The Romano Brothers Series by Leslie North

Author:Leslie North [North, Leslie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-03-03T16:00:00+00:00

9

Gianpierre

You did what?” Luciana’s cheeks colored and Gianpierre didn’t see one ounce of good humor in her eyes. She was fresh back from her girl’s night out, but the evening hadn’t seemed to do anything to soften her reaction to what Gianpierre had done.

“I called a nanny service,” Gianpierre said again, wondering more than a little bit if he’d crossed a line. He’d only wanted to help, and he had to get her to see that. “Natalia and I started work on a fairy castle—”

“A fairy castle,” Luciana interrupted, her tone flat, her eyes narrowed and her beautiful lips thinned.

“Yes,” Gianpierre said, eager to restore her feelings of goodwill toward him. “Natalia wanted to watch videos about fairy castles and I knew that you had told her that she wasn’t allowed to watch online videos without you, so instead of watching videos about fairy castles, I offered to help her build one.”

Luciana crossed her arms over her chest. “And that led you to call a nanny service?”

“Well, no, not directly, but while we worked on the building plans, little Natalia talked and I listened. She said that one of her teachers at her daycare snapped at her when she woke up from a bad dream during nap time. The woman told her she was a bad girl and to go stand in the corner.”

Luciana’s eyes went wide, her mouth fell open and her arms fell to her sides. “What’s her name? Tell me. I’ll rip her heart out through her throat,” Luciana growled as her entire body went into fight mode.

Gianpierre had to resist the urge to take a step back and instead took a step forward. He moved carefully, as if approaching a wild mother cougar protecting her young. Every muscle in Luciana’s body was tight and she was ready to pounce, but it was him who was in her line of sight. He needed her to know that he was looking out for Natalia and that he wanted to protect her too.

“We can’t have you maiming anyone,” Gianpierre soothed. “Natalia needs her Mama. She needs you, and she doesn’t need to be around someone who isn’t willing to put her needs before their own—like the lady at the daycare. So, I called a nanny service and they are sending someone over tonight.”

Luciana took a tense breath as if preparing to deliver a cutting verbal onslaught, but Gianpierre quickly continued speaking in order to stave off the tempest of her anger.

“If you like the nanny, we keep her. If we don’t, we send her away. But”—he held up a finger—“she specializes in children who have experienced traumatic events.”

And just like that, all the breath and all the tension that Luciana had been holding in as she readied her attack whooshed out of her. Even her shoulders sagged. “She specializes in traumatized kids?”

“She does,” Gianpierre said, stepping close enough to take Luciana’s hand in his. He led her to the couch where he sat her down and then sat down next to her.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.