Games of the Heart by Pamela Yaye

Author:Pamela Yaye
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kimani Press
Published: 2009-09-24T04:00:00+00:00

Cone-shaped lights, and round tables showered with silverware, candles and appetizer trays pilled high with finger foods filled the second-floor banquet hall. Guests had been greeted by uniformed servers, offered a glass of sparkling club soda and accompanied to their seats. After a brief welcome from the vice principal and a toast to the graduating class, people made their way to their tables.

“Dessert, Ms.?”

Sage glanced up from her coffee cup. Lowering it, she inspected the plates on the dainty silver tray. Amaretto cream cake, pecan pie and cherry crisp were on the menu and she could already taste the vanilla icing in her mouth. After a grueling hike, wiping out repeatedly on the slopes and breaking two fingernails, she deserved a treat. It didn’t matter that she’d had two plates of food. What was the point of exercising if you couldn’t indulge every now and then?

“I’ll have the double-decker chocolate fudge cake,” she told the waiter, handing him her empty dinner plate. “And if it’s not too much trouble, can I have another glass of wine and a couple more of those lemon pie tarts?”

Nodding, he put down the dessert and marched off.

“I hate you.”

Conversation ceased around the table. Staring wordlessly at Geraldine Buford, a mother of four with Goddess braids, Sage pointed a finger at her chest. “Me?”

“Yes, you! I can’t stand women like you.”

Sage laughed to cover her embarrassment. “Why? What did I do?”

“You can eat whatever you want without fear of gaining weight.” The humor in her voice shone through. “If I so much as look at a piece of chocolate, I gain ten pounds!”

Laughter rang out. Sage turned to Geraldine’s husband, a short, tubby, balding man in his fifties. “You better keep a close eye on your wife because she was wooing them out on the slopes today. I caught a male instructor hitting on her!”

More chuckles. Geraldine may have been born in the sixties, but she had the face, the body and the vigor of a thirty-year-old. The motivational speaker had been the one to organize the senior girls’ slumber party, and when the teens conked out at midnight, she’d ordered dessert and cocktails for the chaperones. Four apple martinis and a New York cheesecake later, and the women were dishing the dirt about the men in their lives.

“I don’t have to ask if you’re having a good time,” Marshall said, touching the back of her neck. “You’ve charmed everyone, even Principal Rupert, and that old man never smiles!”

“I’m not the only one making an impression. I didn’t know you used to be a chef,” she said, wishing he didn’t look so damn sexy. They had turned heads when they’d entered the reception hall and Sage had caught the jealous stares of the female guests. There was nothing sexier than a handsome, extratall brother, and tonight Marshall Grant was every woman’s dream. “Why didn’t you tell me you know how to cook? You know I love to eat!”

“I’ve had every job under the sun.” Shaking

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