Begin Again (Paradise Place Book 17) by Natalie Ann

Author:Natalie Ann [Ann, Natalie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-09-07T16:00:00+00:00

16

Smile On My Face

The next morning, Liz rolled over and took inventory of her body.

Her head throbbed like a slow drum in a cheesy scary movie.

Good lord, she couldn’t remember the last time she’d had three glasses of wine.

Never.

Tanner always monitored her alcohol intake.

She thought it was because of the calories, but then she started to suspect that it had more to do with her slipping and saying something he didn’t want anyone to know.

She stretched and started to sniff the air.

Coffee? Something sweet?

She opened her eyes and saw Christian coming around the corner and into the room. “What do you have?”

“Breakfast in bed,” he said.

“Are you kidding?” she asked. No one had ever done that for her before. She wasn’t sure she ever wanted anyone to.

She wasn’t the breakfast-in-bed type of person.

But she found this kind of sweet.

“Nope,” he said. “I don’t kid about coffee and bacon and eggs.”

“I thought I smelled something sweet,” she said, looking at the plate he had. Her coffee was in the other hand. It’s not like she had any trays in her house to carry the food up in. That would be fancy and she was anything but.

“I tried to make cinnamon buns. You had one of those cans in the fridge.”

She lifted an eyebrow. “Tried? They aren’t that hard.”

She’d been looking forward to that treat. Nothing she indulged in often and it brought back some childhood nostalgia when she saw them at the store the other day.

Her father used to make them on Sunday mornings for her and Abby. The three of them would eat the whole thing that morning and she’d have this sugar high for hours.

Good times in her eyes.

She finally felt as if she was getting there in her life again when she wanted to remember things like that.

To experience them again.

“No,” he said. “They aren’t. But I was paying more attention to the bacon and didn’t set a timer and they got a bit browned. They are downstairs. Not horrible, but I didn’t want to bring anything up here that wasn’t just right.”

“That’s sweet,” she said. “Hand over the coffee. Not sure if I’ve got a headache from a slight hangover or the action on the island last night and having my head down some.”

He smiled. “Here you go.”

She took the black mug out of his hand and took a healthy sip of the creamy mixture that he’d made just right for her.

She was sick of black coffee that she’d drunk for years too. Again, those calories. She’d given it up because she didn’t care for the taste of it.

Being able to just make her coffee the way she wanted and slowly drink it was such a nice treat.

Crazy when she thought back to the things she let happen to herself.

“This is perfect,” she said. “I wouldn’t have noticed if the buns were burned or not.” She reached for a piece of bacon on the plate and popped it in her mouth. “Yummy.”

“Here,” he said. “Eat.”

“Can I take a shower first? I’m not one for eating in bed.

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