Overcome by Melanie Rachel

Author:Melanie Rachel [Rachel, Melanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-12-12T05:00:00+00:00

They returned to the apartment after dinner. As they stepped into the family room, Will nabbed a pillow out of midair as it flew at them. Richard stood near the sofa looking annoyed.

“You’ve been back a week, and this is the first I see you?” Richard asked her. “Got time for popcorn, but not for me?” He gave her a wicked grin. “How’d you like the ticker-tape parade?”

Elizabeth beamed. “That was the best,” she said, walking over to him and giving him a shove. “Got me just as I was leaning over the vent. Bam.”

Will grunted and brushed past her to go towards the entry, his hand touching her back affectionately before he was gone. She heard the clunk as he dropped the fob in the bowl.

Richard arched back and shook his fists in the air. “Yes!” He looked at her askance. “Did it go up your nose?”

She laughed outright at that. “No, but it did go in my mouth.” He hooted in triumph, and she gave him another light shove. “At least my joke was edible.”

“Bennet,” he chided, “it took thirty kids tramping through here to eat all that popcorn. I left Will to do the honors of hosting them all.”

She arched an eyebrow at him. “He’s a non-combatant, major,” she chastised. “That was out of line.” She tilted her head at him. “You also got Jane involved, and that was the dirtiest trick of all. My entirely-too-ethical sister is probably eating herself up with guilt.”

“Oh, I just sweet-talked her out of the key,” he scoffed, but then frowned. “Do you think so?”

Elizabeth shrugged, “Probably. She’s not going to lose sleep over it or anything, but you set up a terrible conflict for her. She loves me.” Her eyes lit up. “And she loves you, though I can’t figure out why.”

His expression fell. “Don’t go anywhere,” he said, holding up a finger. “I just need to make a call.”

“He’s whipped,” Elizabeth muttered playfully as she moved into the kitchen. She tossed open the doors and noticed that the bottom shelf still had two bottles of the Fou’Foune she’d bought him at Thanksgiving.

She heard Will come up behind her. “He wouldn’t let anyone touch it until he saw you again,” he whispered in her ear. “It’s been taking up space in my fridge for weeks. Now that you’re back he might let me clear them out.”

Elizabeth gazed at the brown bottles. “We are overdue for a drink.”

Will kissed her ear. “More than six months overdue, I think.” He took her hand. “I have something to ask Richard and then I have work I can do. Just come get me in the office when you’re done.”

He patted her bottom before leaving the kitchen, laughing at her scowl.

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