Fed Up by Kathleen Duhamel

Author:Kathleen Duhamel [Duhamel, Kathleen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781640348493
Publisher: Limitless Publishing, LLC
Published: 2019-08-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

Shelby

As much as I enjoyed having Danielle at home, her impromptu visit had put a serious kink in my ability to spend time with Ian. Each morning brought me one day closer to his return to California, which I tried not to think about because it made my stomach twist.

I’m not attached, and I have no expectations. That’s what I kept reminding myself, while my insides were telling me an entirely different story. The email he sent me after Saturday night’s dinner, although a little odd, was surprisingly endearing, like the man himself. What had I gotten myself into?

Monday night I served him coq au vin, which he insisted was “superb,” along with a fresh garden salad and crusty bread. After dinner we moved into the living room and sat on the sofa together, my head resting on his shoulder.

“Forgive me for asking,” he said, “and don’t take this the wrong way, but when, exactly, is Danielle going home?”

After I told him she was planning to return to Alexandria on Wednesday, his mood lifted.

“Then we’re on for this weekend?” he asked. “I’ll do my best to be entertaining and stay up past eight o’clock.”

Within a few minutes he had dozed off, so I gathered up my things and went home, making it back to my house shortly after nine p.m. Dani was curled up on the now-infamous sunroom sofa with both cats, watching a movie.

She hit the Pause button on the remote before asking, “Are we all set for tomorrow?”

I tossed her a black wristband embossed with Sutherland’s Ghosts’ logo.

“Ian suggests we get there mid-morning and stay through lunch.”

As she looked me over, I started to wither under the scrutiny of my own child.

“What? Is my makeup smeared? Are my clothes on straight?”

She offered a brief smile.

“I’m still trying to wrap my mind around the fact that my mother is dating an actor I once had a crush on.”

Well, that revelation might account for some of her hostility, along with more than a hint of jealousy. In the end, however, none of it would matter. By the time she got around to accepting our short-term relationship, Ian would be back in California and out of my life.

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