enough sleep, you won’t get up in time for all the fun stuff tomorrow. You don’t want to miss anything, do you?”
“No.” He said it reluctantly, enough to make her smile.
She looked up from tousling his hair to find herself facing Nathan. Her heart thumped hard, part fear, part an ill-advised thrill at being near him.
“Thanks for that,” he said.
“What?”
“Jumping into the dog fray.”
She shrugged. “No problem. I could tell what Choco was doing.” She glanced down at Evan, hoping he didn’t pick up on anything too familiar between her and Nathan.
Nathan propped his hands on his hips. “I’m guessing we’ll lose another guest tonight though.”
“Maybe not. She probably just needs time to calm down. We moms tend to overreact sometimes.”
Nathan’s gaze shifted to Evan, and she had to fight the burning need to hurry Evan away. And her guilt at feeling that way.
Evan looked up at Nathan. “Do we get to ride tomorrow?”
Nathan hesitated just long enough to increase Grace’s nervousness even more. “If you’re very good and do what your mother says.”
Evan thought about this for a moment, then nodded. “Mom, I need to go to bed.”
She bit her lip to keep from smiling at Evan’s quick about-face. And she tried to ignore the twinge of annoyance that he was so much quicker to agree with Nathan than her, even without the knowledge Nathan was his father. Maybe it was just a guy thing, a boy responding to a male authority figure, something Evan had never had but innately listened to. She couldn’t say that made her particularly happy.
Past Nathan’s shoulder, she noticed Merline watching them. “Evan, go wait in the car. I’ll be there in a minute.” When he was out of hearing range and the rest of the dog-incident spectators had wandered away, she looked at Nathan. “Your mom knows, doesn’t she?”
“She figured it out on her own. I haven’t told anyone.”
“Will she tell the others?”
“Dad, maybe. They don’t keep secrets from each other.”
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