Gentlemen Prefer Curves: A Perfect Fit Novel by Sugar Jamison

Author:Sugar Jamison [Jamison, Sugar]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: dpgroup.org, IDS@DPG
ISBN: 9781466826304
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2014-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 15

Stuck in the middle with you …

Three days later Belinda and her father walked into Durant’s community center. Three years ago it had been rebuilt, turning a once aging building to a place where the people of Durant could truly come together. During the day it was a place the elderly hung out to play cards, swap gossip, and share sips of Irish coffee out of the big thermoses with them, but in the afternoons it turned into a school, with classes on photography, computers, art, and fitness.

And that’s why they were there. Belinda had been thinking about it for weeks now, about finding a way to better herself. But all of her big plans seemed to fall by the wayside the day Carter came back into her life. She was mad at herself for letting him change her plans, the way she lived her life. So when her father called her and told her that he had signed up for woodworking and introduction to Spanish classes and asked if she wanted to join him, she jumped at the chance.

Her Spanish was good, thanks to her mother speaking it to her as a child, and there was no way in hell she was going to take woodworking, but Cherri was teaching a beginning painting class across the hall from her father’s class and her father had promised to take her out to dinner after class each week. Something about seeing Ruby and Carter together made her appreciate her father more. He wasn’t openly affectionate with her like Carter was with his daughter, but she had no doubt he loved her. She knew that he was still trying to make up for her first twelve years when she had seen him more on TV than she had in their home.

“Why woodworking, Dad?” she asked at they walked down the hall toward their classes.

“Pops used to make things for the house. Tables and cabinets and stuff. I’ve always wanted to do it, too, but he never taught me. He always made sure I was out practicing ball. I guess he was right in a way. Ballplaying worked out for me, but I still want to learn. I want to make a rocking chair one day. We had two when we were kids. My parents used to sit out there after dinner and just look out into the yard. My mama still does it, even though Pop has been gone for twenty years. You think your mother would like one of those, Junior?”

“Yes. She would love it. That’s a really sweet thought, Dad. Are you learning Spanish for Mamá, too?”

“I really just want to know what the damn woman is saying behind my back.”

She shook her head, remembering her mother’s colorful language. “You don’t want to know.”

“No,” he nodded, “maybe I don’t. But I’m going to retire soon. I’ve talked to a travel agent. I’m going to take your mother on a big trip to Europe.”

“But you hate Europe.”

“I do. Especially those damn pretentious French and don’t get me started on those Germans.

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