My Funny Valentina (A Short, Sexy, Scintillating Novella) by Curry Kelly

Author:Curry, Kelly [Curry, Kelly]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2013-03-07T05:00:00+00:00

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‘SHE’S ALL BUCKLED safely in,’ Valentina announced climbing up into the passenger seat of the fully loaded, luxury SUV with newly inserted car seat, slamming the door closed behind her. ‘We’re ready to go ho –’

She cut off the last word abruptly. They weren’t going home – home for her and Zoey was a bright, sunny condo in Orange County paid for with her wages working as a receptionist at a prestigious private school there. It was a perfect arrangement as the school had a nursery as well, where Zoey was allowed to stay for free. Affording Valentina the invaluable perk of being able to check in on her daughter often. Running over numerous times on her breaks to where the small children and infants were housed to feed her or just to cuddle and get a whiff of her addictive baby smell.

Stash glanced in the rear view mirror at his daughter in the back. A low rumble of laughter rose to his lips watching her antics as she tried repeatedly in vain to grab at a stuffed bear just out of her reach, strapped in as securely as she was, wearing a fluffy pink coat and matching wooly hat with ears that made her look like the world’s most adorable bunny. ‘She’s stubborn,’ he murmured.

Valentina smiled. She poked her head around her leather headrest, reaching back and handing Zoey the bear to her delighted gurgle. ‘Yes…she’s a lot like you.’ She shifted a look his way quickly, ‘and she looks like you too…’

Stash gave another rough laugh, ‘she’s got my hair, that’s for sure. But she’s the spitting image of you, Val…absolutely…beautiful.’

A weighted silence fell in the car after his low pronouncement, colored in only by Zoey’s babyish coos as Stash drove at a careful speed over the recently plowed and salted streets, a heavy snowfall drifting down again in the glow of headlights in the inky night sky. It was such a beautiful sight, Valentina thought, staring out the windshield thinking how she had missed this in perpetually sun-drenched California. So many people dreaded Chicago’s long brutal winters, but she’d always reveled in them – in the stark grandeur of it.

The solemn quiet of a blanket of fresh snow covering everything in sight. The anticipation of returning home to a roaring fire crackling in the fireplace. A warm hearty meal cooking in the oven to welcome home chilled, hungry travelers. Except there hadn’t been a meal waiting that last night in their home. Valentina kept her head turned carefully away from Stash, her eyes wet, staring out her window at the snow-brushed night unseeingly.

Rehashing in her mind that last awful night in their house. The night she now looked back on with a conflicted mixture of dread and thankfulness as it had also produced their daughter who was still and quiet in the backseat now, having nodded off to sleep with the sudden quickness of infants leaving Valentina free to remember...

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