Abby's Christmas Spirit (Murphy Witch Sisters) by McCarthy Erin

Author:McCarthy, Erin [McCarthy, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance
Publisher: Erin McCarthy
Published: 2011-12-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

ABBY WATCHED DARIUS over her menu as he studied his. He had picked her up, spoken politely to her sister, and had driven her to the Busy Bee Diner for lunch in total silence. It seemed he intended to go on as he’d started. It didn’t bother her. She didn’t need to fill the air around her with inane chatter. She was comfortable just observing him, taking in the nuances of his mannerisms, the way he constantly smoothed out his eyebrows, and moved his lips slightly when he read. He didn’t have nervous tics, he didn’t jitter around on his chair, or repeatedly clear his throat. Yet she could tell when he was nervous, because he became unfailingly polite. From what she knew of him, he was commanding, confident, used to giving orders. Polite, yes, but not that nervous overcompensation he was displaying today.

“Why are you nervous?” she asked him, setting her menu down. She already knew what she wanted. She’d been coming to the Bee since she was a kid.

Darius gave a short laugh and shook his head. “You don’t hold anything back, do you? Or let anyone have their secret discomfort?”

She shrugged. “I don’t see any point in it. If I make you uncomfortable, why did you ask me to lunch?”

She knew the answer, but she wanted him to say it.

“Because I wanted to see you. It’s unnerving.”

He wasn’t going to elaborate. Leaving it alone for the time being, she asked him, “So did you grow up in Chicago?”

“Yes. My parents worked hard, but were always dead broke. But they have a really happy marriage. I bought them a house in Florida and that’s where they live now.”

“Are you an only child?”

“Yes. A love child.” He grinned. “I was born four months after my parents got married. And they were never able to have another baby, so I was it.” He reached for his iced tea. “They shot in a hole in one with me.”

He was obviously joking, but she had a feeling his parents had told him that, and had probably meant it. He radiated the confidence of a man who had been well-loved.

“What about you, Abby? I know you have two sisters. Are your parents still here?”

“Yes. They’re wildly in love still too. Truthfully, they’ve always been so into each other us kids felt like sometimes like we were intruding on their private love story. I think we’re all grateful to be grown and on our own so they can do their thing, which usually involves ritualistic cleansing in the nude.”

“Is that a joke?”

“I wish it was.” Abby made a face. “Do you know how scarring it is to a girl’s sexuality to have her parents tearing it up like sex was going out of style?”

His eyes darkened. “Your sexuality seems just fine to me.”

Abby felt the heat of his gaze between her thighs. “Thank you.” The diner was cozy, Christmas music cheerfully bouncing around the diner, and gold and silver balls hung up over the bar.

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