Legally in Love Boxed Set 1 by Jennifer Griffith

Author:Jennifer Griffith
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781975636210
Published: 2019-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Piper pulled item after item from Du Jour’s open fridge. Her arms were so full, she nearly dropped the covered glass dish of garlic butter. What would go well with garlic butter—besides oysters? Because oysters were a no-go. Same with anything chocolate, honey, watermelon, bananas, avocado…anything that could be misconstrued as an aphrodisiac—or actually be one, whether it was hokey science or not. The last thing she needed was more reason to feel attracted to Zach Travis, more clouding of her logic, more loss of her grip.

She was dithering as she stared at practically every item from the refrigerator now strewn across the countertops.

Speaking of science, food was science. Piper fully believed that. Food created moods. It created a feeling—of celebration, of mourning, of comfort. Ice cream after a breakup. Turkey before a nap. Food made things happen inside a person, and not just in their digestive systems. Whether or not food could ignite lust was up for debate, but no question food could create emotion.

Which was why she had to walk a very fine line today with the lunch she was cooking for Zach. She’d noticed he sent back his Chilean sea bass untouched when he was in here the other day with that cranky woman. He’d raved about her asparagus, though, and it was the girl who had insisted their plates be taken away. Maybe he hadn’t had a chance to eat it.

Then again, neither had Chad.

Strike one for Chad.

And no, she hadn’t made up her mind. This lunch was going to tell her what to do. Somehow a bolt from the blue would appear, and clarity would dawn in her mind.

Meanwhile, she stared at Reuben sandwich makings, some mushrooms, a green bunch of scallions, uninspired.

Yesterday Zach had claimed he’d been heading back to Du Jour for lunch—but more to see her, which was before he’d learned Piper was its chef. Warmth washed over her. One point for Zach. This must be what a comedian felt like when he was with a woman who appreciated his jokes, or a mechanic with a girl who admired his skills with a wrench: a good, self-worthy kind of a feeling. How sad it might be to be married to someone whose taste didn’t match her skills—someone who didn’t like to eat, for instance, because those people existed.

Well, more cold cereal for them. She’d stick with the butter and cream and garlic and spices of life.

Aha. Garlic butter. That would go well as a fry oil for the bread she’d baked, and then she could add a pasta with marinara and a side of greens. Simple, food without a message. Non-committal food. Nothing he could read anything into—like the fact she was wildly attracted to him and hated that he said he claimed to be interested in her only in a business sense.

Maybe his words said that, but his chemistry shouted otherwise.

She tingled when she remembered his breath’s caress on her lips.

“What are you doing?” Mitzi’s voice echoed from the floor to the ceiling and back again in the empty kitchen, waking Piper from her near-kiss-memory.

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