The Single Dad Finds a Wife by Felicia Mason

Author:Felicia Mason
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2015-11-30T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“I’m glad you invited me to join you,” David said. “It will be nice to be in the company of adults eating real food.”

Spring smiled. “Had your fill of kids’ meals and bananas?”

“Just the places that serve them,” he answered. “You were right about his appetite and energy returning. When he went flying into your arms last night, it was like nothing had ever happened.”

“Children are resilient that way,” she said.

He and Spring were en route to the farmhouse for the Magnolia Supper Club’s dinner party. A twinge of regret sparked through Spring. She’d invited him to the gathering under false pretenses.

She’d gone to their hotel yesterday to lure him to this dinner. But something had happened to her while in those rooms with David, Jeremy and Charlotte Camden. The invitation she’d extended to him in that moment had been sincere. She really wanted to have dinner with him. But not this way.

Cecelia was right; this wasn’t the way to go about getting him to see their point of view on the matter. If anything, it was likely to turn him off, backfiring in her face.

She glanced over at him. “David, I have a confession to make.”

He took his eyes off the road for a moment. Long enough to ensure that Spring had his undivided attention. “No confessions or apologies tonight,” he said. “Let’s just enjoy the evening.”

“But...”

He reached for her hand, primly folded in her lap. “No buts,” he said. “Tell me more about this supper club of yours. How did it get started, and how did you all come about the name?”

This was safe territory, Spring knew. And in telling him about the club, she could add that members were frequently involved in town events, all the members being longtime residents of Cedar Springs.

“It started as something of an accident,” she said, twisting in her seat to face him. “There were a couple of us at a charity event. The dinner was the usual rubber-chicken affair, but the caterer got a little overly creative with the asparagus and the dessert was something that was better off left as individual ingredients in the pantry.

“Gerald Murphy, you’ll meet him tonight,” she went on, “said something to the effect of ‘I wish there was a place I could go to guarantee a decent meal.’ Someone else said, ‘Well, in that case, stay home and cook it yourself.’ And somehow that led to three of us getting together at one of our houses and the subsequent times each of us brought a friend. And then since we were a group, someone suggested a formal arrangement and a name. The rest is cuisine history.”

“How about the name?”

“That came from Cecelia. You’ll meet her tonight, as well. We were at her place, and she had a lovely centerpiece of magnolia leaves and blossoms. So we became the Magnolia Supper Club. Tonight is a makeup dinner, so to speak,” she said.

“Because of the break-in?” he asked. “You mentioned a burglary. What happened?”

She told him about the incident at Step Back in Time Antiques.

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