What the Flock by Savage Vivienne & Taylor Domino

Author:Savage, Vivienne & Taylor, Domino
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lady Raven Press
Published: 2019-08-15T16:00:00+00:00

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By the time Friday rolled around, Ellie was a nervous wreck. Everything about Griffin was too good to be true and now she was meeting his family. Not just any family member either, but his twin sister.

The pair were due to arrive at five, giving her less than half an hour to wrap up her work in the kitchen while Emma worked quietly in her room on the most recent art project Madeleine had given her. The kid had turned out to be a crocheting prodigy.

“It smells amazing in here,” Maddie called from the doorway. “You are definitely aiming to impress if you dug out that recipe.”

“Totally worth it. I need her to love me.”

Ellie had made a traditional, Valencia-style paella, a delicious and savory rice dish topped with chorizo, chicken, and many different seafoods. She’d had to call in a favor from a chef friend in San Antonio to get to acquire the vaquetes, because that was how she’d been taught to make it while studying abroad for a semester in Spain, and the snails added the necessary touch of authenticity.

“Can I do anything to help?”

“Set the table for me?”

“Sure.”

The aroma of fresh bread filled the air. Ellie peered through the oven window at the baking baguettes. If she timed it just right, they’d be coming out from the oven when Griff arrived with his sister. Of course, the bell then rang ten minutes earlier than expected because Griffin believed in punctuality and had to arrive ahead of schedule. She scowled and lowered the salad tongs.

“I got it!” Maddie called to her. “You carry on. I’ll run interference while you finish that.”

A frisson of nerves tightened Ellie’s gut, though she tried to tell herself that Griffin’s sister would have no reason at all to dislike her. And that even if she did, that wasn’t the end of the world.

“Seriously? You’re his sister?” came Maddie’s startled voice as Ellie tossed the salad.

Grinning, Ellie leaned out of the kitchen for a peek. Billionaire entrepreneur Charlotte Montgomery stood beside her brother with a genuine smile on her face. Looking at them side by side, no one could ever confuse the two for anything but siblings, mirror images of the same person in male and female with bright gold eyes and the same slightly hooked nose.

If Griffin hadn’t warned her in advance, she may have charged into the room and bludgeoned him. Instead, she calmly finished tossing the salad, took the bowl to the dining table, then strode into the living room to take over for Maddie.

The first, last, and only time Ellie had met Ms. Montgomery, the woman had been glazing a fairy on a porcelain toadstool for Maddie’s grand opening event, smiling for cameras and making nice with the handful of journalists so hungry for news they resorted to reporting Charlotte’s charity to small Texas businesses. She’d been wearing a power suit, her hair in a fancy updo.

Today she looked like any other woman, wearing a blue button-down shirt over jeans, her ivory hair drawn into a lazy ponytail.

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