Siobhan sat at the kitchen table drinking a glass of wine when Daniel came in later that night. He laughed quietly at the expression on her face and said he was going to get changed. She shook her head and thought over the last few hours. Her mother and brother had bugged her the whole way home. Asking her why her boss would go out of his way to help her and if there was anything going on. In her dreams she thought and chuckled to her self.
"what's funny?" Daniel asked as he came back into the room.
"Nothing" she said and took a sip of her wine. "except for the fact that my brother thinks you seduced me and I am secretly carrying your love child."
Daniel nearly dropped his glass of water. "really?"
"yup, can't seem to figure out why a billionaire would help lil ol' me" smirking she shook her head " they are way to over protective"
"they just want to know your safe" he said and sat down next to her. "did you find a place for them to sleep?"
"yeah Nate is crashing in the boys room and Mom is in your room, if that's okay?" she said and then realized she should have asked.
"Its alright, its kind of your room now anyways" he said grinning at her. Shaking her head again she stood an walked over to the sink. Pouring the last of her wine down the drain she sighed.
"I'm going to need tomorrow off. With them here I'm going to have to find a place soon. Or you'll be over run with the rest of my family when they show up"
"Don't worry take as much time as you need" he said and walked over to her as she put her head in her hands "hey , its going to be okay. You can stay as long as you need too"
"I know its just, I wanted to be in a new place by the time I told them what happened. And if you think Nate is bad just wait until the rest of them show up."
"the rest of them?" he asked
"My Uncle Tito, My sister Eve and my grandmother Caroline will be coming next week" she said and sighed when she felt him pull her into a hug. He was not only rich handsome and caring, the man could give one hell of a hug.
"We'll find you a place real quick. How about I take the rest of the week off with you and help?"
"No Daniel I can't ask you to do that" she said and leaned back to look up at him "I've already taken over your home. I can't ask you to take time off of work to help me find one of my own"
"Your not asking, I'm just going to. My mother would love to take over for a little while" he said and kissed her forehead.
Siobhan about melted. The things she could imagine him doing with those lips. Stepping back she chuckled when she hit the sink "ouch"
"can't get away from me that quick" he joked and stepped back to give her some space. "Come on I'll sleep on the floor tonight and you can have to couch"
Smiling she took his hand a squeezed it. "first you let me move in, then you buy my kids loads of Christmas presents. Now your giving up the last comfortable place to sleep. What next? Your fortune?"
She was joking and she was sure he knew she was but when his face got serious she worried that she had said something wrong. "Daniel I was just…"
"no, I would do anything to make you and your kids happy."_
Daniel lay awake early the next morning looking at a sleeping Siobhan. She snored. Not an annoying snore, but a soft one. Huffing he got up and rand his hand though his hair. He shouldn't be thinking about her. She was his assistant. The only one he ever had that even compared to Betty. But for some reason she was in his mind constantly. He liked getting up every morning and listening to her get the kids ready, he liked tripping over the little ones as he tried to make breakfast and chasing Alex around the house trying to get him to put some clothes on. His loft had been so cold and lonely after his wife had died and now that Siobhan and her kids where here it seemed more like a home.
Shaking his head he walked into the kitchen and was greeted with the smell off something delicious.
"Mrs. O'Dell, you don't have to cook" he said
"Mr. Meade! I didn't hear you get up. Come come, I'll make you a plate" she said and shooed him to the table. "And I love to cook, I have a large family, its natural to me"
"Mrs.…."
"Call me Paula! Now here eat up, everyone else will be up soon and then there will be none left" She said and put a plate in front of him. He smiled when he saw chorizo and eggs, with a tortilla.
"Betty's father used to make this all the time when I stayed over" he said and began to eat
"Ahhh, the beloved Betty, yes Siobhan has told me about her" Paula laughed as she sat down across from him with her coffee. "told me she wasn't sure she'd ever live up to her"
"Siobhan is a God send. I couldn't have picked anyone better to take over"
"Now, Daniel. Tell me…. What are your intentions with my daughter?" Daniel almost choked on his food. Looking over at the woman he laughed and shook his head,
" I was at least hoping this conversation would wait until after I ate"
"well my daughter is living in your home." she asked
"I am just a friend. I would have done the same for Betty, and I do believe her family took me in a time or two." he said and leaned back in the chair.
"I just worry. Siobhan just up and moved half way across the country. Saying she needed a new start. I worry that she didn't think things through" Daniels softened at the look on her face.
"She's doing okay, despite her house burning down." He watched as she nodded and then tucked back into his plate.
"Aye! Mother! I missed your cooking" Siobhan said as she came into the kitchen and eagerly scooped herself up a plate.
"yes I know you did. Now what have you been feeding my grandchildren? They look like skin and bones" Daniel smiled, this is what he would miss when they all moved out.
Thinking about what Siobhan's mother had asked him. He questioned himself. What were his intentions toward Siobhan. He knew he felt something, and he knew he loved her kids as if they where his own.
He knew when they did move out he would be lonely again and he didn't want that. He had to do something. And he had to do it fast.
