Secret Daddy by Edna Curry

Author:Edna Curry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance novel, contemporary romance, Minnesota, Minnesota author, Male twins
Publisher: Edna Curry
Published: 2016-09-27T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 7

Cathy had barely had her coffee and gotten through her morning routine when Dave showed up along with the cleaners. She answered the doorbell and waved them inside.

“I didn’t expect you to be here, too, Dave,” she told him.

“I took the day off. I thought I could take you out of here while they do this. We could go shopping or something. It’ll be too noisy around here for you to concentrate on work.”

She looked at the vacuums and shampooers they were unloading from their van and agreed. The man and woman team looked like they knew what they were doing and planned to make lots of noise all right.

But spend a whole day with Dave? How could she do that? Don’t think about it. She’d concentrate on giving Cory a fun day with his uncle and a day off work for herself. “All right,” she told him, “I’ll go change and collect Cory’s things.”

The cleaning team brought in their equipment, with Dave explaining the problem to them.

Then he hustled her and Cory out to his car and strapped Cory in.

She stowed the diaper bag in the car and cast a nervous glance back at the house. “Are you sure it’s okay to leave them here alone, Dave?”

“Yes, Cathy. I’ve known this gal half my life. Her parents own a house on the other side of the lake. I trust her and her husband.”

“All right.” She got into the car.

He closed the door, then went around and got behind the wheel. “Where would you like to go?”

Shrugging, she said, “Wherever you’d like.”

“I noticed Cory’s toes are up to the ends of his shoes. He needs new ones again.”

“Yes, I planned to get them after the first of the month,” she said. Damn the man. He was criticizing her again. Was he trying to set things up to show she wasn’t caring for Cory properly?

“So how about shopping at a mall?” he said.

“All right,” she agreed. I’ll use my credit card and to heck with paying the interest. I’m not giving him any reason to say I’m not meeting Cory’s needs.

He pulled out onto the blacktop road and into the flow of traffic. “Is the Maplewood Mall okay? Or would you rather go to Rosedale?”

She shrugged. “I’m not familiar with either one, so it’s up to you.”

At the mall, he got a stroller and put Cory into it. Cory was fascinated with all the people and activity and content to watch people.

“Shoes for Cory, first, then wherever else you’d like,” he said. He consulted the directory, and steered her from store to store, listening carefully as the salespeople touted the merits of various shoes. He finally chose the most expensive pair they’d looked at.

“I can’t afford those,” she protested. “Besides, it’s silly to spend that much money on baby shoes. He’ll outgrow them in a couple of months.”

“Then I’ll buy him another pair,” he said, handing his credit card to the saleslady. “We’ll take these, and he’ll wear them. Put his old ones in the box.

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