Tender Loving Care
“An acrid odor of smoke permeated the room. “Good Lord! What were you two doing!” She couldn’t tell one voice from another in the pitch-black room, and they were both talking at once. “The lamp just fell all to pieces; I didn’t mean to—” “What’d you expect to happen when you threw the book at it, stupid?” Rafe clamped a hand on her shoulder from behind. “Keep them away from it, Zoe. I’ll unplug the lamp and change the fuse.” Grabbing the little ones, she tried to soothe and calm and at the same time determine just how the disaster had happened. Both boys were safely stashed on the couch next to her when the lights snapped on again, and then her eyes widened in shock at the wreckage. Rafe’s huge porcelain lamp was in shards on the floor, its shade bent grotesquely. A leatherbound textbook lay in the center of the mess.
“All right. Who threw the book?” Rafe hadn’t taken long to return from the fuse box.
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