Midas Touch (The Hollows Book 1) by Penny Cavan

Author:Penny Cavan [Cavan, Penny]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-31T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty

Midas

“Are you ready?” I asked, holding back a grin. We stood on opposite sides of Ameliya’s counter, a plate of still warm chocolate chip cookies between us. Harlow rolled her eyes, both hands on the table. It was almost a crime that she’d never had one of these cookies before, but I would forever be grateful to watch this moment.

“Midas, it’s a cookie. I don’t think it’s going to be as life altering as you keep implying,” she said dryly, one hand inching to the plate.

“Oh, ye of little faith,” I said, nodding to the plate. “If you think your life isn’t about to be change, take a cookie.” She rolled her eyes at me. She took a cookie and studied it between her fingers.

“Hmmm,” she started. “It appears to be a baked good, and still warm. It smells like butter and sugar,” she said sniffing. She transferred it to her other hand. “It leaves a slight residue on the fingers.”

“Stop playing the scientist and just try it already!” Ameliya exclaimed from the table by the window where she was working on something. Harlow descended into giggles as she took her first bite of the cookie. She was silenced as her eyes went wide. She stared at me, then down at the cookie, then back at me as she chewed, and quickly finished the cookie, grabbing another with one hand.

“Oh my god,” she said reverently. “These are amazing!” She groaned as she bit into the next cookie, her eyes sliding shut, and I adjusted how I was standing. “How are they so sweet?” She looked back at me with wide eyes and a smear of chocolate on her lip.

“It’s the chocolate,” I said after clearing my throat. I reached over and wiped the chocolate from her lip. I showed it to her. “You said the only chocolate you’d had was bitter, it was probably dark chocolate. These are milk chocolate.” I stuck my finger in my mouth and sucked the chocolate from my finger. Harlow blushed and stuck another cookie in her mouth. I laughed and took a cookie of my own. “I told you that waiting would be worth it.”

“I could eat nothing but these forever,” Harlow said.

“I’m pretty sure that you have said that about everything you’ve eaten since you arrived,” I said dryly.

“The food is better here,” Harlow said, frowning. “Even Meg can’t get food of this quality.” She set down a cookie.

“I know,” I said, reaching across the counter to take her hand. “It’s not fair, and I already know that you would like to solve the problem. Let’s solve one problem first, then we can work on solving the rest of the problems of the city.”

“We?” she asked, raising an eyebrow.

“We,” I said. “We’re a team now, Harlow. Your dreams and goals are mine, whether I fully believe in them or not, and I hope that mine are yours.” She chewed on her bottom lip.

“Can we take some of these to Arida’s?” she asked. “I know a little girl who would absolutely love them” I grinned knowing Addy would.

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