Urban: A Hathaway House Heartwarming Romance by Dale Mayer

Author:Dale Mayer [Mayer, Dale]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Military, Romance
ISBN: 9781773367828
Publisher: Valley Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2023-11-02T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 8

Bettina did sign up for the conference. Before she attended it though, she walked into Urban’s room to update him. “Hey. Remember. I’m leaving soon.”

He looked up, a little distracted from his paperwork. “Right, the conference.” He smiled and nodded. “Go and enjoy yourself.”

“And you’ll be just fine while I’m gone.”

“It won’t be the same though,” he shared.

She added, “At least it’s only five days.”

He agreed. “It is only five days. But, at the moment, five days seems like a long time.”

Unfortunately it seemed like forever, Bettina thought, from his point of view. But she was bound and determined to keep up the bright smile and the happy tone of voice for him. “Remember. It won’t be long,” she said, “and you can always text me.”

“Will do,” he replied. “But let’s forget about it for now and head off for dinner. I’m starving.”

“Good enough.” She was a little worried that he was pushing off her five-day absence, but maybe it was just an easier way to deal with it. Maybe it was really no big deal for him. That bothered her more than anything. She would prefer to think, if she were gone for five days, that he would care. And, of course, no way he wouldn’t care, but his reaction just then felt odd.

She groaned as they walked up to the buffet line.

Dennis took one look and asked, “What’s that for?”

“It’ll be my last meal here for the next few days,” she explained, with a slight grimace. “I’m heading off to that conference.”

“Right.” Dennis nodded. “I remember that. So what’ll it be?” he asked. “After this, it’ll only be conference food for you.”

She shuddered. “Most of the time it’s not so bad, but lately? Man, those conference meals have been pretty rough.”

“That’s because they’re not serving my food,” Dennis teased.

“I know, and that’s a little more distressing than I care to admit right now.” Then she saw they were having steak and smiled. “Oh, I could get behind a steak.”

“And I’ve got them out on the barbecue on the deck. How do you want yours?”

“Medium rare,” she replied, with a big smile.

“Good enough.” Dennis looked over at Urban. “What about you?”

“Medium rare for me too. Have you got a grill on?” Urban asked.

“I do, indeed,” Dennis stated, “and Ilse is out there right now.”

“Sounds good,” Urban murmured. They headed outside to the smell of grilling steak.

“Wow,” Bettina murmured, as Urban rolled over to Ilse.

He asked, “Don’t suppose you have any peppers you could throw on there, do you?”

She nodded at him. “Absolutely. Anything else you want?”

“Zucchini, maybe a tomato?”

Ilse chuckled. “Grilled vegetables coming up.” She looked over at Bettina. “Do you want a few?”

“I’ve never had any grilled veggies, so yes.”

“Perfect.” And Ilse headed back inside and returned within seconds with a large bowl of vegetables. While she stood here watching the steaks, she quickly trimmed them up and quartered the peppers and tossed them on, along with the zucchini cut in long slices. Then she brushed them with oil and some seasoning.

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