Seal Daddy (The Single Brothers Book 4) by Stephanie Brother

Author:Stephanie Brother [Brother, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-12-26T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Ben

Two weeks after the near disaster at Ginger’s place, I sat at the hotel’s reception desk, hiding a yawn behind my hand. It wasn’t the best form to be showing potential guests, but then, there hadn't been any for the past few days. And still, I was forced to sit at the reception and wait for the off chance that there was someone that needed a room. I would have been in my apartment, but my sister had been out for the week, so I was taking on her reception desk duty.

I was just glad I didn’t have to take over the cooking. That would have been a disaster.

It was fucking boring, though, and I was tempted to just head up to my room and sleep, even knowing I couldn’t. I leaned my elbow against the counter and rested my hand on my palm, closing my eyes for a moment.

“Are you sleeping on the job, big brother?”

I blinked my eyes open to see my sister just walking into the hotel.

“Oh,” I muttered disinterestedly. “You’re back.” She gave me a look of disapproval, but I just checked the time and smiled to myself. “That’s good. I get to go pick Fern up early.”

Her eyebrows shot up. “You mean, your daughter, and my niece, Fern?”

I nodded, sitting upright and feeling a bit of excitement at the thought of my daughter.

“Yeah. I’ve been picking her up from nursery school for the past couple weeks, on Tuesday and Friday. Ginger’s started taking her there more instead of taking Fern to work with her now that there’s someone to help her out.”

“Look at you, suddenly bursting with excitement,” Scarlett said with a chuckle. “That’s the kind of face you’re supposed to be showing our customers.”

I snorted. “If it’s like that, then you might as well keep the job because I’m reserving my excitement for Ginger and Fern.” I folded my arms on the desk and laid my chin on them. “You know I’ve never really been good with strangers and putting me here was a bad idea, right?”

She just sighed. “I figured it was a way to make you more social, so why not try. Oh well. But at least you’re stepping up with Ginger, so I’m proud of you for that.”

I gave her a quick smile, then looked at her a little more closely. While she looked fine, I thought she was trying just a bit too hard to look like she was fine.

“Did something happen?” I asked cautiously, remembering Dan’s words about her being moody lately. “Where did you leave the kid?”

She waved a vague hand over her shoulder. “I left him with Dan for today. I’ve been leaving him with Dan for a lot of days, lately. If he didn’t work from home, I’d be in some real trouble.”

I hummed. “But something is up,” I guessed. “Because you look stressed out, sis. More than usual.”

She sighed, then rounded the desk to sit on the seat beside me.

“Is it that obvious?” she mused.

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