The Nurse and the Single Dad by Dianne Drake

Author:Dianne Drake
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarlequinUKLtd
Published: 2017-08-31T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SEVEN

“NO, I DON’T WANT hot peppers in my omelet,” Zoey stated emphatically, turning up her nose at the suggestion. “Don’t care for them.”

“Ever?” Daniel asked, smiling as he placed the carton of eggs back in the fridge.

“Ever! Don’t like to eat them, don’t like to look at them...” She shuddered. “Especially don’t like the after-burn that comes with them.”

“But I love them. The hotter, the better.”

“Then, by all means, put them in your omelet. Just make sure none of them encroach on mine.” She wasn’t a fanatic about what she liked to eat. Pretty much, she’d eat anything. But she didn’t like extra-spicy food, and Daniel’s peppers were extra-spicy.

“What about putting a small amount of hot pepper in a recipe? Something like a stew, or maybe nacho cheese?”

“You’re testing my limits here, Daniel. I don’t like hot!” She handed him a big, juicy tomato and the knife to cut it with.

“OK, I get the hot thing. Some people just can’t take the heat.”

“I sweat, and my eyes water. And that’s not even to mention how my throat feels.”

“But you’re sure you like eggs? Because we can fix something else if you don’t.”

“Eggs aren’t spicy, and spicy is the only thing I don’t eat.”

“But I could put hot sauce in the eggs,” he teased.

“And I could go home and fix a tuna-salad sandwich.”

“Or stay here with me and trust that I won’t go near the peppers and hot sauce tonight, even though they’re usually a prominent ingredient in the omelets I fix for myself.”

“Eggs, cheese, non-spicy veggies...that’s what I want. So, if you can do that without being tempted to betray me, we’ll get along fine.”

“Is an onion too spicy?”

“Onions are OK.”

“And radishes?”

“Radishes in an omelet?” She shook her head. “Sounds peculiar to me.”

“Oh, I wasn’t going to put a radish in the omelet. I just wanted to see if you like them.”

“They make me burp.” She recognized the Vidalia onion in the fridge and was glad she found a sweet variety. “So I don’t eat them.”

“So now, that’s hot peppers, hot sauce and radishes. Anything else I should know about you?”

“Is this a food quiz?” she asked as she grabbed a knife from the drawer to dice the onion. “Or are you at a loss for better conversation?”

“Just trying to get to know you.”

“Through my eating preferences?”

“Want to talk about your reading preferences instead? Personally, I like biographies. Especially ones that have to do with the Civil War. Oh, and medieval anything.”

“I like mysteries, especially the ones that have a little romance included. And I like medical dramas, too.”

“I read medical journals, and they’re pretty dramatic.”

Zoey laughed. “Not the same.” This was fun, cooking with him, engaging in light, almost nonsensical conversation. It was something that would be so easy to get used to.

“Well, I haven’t really read a novel in a couple of years, so I guess that ends our book discussion. Want to move on to music?”

“In a word, classical.”

“As in Bach, Beethoven and the

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