PROMISES REVEAL by MCCARTY SARAH

Author:MCCARTY, SARAH [MCCARTY, SARAH]
Format: epub
Tags: EROTIC HISTORICAL WESTERN ROMANCE
ISBN: 9781436289986
Publisher: PENGUIN group
Published: 2011-01-31T05:00:00+00:00

SHE STORMED INTO the house about five minutes after he did.

“You did that on purpose.”

He leaned back in the chair. “I told you, you don’t tell me no.”

She stopped dead. “That was punishment?”

“No. If I punish you, you’ll know it. That was more of a reminder.”

The glint in her eye as she shoved back the hair that had come loose from her braid did not bode well for his longevity. “A reminder of what a great lover you are?”

“Shoot, why didn’t you ask me that earlier? That would have been a better lesson.”

She eyed the legs of the chair as though she’d like to kick them out from under him. “Maybe because I didn’t need a lesson at all.”

“Yeah. You did.”

“In what?”

He brought the chair down on four legs and started unloading the basket. “In what’s real.”

She grabbed for the handle. He was faster. “Sit down.”

“I don’t want to.”

It was easy to guess what had her feathers in a ruffle. “That was more of a request than an order.”

“How was I supposed to tell?”

She had him there. It might be time to soften his edge a bit with his wife. “I thought I’d serve you tonight, seeing as you’ve been on your feet all day.”

She blinked, the statement clearly giving her nowhere to go with her anger. He sighed, motioning again to the chair. “Please.”

Eyeing him suspiciously, she did.

As he opened the lid, the smell of Millie’s chicken paprika got stronger. Looks like Evie would have her revenge anyway. He hated chicken paprika. “Did you make this?”

She shook her head. “Millie made it for you. She told me she made it especially for you.”

Shit. No guessing where Evie heard about Nidia. Had to be at Millicent’s. Millie wouldn’t be pleased about him leaving Evie on her wedding night. She thought of Evie as her daughter and she’d been very specific in her expectations that he make her happy.

The pot was still hot. He quickly dropped it on a towel on the wood cutting board on the end of the table. “Did she pack us anything for dessert? Maybe strawberry shortcake?”

Maybe Millicent wasn’t that mad and she’d left him dessert. “Oatmeal cookies I think.”

He sighed and pulled out the cloth-wrapped bundle. Setting it on the table, he didn’t bother to open it.

“With raisins.”

If she was hoping to raise his enthusiasm, she was barking up the wrong tree. Ladling the stew into a bowl, he asked, “I’m guessing there was gossip at the restaurant today?”

She took the bowl he handed her and shook out her napkin. The move was too careful and too precise to be as casual as she wanted him to believe. She stabbed her fork into the bowl so hard, it clanked on the bottom. “Nidia stopped by.”

Of course she did. Another sign that his luck, thin to begin with, was wearing out. “And?”

There had to be an and.

Evie poked her fork around in her bowl a couple more times before looking up. “She seems to be under the impression that all she has to do is call and you’ll come running.

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