Seduction By Chocolate by Nina Bangs Lisa Cach Thea Devine & Penelope Neri

Author:Nina Bangs, Lisa Cach, Thea Devine & Penelope Neri [Nina Bangs, Lisa Cach, Thea Devine & Penelope Neri]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Tags: Romance, Anthologies, Contemporary
ISBN: 9780843946673
Google: PcxLGQG71QwC
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Goodreads: 110003
Publisher: Love Spell
Published: 1999-12-31T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

Eliza bit the corner off her chocolate bar and chewed without enthusiasm. It tasted like dirt. Making an unhappy face, she wrapped it back in its foil and dropped it into her purse, there to join the remains of four other bars, all equally as unsatisfying.

Nothing tasted the same since coming home.

She slouched into her desk chair, unfinished paperwork spread before her, and stared at nothing.

She'd lost five pounds since coming home two weeks ago. She tried to eat— she bought baguettes and Brie; she bought Belgian beer and frozen bags of French fries— but there was something missing from her meals, and she left them untouched on her plate.

It was Sebastian that was missing, of course. That was easy enough to recognize. What she couldn't accept was that she should be longing for him, when she had been so careful to frame their three days as a foreign affair, a fling. It wasn't supposed to continue beyond the borders of Belgium and of her vacation. She hadn't meant to think of him as anything but a fond memory.

She wasn't supposed to want him here, in the United States, for as far into the future as she could see.

At least she had no regrets; that was something. Not about what she had done with him, not even about the shocking sum on her credit card statement. Every time she opened her closet door, she ran her fingers down the airy fabric of the green dress. Given the chance, she'd relive those three days again, from their first encounter on the train to the morning they had said good-bye.

She'd relive them again and again, only maybe this time, instead of kissing Sebastian on the cheek and wishing him well when they parted, perhaps she would tell him she would write, or call, or she would ask him to visit her in Seattle, or maybe she would even offer to meet him in San Francisco.

But perhaps it was best to have ended it as she had, with neither promise nor plea. He had asked for her number and address, but she had known it was mere politeness on his part. She was as much a holiday fling for him as she had thought he was to her.

"Eliza?" Sister Agnes asked, poking her head into the small office the dieticians shared. "Are you all right? You've been looking down lately. Is everything okay?"

Eliza tried to smile for her. "I haven't been eating well."

Sister Agnes made a tsk sound, her real-life self always much kinder and cheerier than Eliza's mental version. "There's something for you in the break room. It might pique your appetite," Sister Agnes said. Her eyes fairly twinkled.

Probably another case of samples from Ensure. Sister Agnes always got excited when they came out with a new flavor.

Eliza sighed and hauled herself out of her chair. Her feet shuffled on the floor as she blindly made her way to the break room, only vaguely wondering why the Ensure was put there instead of the nutrition room, as usual.

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