His Curvy Mate (Alpha Prime Book 2) by Georgette St. Clair

Author:Georgette St. Clair [St. Clair, Georgette]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Creel walked up to the front door. Miranda was sitting on a bench out front doing something with a crochet needle and a ball of yarn, and she barely glanced his way as he strolled up. She was dressed warmly for the summer weather, wearing a turtleneck even though it was eighty degrees out. And she seemed completely uninterested in his presence.

“I, uh, stopped by your store earlier to see if you needed a ride home, but Hephzibah said that Suki gave you a ride,” Creel said. “So I went into town to run some errands.”

“Yep,” Miranda said. She glanced at him briefly, then returned to her crochet project. He felt his stomach clench. He’d screwed up this morning. He’d screwed up badly. “I made dinner for you and washed a few dishes. Didn’t look like much else needed to be cleaned up.”

“Okay. Thanks. Are you going to come in?” Creel asked her. “I can wait to eat until you’re ready.”

“Maybe later,” she said. “I’ll eat when you’re done. Look on the bright side – dinner will be nice and quiet for you.”

“Yeah. Quiet.” Creel wasn’t as happy about that as he would have expected.

He walked into the kitchen and found a beef stew simmering in a crockpot. He came out a couple of minutes later carrying a tray with two bowls on it, with the dinner that she’d cooked. And there was also a paper bag on the tray. He handed the bag to her, then sat down next to her.

She opened the bag. It was the honeysuckle shampoo she’d admired the other day. He’d remembered.

“What’s this for?” Miranda asked.

“I guess I might have been a little bit of a jerk this morning,” Creel said. “This is my way of apologizing. Dig in – the food’s amazing. A really sexy chick cooked it for me.”

Miranda couldn’t help but smile. “Who is she?” she said, shoveling a spoonful of stew into her mouth. “I’m going to find her and death-challenge her ass.”

“I don’t know about that, I get the idea that she’s tougher than she looks,” Creel said.

Miranda opened the bottle of shampoo and inhaled deeply, imagining herself wrapped in honeysuckle vines.

“Apology accepted,” she said.

“I shouldn’t have taken my temper out on you. This is just a hard month for me, and seeing Benjamin was like pouring salt into an open wound. My brother is the main reason I moved to this territory,” Creel said. “I hope to hell he doesn’t think he’s settling up here, because the two of us in one territory isn’t going to work. Hell, the two of us in the same state would be an issue.”

“Do you want to tell me what all of that was about?” Miranda said.

“My brother is a disloyal, traitorous son of a bitch who made my parents’ sacrifice meaningless and betrayed me and our pack.” Creel’s tone was bitter, and carried worlds of pain.

“I’m sorry to hear that about your parents,” Miranda said. “They were always nice to me.”

“You knew my parents?” Creel stared at her in puzzlement, and Miranda could have bitten her tongue off.

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