Lady Love. Diana Palmer

      “Yes, well, I’m sorry about all this,” Lila said. “He isn’t the most relaxing person to work around, even if he is my son.”

      “I had no right to say those things to him,” Merlyn said after a minute, cooler now. “I’ll apologize, if you like.”

      “And make him even more smug than he already is?” Lila exclaimed. “You will not!”

      Merlyn laughed. “All right, then.”

      Amanda came back minutes later, looking puzzled yet happy. “Daddy sat with me while I had breakfast,” she said. “He hasn’t done that in a long time. He even talked to me.”

      Merlyn and Lila exchanged shocked, faintly amused glances before they got back to work.