Coming Home to Maple Cottage: The perfect, cosy, feel-good romance by Holly Martin

Author:Holly Martin
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786816023
Publisher: Bookouture

Chapter Fifteen

Isla had decided to have a bubble bath in preparation for her glamorous evening. Leo had a big hot-tub-style bath with jets and she had been dying to try it out for some time. She needed this distraction tonight – the bath, going out, celebrating with Melody. Sitting at home gave her too much time to think and worry. Of course, the bath hadn’t been as relaxing as Isla had hoped for as Elliot had insisted on joining her too and a T-rex, a rubber rocket, a water pistol and a few Lego men had also made it into the bath tub with them, many of them floating up her end as she lay in the warm water.

‘This bath is way more fun than ours,’ Elliot said as he pressed the button for the jets for the umpteenth time. ‘When you get married and we live here, we can go in this bath every day.’

‘That would be cool, but sometimes if you do something that’s fun every day, then it stops becoming fun,’ Isla said.

Elliot wrinkled up his nose as if he didn’t understand.

‘Don’t listen to her, buddy,’ Leo said, walking into the bathroom. ‘There are some things I could do every single day and never ever get bored of it.’

‘Like what?’ Elliot said.

Leo grabbed the little bathrobe he had bought for Elliot off the back of the door and held it out for him. Elliot stepped up onto the side of the bath and held out his arms as if he was a king about to be dressed.

Leo flashed Isla a glance that was dark and laced with intent. ‘Like hugging Isla. I could do that all day, every day, and it’d never be enough.’

Isla smirked, knowing full well he wasn’t talking about hugging.

Leo wrapped the robe around him, then scooped Elliot up and threw him over his shoulder.

‘I like hugging Isla too,’ Elliot said, as he hung upside down.

‘Let’s get you dressed and then you can give Isla a big hug before you go off to Marigold’s shortly,’ Leo said. He turned back to Isla before he left. ‘Your dress is on the bed and we have about half an hour before we have to leave.’

‘I’ll be ready.’

Leo left her alone in the bathroom and she relished in the quiet for a few moments, the bubbles trickling through her toes, before she got out, patted herself dry and pulled on her robe.

She paused for a second outside the bathroom, wondering which bed Leo had meant. She peered round the door of Leo’s bedroom and her heart leapt when she spotted a gold dress on the bed. Mainly because it wasn’t hers. She stepped closer and saw it was a fifties-style gown with a flared skirt. The bodice and shoulders were almost completely covered gold sequins which faded out into the lower part of the dress. It was beautiful and entirely unlike anything else she owned. There was even a pair of shoes to match. Leo had bought this for her.

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