Thirty Seven

Dinner tonight was just with Summer, Spring, and Ruby, as Cameron had told her he wasn't coming home early tonight.

“Where’s Daddy?” that had been the first question Spring asked when she came down for dinner.

“He's going to be late tonight. Just sit down to eat your dinner so that you can go to bed early.” She said.

“But I want to wait for Daddy.” She said, pushing out her bottom lip in a pout. "He has to read me a bedtime story.” She said.

Ruby sighed with a shake of her head. "No, Spring. You can't wait up for him. It's a school night. I'll read you a story.” She said, promising her.

“But why is he staying out late?” she asked, still not satisfied. Ruby wished she knew the answer to that because when he told her he would be coming home late, he had only told her that she shouldn't wait up. He had not really told her anything about why he would be doing that. Perhaps, he was going to be staying late at work.

She lifted her shoulder in a shrug. "I guess he has plenty of work to