The Boss and Miss Baxter by Warren Wendy

Author:Warren, Wendy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette Special Edition
Published: 2006-10-02T04:00:00+00:00

Despite a lingering headache and fatigue that she attributed to the move, Nina spent the following two days organizing the library/office into a functional work space. David suggested she take a couple of days simply to settle in with her kids, but she ignored him. Her children were in electronics heaven, and she needed to focus on work in order to remind herself that their stay here was first, last and in between about business.

It didn't take too long for David to fall into step with her. They worked smoothly together, organizing files and compiling task lists. After the first couple of hours on Sunday, Nina noted a marked change in David's demeanor, however. He started out relaxed and casual, as he had been during the move, but by midday he was the David Hanson she knew from the office-polite, professional and remote.

On Monday she phoned him at the office to tell him about Zach's early-morning appointment with the pulmonary specialist. The visit had offered far more promise than their usual doctor appointments, and both she and Zach had left the office in good spirits. David picked up her call by saying, “Yes, Miss Baxter? What can I do for you?” Nina told herself that the distance, the return to formality-even to a bit of awkwardness between them-was right. It was good.

She worked furiously through Monday afternoon, keeping her mind on business, and by the time she picked her children up from school-a luxury afforded by the job's flexible hours-she was ready to collapse in the wondrously comfortable bed David had given her.

She was on day three of her headache, plus now her body protested every move and her throat was sore. Her children would have been thrilled with drive-through burgers or microwaved frozen dinners featuring a fat and sugar content guaranteed to accelerate the hardening of their arteries. Nina, however, insisted on preparing something fresh and reminiscent of the food pyramid while Zach and Izzy worked on homework at the kitchen counter.

She was sautéing broccoli and red peppers for a pasta sauce and concentrating hard on remaining upright when David arrived home.

He looked tired as he entered the kitchen, leaned against the counter and watched her. He remained like that, not speaking, simply watching her cook, a full minute. Then he straightened, raised a hand carrying a briefcase and pointed at her. “You should not be cooking. You look as if you're about to keel over.”

“I'm fine, and good evening to you, too,” she snapped, too sick and irritable to admit that he was right. “I'm making pasta. There's plenty if you're hungry.”

Nina kept her pounding head lowered and was surprised when the large sauté spoon was plucked from her hand.

“Sit down,” David commanded. “You look like you're about to fall face first into the skillet. You're probably scaring your children.”

Nina glanced toward her kids, who should have been studying, but instead were engaged in a discussion about gummy worms. Go figure. Nina smirked at David. “You don't know much about kids.

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