Dating for Two (Matchmaking Mamas) by Marie Ferrarella
Author:Marie Ferrarella [Ferrarella, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-07-01T00:00:00+00:00
Chapter Nine
Erin had just fished out the key to her house and was about to put it in the front door lock when she heard the phone inside ringing.
Her adrenaline automatically sped up as she quickly pushed the key into the lock.
She had an answering machine and knew how to retrieve missed messages with the best of them, and more likely than not, the person on the other end of the line was either a wrong number or someone trying to get her to donate to some foundation created to look after retired, one-legged, cross-eyed carrier pigeons.
But whenever she heard her phone ringing, Erin always felt she had to do her very best to pick up the receiver before the person on the other end of the line hung up, no matter what.
Now was no exception.
Hurrying, Erin managed to unlock her door and get to the phone just as the fourth ring was kicking in. At that point, the call was being routed to voice mail.
She grabbed the receiver anyway and rather than waiting out the message, she tried to talk above her own voice, which was leaving instructions that every individual over the age of three knew by heart.
Hearing the shrilled piercing beep go off after her recorded message ended, Erin tried talking to the caller again.
“Hello, are you still there?” When she didn’t hear anything, she tried one last time. “Hello?”
This time, she heard someone respond. “Is this too soon?”
Already agitated, her heart stopped in midbeat, then sped up to make up for it. She paused for a moment, thinking she had to be imagining things. Still, she knew she had to ask.
“Steve?”
“Yes, it’s me.” She could almost hear his smile. “Is this too soon?”
She had no idea what he was talking about. “Too soon for what?”
“Too soon to invite you back?”
All but hugging the receiver against her ear, Erin felt warm all over. And she knew if she grinned any wider, she was in danger of rupturing her cheeks. Obviously he’d been serious when he told her that he’d had a nice time.
Still, she downplayed the moment. “You really hate to cook that much, huh?”
“Oh, I wasn’t inviting you back to cook for us,” he told her. “Although that certainly is an idea to keep on the back burner. I was actually thinking of inviting you out to a movie.”
She hadn’t been exaggerating about having an extremely busy schedule. It was a given and had been for the past three years of her life, but suddenly, confronted with this impromptu invitation, for the life of her she couldn’t remember a single thing she had written down on that schedule.
The only thing that she could remember was that warm feeling she’d had sitting at the dining room table with Steve and his son, talking. Laughing. For just the briefest instant, she knew exactly what it was that her mother kept telling her she was missing out on. She was missing out on the feeling of making a connection, of having a family to talk to, a family to just sit in silence with.
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