Love Me Carefully by A. C. Arthur

Author:A. C. Arthur
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58571-525-1
Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corp.
Published: 2006-07-01T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER NINE

Leah rolled her bologna and cheese into a log before taking a bite. In no way did it compare to a real meal, but it would have to suffice. At least she wouldn’t starve, she thought to herself.

“Why did you roll it like that? Does it make it taste any better?”

“Not really, but when I was a little girl my mother bought only bologna, I guess because it was cheaper than other lunch meats, and she had so many of us to feed.” She didn’t know why she’d added that last statement, but shrugged, since it was already said. There was nothing she could do about it now. “Anyway, I didn’t like the taste of it, but if I didn’t eat what she prepared, then I didn’t eat. So I would roll it with the cheese, which was always sliced thicker than the bologna because we used to get the government allotment. That way, I’d taste more cheese than I did bologna. I’d fill my stomach and not get yelled at.”

“Oh, I see.” He didn’t really. Since he didn’t have any siblings, food had never been rationed in his house. There had been times when it wasn’t his mother’s pay week and they’d had to eat leftovers two nights in a row, but Rosie always cooked more than enough for the two of them.

“How many sisters and brothers do you have?” Mimicking her movements, he rolled his meat with his cheese and took a test bite.

“I have four brothers, all of them younger. Two are still at home.”

“That’s why you’re so bossy.” Terrell decided that the bologna was much easier to stomach when accompanied by the cheese, and took another bite. She was right again.

“I’m not bossy,” she pouted. “I just know what I want.”

“And what is it that you want, Miss Wedding Planner?” The last was said in a prissy, girlish voice that made her giggle.

“I want my business to be successful.” Unaware that she was still smiling at him, she stretched out on the blanket on her stomach.

“That’s all you want?” The bologna and cheese almost got stuck in his throat and he coughed. Did she have any idea how seductive she looked right at that moment? Her long legs, extending from a magnificently round bottom, stretched across the blanket. Her elbows were propped and supported the weight of her upper body. Her breasts hung low, brushing the blanket.

“Yeah, for right now anyway. Why? What do you want?” She popped the last of her bologna concoction into her mouth and chewed.

“We’re not talking about me.” At least not anymore. He’d told her enough already. “You don’t want to get married or have a family?” Finishing his bologna roll, he took another drink of water.

Adamantly, she shook her head in the negative. “No. Definitely not.” Even as she answered she wondered how truthful she was being.

Taken aback by her response, he stifled the disappointment coursing through him. “Why not?”

“Marriages don’t last,” she said simply.

“Some do,” he countered.

Her eyes remained steady on his.

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