Wrapped Up In You by Melody Claire

Author:Melody Claire [Claire, Melody]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: MC Books
Published: 2023-11-27T16:00:00+00:00

15

JONATHAN

I frowned as I watched Hayden walk away. Something was clearly bothering him, and though he’d denied it, I had a feeling it had something to do with what was happening between us. Though maybe that was me projecting my own feelings on the situation.

So much had happened in the last forty-eight hours, and I didn’t understand any of it. How was it possible to fall for someone so quickly? Someone you’d already known for years but, as it turned out, hadn’t really known at all. Someone you were starting to realize might hold the key to unlocking the best parts of you. How had any of this happened in just a couple of days? And what was I going to do about it?

Hayden rummaged around in the kitchen, pulling out the chicken, herbs, onion, butter, and lemon. Most of the things I’d bought at the grocery store had been your typical bachelor basics, but I’d bought the ingredients for roast chicken thinking that even though I was spending Christmas alone, I might want to at least have this one nice meal. I’d stood in the middle of the market, just a few miles away from the cabin, searching for recipes online. The one I’d chosen had seemed straightforward, but Hayden wasn’t even using a recipe.

I pulled the stool he’d been using while he played back over to the counter and sat down, watching him work. He’d already preheated the oven and was currently deftly dicing an onion. He then went to work on the herbs, stripping leaves off stems and giving them a rough chop. He rummaged through some drawers, then produced a small grater. He picked up the lemon and grated the peel with expert precision, turning it a little with each swipe. He added some minced garlic, salt, and pepper and then mixed it all together with a couple of spoonfuls of butter from a tub I’d bought so I could make toast for breakfast.

I watched in amazement as he began to shove the butter mixture under the skin with his bare hands. It was messy, but the lemon and herbs smelled amazing. Once he was finished, he placed the chicken in the oven and then got to work on the vegetables.

I was impressed by the competency of his work, sure that preparing the chicken would have taken me twice as long, and though I hadn’t tasted the final product yet, mine likely wouldn’t have tasted nearly as good. He thought he was a failure, but only because he was measuring himself against the wrong stick. We all had been. He still hadn’t told me what his college degree was in, but with the little bit I knew about his father, it was probably something related to business.

And I couldn’t fault his father for that. Wasn’t that how society measured success? With your business acumen? I was a corporate accountant, for fuck’s sake, just like my own father. I actually happened to like it, and I was good at it.

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