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The puppy. He’d forgotten about her. “The farm will be a great place for her to live. There are a lot of animals and a lot of children to love them.”
Terror widened the little girl’s eyes. “She’s mine! I love her!”
He was batting zero. “I promise I will go get her and bring her to see you.”
Lindsay’s had a determined expression. “To keep.”
Again Noah kept his mouth shut. Thankfully he usually learned pretty quickly.
“Adam gave her to me.” The little girl’s eyes drilled into him.
Noah shifted under the children’s glares. Although it was in the fifties, sweat broke out on his forehead. At that moment the sound of a car pulling up sent such a bolt of relief through him he nearly collapsed to the ground.
He jumped up, dusting off his khaki pants, and swung around. Cara hurried toward them.
“Are you guys all right?” She directed the question at the children, kneeling down in front of them.
Lindsay stabbed a finger toward Noah. “ He says we can’t go home, that Daddy is gone for good. He won’t let me have Molly, either.” Tears glistened in the little girl’s blue eyes.
He felt like a heel, and he really hadn’t done anything wrong. Is this how having children makes a person feel? No wonder he didn’t want to have anything to do with having a family.
Cara brushed the child’s blond hair behind her ears. “I was coming over to take you to see Adam like I promised.”
“We got tired of waiting for you.” Rusty’s pout returned in full force.
“It’s only eight-thirty.”
“We’ve been up for hours, dressed and ready to go.” The boy gnawed on the end of his thumb.
“Did you get any sleep?” Cara peered from Lindsay to Rusty, such kindness in her eyes that Noah wished she would look at him like that.
No! Strike that! I have no business thinking that.
Rusty’s mutinous expression spoke volumes—that and the weary look in his eyes. Obviously they hadn’t slept at all. He could certainly have used a few more hours himself. After returning home last night, he’d been so keyed up that it had taken him several hours finally to fall asleep.
Cara rose. “Let’s go see Adam. I’m sure he will be feeling a lot better this morning and will want to see you two.”
Lindsay leaped to her feet and took Cara’s hand. Rusty stood reluctantly. He trudged behind Cara and Lindsay as they headed for her Chevy.
After the children were secured in the car, Cara turned toward Noah and smiled. “Are you coming with us?”
He was ninety percent sure he heard Rusty mutter no, but he took it as a challenge. There wasn’t anything he couldn’t do if he put his mind to it. “Yes. I’ll follow you to the hospital.”
“See you there.” Cara slipped behind the steering wheel and pulled out onto the highway.
Now why had he done that? He was committed to going to the hospital with two—no, make that three—children who weren’t too happy with him right at the moment.
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