Heart to Heart by Layce Gardner

Author:Layce Gardner [Gardner, Layce]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-02-18T00:00:00+00:00

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Parker brought the steaks in and they sat down at the dining room table. The table was made of burnished wood. Amy ran her hand over its smooth top. “Is this made out of one tree?”

Setting down the salad bowl with tongs, Parker smiled. “Most people don’t notice that.”

Amy refrained from saying “I notice everything about you.” Instead, she said, “It’s so beautiful.”

“It’s actually two sections of a black walnut tree that I interlocked and squared off. Steph helped me cut the tree down. She was a gorgeous old tree, but her time had come. The dining room table is my tribute to her long life.”

“You’re a romantic at heart,” Amy said, as Parker lit two tapers and lowered the lights.

“I don’t know what makes you say that,” Parker replied. She smiled.

Amy was starving. She ate her entire porterhouse steak, two helpings of salad, three pieces of fresh Italian bread, and a glass of merlot. Parker beat her by one extra piece of bread.

Parker got up and began clearing away the dishes. Amy got up to help. “Oh, no you don’t,” Parker said. “You’re the guest. Your job is to pick out a record.”

“But…”

“Nope, no exceptions to the guest rule,” Parker said. She squinted her eyes and stared.

“Is that your stern look?”

“Yes, it is.”

“All right, then. It worked. I’ll pick out music as instructed.”

“Good,” Parker said. She returned to the dishes.

Amy sat, legs crossed, on the thick Persian rug, and thumbed through the albums. She gasped. “You have a Steely Dan.”

“Correction. I have all of Steely Dan,” Parker said, looking over at Amy. She had a dish cloth draped over her shoulder and her hands were sudsy.

This moment of domesticity struck Amy hard. Her heart seemed to swell. Could one fall in love just like that? She loved Parker. She knew it that moment. As much as she had scoffed over stories of people falling in love too quickly, she knew it had just happened to her. In years to come, she’d look back at this and know that this was when it had happened—this was the exact moment she had fallen in love. Parker would laugh at her when she told her five years from now about the precise moment she knew Parker had captured her heart.

Now the only thing left to do was capture Parker’s heart.

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