Her Surprise Engagement (Sorensen Family) by Ashlee Mallory

Author:Ashlee Mallory [Mallory, Ashlee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Bliss)
Published: 2017-06-18T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

A couple of hours later, Daisy kneaded the warm chocolatey empanada dough onto the counter, finding herself oddly at peace. From outside, there was a shout and she looked out the window to see Jack chasing the kids around the lawn with a massive water gun.

“Don’t even think about getting me,” her aunt warned from a chair set a few feet away from the chaos.

“Get me! Get me!” the kids shouted, despite their shrieks moments before when he had done just that. Daisy smiled, shaking her head at their antics.

It felt almost…too perfect.

She knew that. She was going down a dangerous road by not telling Jack first thing this morning that enough was enough. That as tempting as his offer was, once they returned home, and back to their regular lives, they’d face the reality of the situation.

What they had here, tucked away in this part of the world, was only a fantasy life.

Living here in this big beautiful house…enjoying kisses and touches from a guy who was not only generous and kind and funny but also sinfully sexy to look at…doing fun and adventurous things without worry about how much things would cost or how much of a bite it would take out of her paycheck…

None of this was reality.

Back in the real world—her world—she’d be trying to figure out how much in groceries she’d have to cut back on to cover last month’s electric bill and still allow her to put aside enough money to buy the kids new jackets for the fall.

On the other hand, another voice was there telling her that all that stress would be waiting for her at home soon enough.

What was the harm in enjoying, for this brief moment in time, this little glimpse of a life that was close to perfect?

She knew why.

Because she’d want it forever. And when it all came crashing down, she might never recover from this one.

The timer went off over the stove, and she grabbed the hot pads and went to check on lunch. The top of the empanadas were a golden brown exactly as she wanted them. Satisfied, she pulled them out and set them on counter. After Jack’s assurance after breakfast that he didn’t mind her driving his ’67 Ford Mustang convertible, she had gone to two grocery stores to pick up all the ingredients she would need for her recipes and the menu she had planned for testing today.

She grinned at the memory of driving alone in that classic car. There had been something freeing about letting her hair blow in the wind as she drove down the street, almost without a care in the world. Another thing she could get used to.

Daisy was stirring the chocolate mixture for the dessert she had planned for later, when her phone buzzed with an incoming call. She looked at the caller ID and grabbed the phone, excited to talk to her sister.

“If it isn’t ‘the mysterious woman who has stolen the heart of the most

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