“Wow! Check this place out! It’s huge!” Theo declared as they paused inside the foyer. A step behind him Sean whistled. Their father called it a villa but the brownstone was more like a mansion. Who would have thought such a place existed even on the Upper West Side? Behind them c
“Ava, I didn’t…I didn’t know it was you that day,” Silas finally spoke the words he wanted to say. “You…didn’t know?” “No. My friends thought…They wanted me to loosen up so they slipped something in my drink and…When I woke up and saw you I thought…God I thought you were a
Her head pounded from the contradictory thoughts running through her head. She rubbed her temples forcing them to the side. She would think about that later. Her gaze fell on the inviting tub now filling with steaming water. First thing first…a bath to sooth her frayed nerves. * * *
“So…What do you think of, you know, our father?” Theo gave a noncommittal shrug at his brother’s query as he lay at the foot of Alexis’s bed. The butler had shown them to their rooms without so much as a question concerning the origins of the four people his employer sudde
“She does,” Alexis said leaving no room for debate. “She’s just buried her feelings for so long she’s afraid to acknowledge them anymore.” “So…what do we do? Do we…help him?” “No,” Alexis said after a long moment. “He needs to earn mom’s love himself but we also don’t ha
“Whoa! Check it out!” Theo marveled. “This place is huge!” After three days they had settled into the brownstone with their father and even got used to the ever present butler. After addressing concerns over his sudden departure from work their first day Silas had been working from h
She fought tears willing herself not to cry in public. How many lonely nights had she laid awake fretting over the next day? Paying bills, buying groceries, clothes, shoes…the kids needed so much especially two boys growing like weeds. She did it alone because she had no choice but did she have a
“He said to choose anything we wanted,” Theo shrugged twirling the basketball in his hand. “This is too much,” Ava shook her head. “Now I want you to put some of it back.” “How much of it?” Sean asked. “I mean the guards already took like half of it to the car so…”