The Red Hat Society's Domestic Goddess by Regina Hale Sutherland

Author:Regina Hale Sutherland [SUTHERLAND, REGINA HALE]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780446570008
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Published: 2009-11-29T05:00:00+00:00

If she kept on feeding everyone, Millie would run out of storage containers. Soon. But since Charles had cleaned up after her boys, he deserved a treat. She grasped the plastic bowl tightly as she walked purposefully up the drive to his condo, past the car the unknown woman had used last week to drive away from Charles’s place.

She was back.

But Millie wasn’t hiding in the bushes this time. Shewas the woman Charles had almost kissed just a little earlier that night. Even though it had been a while since she’d been kissed, she remembered how a man looked when he was about to do it, the flare of interest and passion in his eyes.

That wasn’t why she’d walked the short distance between her condo and his; she didn’t want to realize the promise of that kiss. Or that was what she kept telling herself. Liar.

But she did want to thank him… for cleaning up and putting up with her sons’ nonsense. What had they talked about with him? How had they gotten so friendly that he’d shortened their names? Had they talked about her?

Her concern wasn’t due to embarrassment. Not anymore. She’d moved far beyond that. But if someone were to talk to Charles about her, she preferred it was someone who actually knew her, like Theresa or Kim. Or any of the other Red Hot Hatters of Hilltop. Her sons knew her only as a mother; her friends knew her as Millie, the woman. The complete person.

She climbed the wide brick steps up his porch to the arched front door. As she reached for the doorbell her hand trembled. Should she do this? Should she interrupt his visit with the blonde? If she wanted to learn more about Charles, for instance who the woman was, she had to. So she quickly pressed the button.

Barely a second passed before the door opened, not nearly enough time for Millie to run away and dodge behind the bushes. Just enough time for her to entertain the notion.

“I thought I saw you walking up,” Charles said, his handsome face creased with that now-familiar grin.

“I was just bringing you this,” she said, holding out the storage container.

“More pie?” he asked, his blue eyes alight with hopefulness as he took the plastic bowl from her hands, his fingers brushing hers.

That little electric current flowed from the tips of her fingers up her arm… almost to her heart, if she wasn’t careful. She shook her head. “Sorry, just oatmeal raisin cookies.”

“I’m sure they’re just as good, since you made them,” he complimented her.

“Since you and my sons are so enamored of that pie, I’m going to have to teach you how to make it.”

If she continued teaching. After tonight, she wasn’t so sure. Not only had the boys flooded the utility room, they’d done the same to the kitchen and each other with the sprayer from the sink. Millie had cut the class short, giving laundry as homework and a stern lecture to her sons.

Okay, it hadn’t been that stern.

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