a rapidly spinning base.

She'd agreed to come with the boys and their father to Disneyland for the reason she'd told Craig. She hadn't been here in years. In addition, she was concerned about Ben. He'd been on his low-fat, more-exercise program for a month and was doing great. However, a week at an amusement park could be a lot of temptation for a twelve-year-old boy. The last reason, the one she admitted only to herself, and only in the privacy of her hotel room late at night when she couldn't sleep, was that she wanted to know what Craig was like when he wasn't so caught up in work.

It was a delicious form of torture. He was far too good-looking for a mere mortal man. Her heart was in a constant state of excitement; her palms sweated on an alarmingly regular basis. If she didn't know better, she would think she was coming down with some deadly tropical disease. But it wasn't anything that interesting. Only attraction to her boss. A condition so common, it was a cliché.

Not that anything had happened between them. There had been that one kiss, then nothing. It was as if by agreeing to stay with the boys through the end of summer, she'd reminded him of her position in his house. He hadn't made another move. No matter how often she'd silently willed him to.

The line moved forward again. The boys talked with one another.

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