Pleasure and Spice by Fiona Zedde

Author:Fiona Zedde [Zedde, Fiona]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Hills Publishing

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Everyone was sitting at the dinner table when she walked in. The pitcher of her mother’s homemade pineapple juice was already half empty.

“Sorry,” she went to the kitchen sink to wash her hands. “I started talking with Grant and lost track of time.”

“That’s a good sign,” her mother said, leaning over to scoop brown rice into a plate for her.

“Mom, stop. It’s not like he and I were making mad love on his living room floor.”

“But you thought about it.” Her mother watched her carefully.

But Renée turned away from her mother’s perceptive stare and sat down.

“Good,” her father said as if she’d answered the question. “We like him. You could do much worse.”

“You have done much worse,” Mayson chimed in.

Renée cut her eyes at Mayson. Her friend lifted a fork and deliberately speared a piece of golden brown tofu, a bite of zucchini and yellow pepper. She lifted the food to her mouth, smiling.

“Tell us then, what did you and Grant talk about for a whole hour? I thought you didn’t find him very interesting.”

“Renée probably spent the entire time staring at his body and finding excuses to linger and stare some more.” Her mother laughed. “If every policeman was that fit, I bet there would be fewer complaints about being pulled over.”

“Dad! Do something about this!” Renée stared at her mother. Although she was used to her mother’s plain speaking about most things—sex included—it seemed somehow wrong to talk about Grant that way. He was like the son they never had for heaven’s sake!

Her father only shrugged.

“It’s only normal to appreciate Grant’s obvious physical gifts, if that’s what you were doing.” Her father wagged his fork at her. “He’s been here for a while and you’ve never shown any interest in him before. That’s interesting. Was he lounging around his house naked or something?”

“You were the one who sent me over there, Dad. I was just being neighborly.”

Her parents looked at each other.

“There you have it, darling,” her father said to his wife. “She was only being neighborly.”

Despite her father’s serious look, she couldn’t let go of the feeling that he was laughing at her. Mayson watched her with a crooked smile. Renée glanced down at her plate and resolved to say nothing else about Grant Chambers for the rest of the time she was in Dana Point.

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