Fine Lines and Twinkles: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novel (Back Forty Bliss) by Ainsley Ashworth

Author:Ainsley Ashworth [Ashworth, Ainsley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-07-26T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter Seven

Jay tossed his gloves onto the seat as he held the door open for Millie. “She made me do it,” he said.

“Lucky for you, I loved the surprise,” Millie said. “I wondered why it was almost easy to get you here. But not too easy. Are you coming back with us tomorrow?” she asked.

“Uh, nah. I’ve got some project ideas rolling around in my head after today. I think I might start on one of those. They’re pretty much done with the framing and drywall, anyway. It’s mostly the fluffy stuff left.”

“The fluffy stuff?” Kiki asked from the back seat. “Painting is fluffy?”

“Well, you know what I mean. Anyone can do it.”

The ladies laughed. If he’d seen the colors fly and the clean-up involved, he wouldn’t be discounting it as fluff. “Yep, it’s a piece of cake,” Millie said.

“Or pie,” Kiki countered as they both cracked up again.

“I think you guys inhaled too many fumes today,” Jay said.

“We’ll take a hike to the house site when we get home so we’ll get plenty of fresh air. Do you want to come?”

“I’ll think about it,” Jay said. “I don’t know how much forest I can take tonight.”

“I’ll only be here for the weekend. My first kid-free weekend in forever,” Kiki said. “Don’t you want to spend all the time you can with your favorite daughter?”

Jay chuckled. “If you put it that way...But, dinner first. And I believe I was promised salsa.”

“Salsa first, for sure,” Millie said. “We all know what you’re like when you’re hungry.” She hadn’t put anything in the crockpot or pressure cooker before they’d left and she wasn’t even sure there was anything ready to cook in the fridge. She’d been occupied with preparing for a few days of hard labor, not entertaining company. Kiki wasn’t exactly company, though. And maybe she could try out her gifts on dinner. It was a service for other people right? Sure, she’d benefit from a quick defrost of a steak or two, but the bulk of the energy would be spent on making a great meal for people she loved. That should keep her from choking on hers. She hoped it would, anyway.

The sun hung just above the mountains to the west as they pulled up to the cabin. “I love the longer summer days,” Millie said.

Jay laughed. “That’s not what you say when you cover your head with your pillow at four-thirty every morning.”

“If someone would let me pull the blinds at night, it would be just fine if the sun wanted to get up before a reasonable hour.”

“And then we’d sleep until ten,” Jay said.

“Like I said, a reasonable hour.”

“Okay, you old married people,” Kiki teased. “You keep this up and I might have to separate you.”

“Not a bad idea,” Jay said. “I could sleep in the guest room.” He winked, letting Kiki and Millie know he was joking. The only reason Millie slept well out in the woods at all was that Jay was by her side. That one miserable night he’d stayed away had been torture.

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