The Mistletoe Kiss by Janet Lee Barton

Author:Janet Lee Barton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Millicent wanted to go look at possible places for her shop on Sunday afternoon but it was very breezy, and instead, she stayed in and developed the photographs she and Julia had taken. And Julia was right. Millicent loved the photo she’d taken of her and Matt. She gazed at it again. They both appeared happy. What was the photograph they’d been studying so intently when she took it?

Then she remembered. Matt had just pulled it out of the pile. It was one taken when they went skating at Central Park. They’d looked happy that day. But then he’d pulled out another one that had been snapped at the park and it appeared they’d been sparring as they still did, though mostly during those first few months after they’d moved in. Matt wore a teasing expression and grin on his face and from the height of her eyebrow, he’d said something she didn’t like and she’d responded in kind with whatever it was he’d said.

That man. What was it about Matt that could both irritate her one moment and turn her heart to mush the next? And make her pulse gallop and her heart hammer all at the same time?

Millicent sighed and glanced at the photo once more before shaking her head and taking the others down from where she’d hung them to dry. She couldn’t let herself think about any of that now. It would only serve to feed her longing for things to be different.

But she hadn’t changed. She was still independent, wanted the vote and to set up her own shop. All things men did not want in a wife. And she was pretty sure that Matt was no different.

She gathered her photos together and took them down to her room, where later she’d write comments on the party and what everyone was doing.

Right now, it was teatime and she hurried down to join Mrs. Heaton and the others, who were sure to be in the parlor enjoying a cup.

They heard the front door open and Matt and Joe peeked into the parlor. “Ah, teatime. Any chance there’s enough left for us?”

“There’s always enough. But I’ll have Gretchen bring in a fresh pot, unless you men would rather have coffee?”

“Well, now you mention it, I wouldn’t mind having a cup of coffee,” Matt said.

“Neither would I,” Joe added. Mrs. Heaton headed for the kitchen and the men joined them in the parlor.

“Is it still breezy out?” Millicent asked.

“Yes. Not too bad at the moment, but the papers have said we might be in for an Atlantic storm sometime in the week,” Matt said. “I hope not. It’s not fun when it’s windy on the floor we’re working on. There’s nothing to block it and if it gets too bad we’ll probably be ordered to leave work.”

Millicent’s heart seemed to stop for a moment at Matt’s words of being ordered to leave. She’d never thought how windy it could get on the top of a skyscraper.

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