Please Be My Valentine by Jennifer Wenn

Author:Jennifer Wenn [Wenn, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Valentine's Day, snowstorm
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2017-11-17T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

She spent the rest of the evening in the kitchen, cleaning everything repeatedly until every surface was spotless.

A sour-faced Kelly emerged before bedtime, properly subdued into apologizing. With no kids of her own, Leonore guessed that “Dad says I must apologize, so…(deep sigh)…sorry” was enough, because afterward Ben beamed with fatherly pride, and Kelly looked pouty but relieved.

“Thank God that’s over.” Ben laughed as Kelly disappeared in a much quieter way than the last time, grabbing Leonore by the waist and gently nuzzling the side of her neck with his lips.

She didn’t feel a thing. Not even a spark. Or…well…there was a little spark, or maybe a rather big, shivering spark, but it had to be just a memory of what had happened earlier. Before she had learnt, as always, what a loser she was.

Noticing her lack of response, Ben let go of her, slowly.

“Leonore? Is there something wrong?”

She didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.

“How can you ask me if anything is wrong?” she almost sobbed, tears in her eyes. “You were there too. In the cellar. Listening to Kelly repeating your own words. And you ask me if there is something wrong?”

He took a step back, looking at her, puzzled. “Are you making fun of me, Leonore? You can’t possibly believe I would ever say anything like that about you. And in front of Kelly, too?”

“Are you saying your daughter is a liar?”

“She is a teenager!” His strained voice reeked with disbelief. “They don’t live in the same dimension as we do. Heck, they don’t even speak the same language! You think you say, ‘Go clean your room,’ or ‘Go do your homework,’ but all they hear is, ‘Go to your room and spend your time in bed watching videos of some really foul-speaking youngsters, or playing games on your cell phone.’ ”

It did make sense, what he’d said. Really, it did. She wasn’t so oblivious to the surrounding world as to not have encountered the strange human breed known as teenagers.

But then again…what Kelly had said…

Leonore had heard Paul tirelessly paint the same picture of her too many times, in too many ways. If Kelly had lied, then she’d have to be clairvoyant, at the least, because she had nailed Paul’s version of Leonore bang on.

To think that Ben thought the same of her…

Ben, who in one day had turned her whole world upside down and made her, from out of nowhere, suddenly have hope for the future.

Ben, who looked at her as if she were a newly baked apple pie, ready for him to devour, and had her willingly, mentally, bathed in vanilla sauce just to make the experience even sweeter.

Ben, who had always been there, safe and down to earth, someone both she and Granny had trusted completely, which was the one and only reason she had gone down into the cellar with him.

It hurt.

“I can’t believe this.” Ben sighed, frustrated, dragging his fingers through his hair. “I-I know we sort of just met,

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