Dreaming Eli by JoMarie DeGioia

Author:JoMarie DeGioia
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: family saga, vacation romance, small town romance, contemporary romantic comedy, wealthy man romantic comedy
Publisher: JoMarie DeGioia

Chapter 11

Oh dark thirty on Friday morning, or four thirty actually, Caro was humming as she sampled a tiny taste of the mixture of spices in the small glass bowl. Adding another teaspoon of nutmeg, she jotted it down on the recipe card and stirred.

“What has you so happy this morning?” Jane asked as she switched out baked cupcakes for ready-to-bake in the big oven.

Caro felt her cheeks warm but she kept her eyes on the swirl of brown spices. “Just breathing in the scent of fall in a bowl, Jane.”

Jane went quiet and Caro hesitantly brought her eyes up to hers. The older woman was shaking her head as she closed the oven door. “I’m not buying it. You were mopey at the beginning of the week and now?”

“Now I’m not mopey?” Caro offered.

“You’re downright chipper. Something happened.”

Yeah, it did. “I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Jane snorted as she lifted the cupcakes onto a rack to cool. “I know you, Caro. I’ve seen you in the wee hours of the morning when nothing can hide.”

“You don’t know everything about me.” Caro sprinkled the spice mixture into the biscotti dough she’d already prepped. “Can’t a girl have secrets?”

Jane laughed now. “A girl can try, but I’m thinking something happened with that blond god we all know and lust after.”

Caro smiled and slipped on a pair of plastic prep gloves. “He’s not a god, but he’s sure close.”

Jane’s mouth dropped open. “You… You and Eli… Something happened.”

Caro turned the spiced dough onto the wide wooden board as she shook her head. “As you’ve said, you’re old enough to be his mother. You can’t possibly want to hear just what happened last night, do you?”

Jane clasped her hands together, the smile wreathing her face making her look closer to twenty than fifty. “Did you let your fingers do the walking?”

Caro’s hands stilled on the dough. “How could you possibly know that?”

Jane lifted her chin at the pile of dough. “Just look.”

Caro saw that she’d smoothed the dough into a long, thick cylinder and shook her head. “You have a dirty mind, Jane. I’m making biscotti.”

“Maybe that’s a good thing. That looks pretty darn big to me.” Jane opened her mouth to say something else that would probably have Caro confessing to what else had happened last night when the oven timer went off. “This isn’t over.”

Caro gave a noncommittal shrug and returned her focus to the completely-innocent biscotti dough. Kneading it thoroughly to mix in all the spices, she let her mind drift back to the incredible way Eli had made her feel. She’d teased him, which always seemed to get him to say the cheesiest or most outrageous lines. The banter had been absent as they’d begun to tease each other in an entirely different way. Oh, she’d never been so bold before but she’d had to get her hands on him.

She began to add the chopped walnuts to the dough, and was soon humming again as she mixed everything together.

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