Some Like it Scandalous by Maya Rodale

Author:Maya Rodale
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2019-06-18T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

While Mrs. Swan rushes around Manhattan single-handedly planning the wedding of the year, one wonders how the romance between the bride and groom has been progressing.

—The New York Post

Later that afternoon

A few hours later, with the shop shuttered for the day, Theo and Daisy climbed into his waiting carriage, idling outside and slowing traffic that was already slowed down due to the steady drizzle of rain. They climbed in and Theo just said, “Uptown,” to the driver because his mind was reeling from the events of the day.

“Except for that one irate woman—” he started.

“Let’s never speak of it again,” Daisy said as she leaned back against the velvet cushions and closed her eyes. At Harriet’s urging they had separately made their way to the back of the shop to lie low, which they did while Harriet expertly escorted the woman in black out of the shop and consoled the others. Thanks to her brilliant plan, new waves of women kept entering every fifteen minutes, like clockwork.

“Let’s celebrate our success instead,” Theo said, and Daisy’s eyes brightened.

A celebration was certainly in order. Because in spite of that one irate woman, most women had been pleasantly curious and eager to try it. The sales had been exceptional. The young ladies hired to work in the laboratory—some of Daisy’s fellow chemistry students and some other bright women who struggled to find other respectable work—would definitely need to arrive early tomorrow and begin preparing another batch of the Midnight Miracle Cream.

If the newspaper reports and word of mouth were favorable, it seemed they had a good chance of success.

The carriage lurched forward and then just as it was gathering pace it slowed again. And stopped. And started.

So it was to be one of those journeys, plagued by a seething mass of humanity and vehicles all slowed to a sedate pace and confounded by wet weather. Usually, Theo would be annoyed but today he didn’t mind. They were alone in the carriage—the driver stationed outside, up front—and they would have to make the best of it.

“How do you propose we celebrate, Theo?”

Theo had some ideas.

From the heated look in Daisy’s eyes, he knew that she was of the same mind.

There was an energy between them that was almost palpable. It was nothing less than giddiness over their success—not that, as a man, he would ever describe himself as feeling giddy aloud. There was the exhilaration one felt after taking a risk and winning and he felt it now.

And then there was this potent feeling between them. Something magnetic. Electric.

Something had to be done about it.

Theo’s lips first touched hers at Nineteenth Street.

Or hers touched his? It seemed so natural that they should mutually crash into each other’s arms, sink into a frantic kiss like time was running out even though the journey uptown would take an eternity at this pace.

This kiss was hard and fast, tooth clinking against tooth. Heads turning the same way at the same time, awkward. Noses colliding. Their choreography was a mess but the passion and pleasure was real.

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