Her Name Is Trouble: A small-town contemporary romance (The Daimsbury Chronicles Book 2) by Zee Monodee

Author:Zee Monodee [Monodee, Zee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rose of Atlantis Press
Published: 2015-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

He’d stayed the night.

Missy awoke with a smile the next morning. From where she lay propped amid the downy pillows and soft bedding, she could glimpse him in the kitchen. Buck-naked. What a sight to wake up to. Those abs looked even more defined in real life; so it hadn’t been Photoshop on those posters. Delicious smells like butter and herbs tickled her nostrils. He was making breakfast? Swoon...

The realization the past night had brought slithered in, but she pushed the notion away. Nothing would come of that, and she’d take what she’d gotten with him and treasure it for the rest of her life. The memory would carry her through.

Did he feel her avid gaze on him? He turned and grinned at her, waving the whisk in his hand.

“’Morning,” he said.

“Hey,” she replied, the sound like a purr. She felt boneless in that bed, and wished for that moment to never shatter into drab reality. So she stayed put and kept on watching him putter around the Aga.

A few moments later, he joined her on the mattress, two plates in his hands.

“Get up, sleepyhead. The food’s gonna grow cold.”

She propped herself against the pillows and smiled at him. “I’m the one who invited you over for a meal. That didn’t imply you had to cook, too.”

“It’s nice to make breakfast for a girl.”

A flare of jealousy burst in her chest. So he cooked for all his bed mates...

“I don’t get that chance very often, you know,” he continued.

Relief flooded through her and she crashed back into the soft down.

He handed her a fork, and she took a swipe at the omelette in front of her. An explosion of taste erupted on her tongue—butter, eggs, cheese, mushrooms, thyme, and was that nutmeg?

“Oh my, this is divine,” she said around a bite.

He laughed. “You have a very well-stocked pantry.”

She waved the fork in the air. “Courtesy of Ben. I hardly get the chance to cook, though, because he’s always using me as his guinea pig at the restaurant.”

Before she knew it, she’d polished off her plate.

Luke watched her with a pensive expression on his face, his omelette only half-eaten.

“What?” she asked. Did she maybe have egg on her nose? To wipe it now would look too obvious.

“It’s good to see you eat.”

“Oh.” Missy frowned. What was he getting at?

He must’ve seen the confusion on her face, because he grabbed both plates and placed them on the bedside table. Then he scooted closer to her and picked up her hands.

“I’m gonna tell you something, but please listen to me all the way through, okay?”

Uh-oh. This sounded bad... She nodded.

He took a deep breath. “You know about me and Mary Beth, innit?”

She forced on a smile.

Great; just peachy. He was still hung up on his ex-girlfriend.

Luke continued. “I guess you know how she came out as an anorexic a little while ago.”

She’d heard about that through Jenny—the supermodel had caused a media furore when she’d announced her sickness and subsequent retirement from modelling during an online live press conference in New York.

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