Birthday Blunder: A Paranormal Women's Fiction Novella by Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff

Author:Lia Davis & L.A. Boruff [Davis, Lia]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-09-19T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Four

I would get through this cake. I would do it.

Centering my nerves, I practiced the breathing I’d learned at that one yoga class I’d convinced Ava to take with me that one time.

Neither of us had ever suggested going again after I had to watch the class pretend they couldn’t smell the little bit of gas that slipped out during my downward dog. I’d been so thankful it was silent, I hadn’t stopped to think about the fact that it could be stinky.

Until it hit my olfactory senses.

But no matter now. I was calm. The ingredients were here. Oil. Carrots and a little flat, shredder thingy. I never could remember the name of that thing, but I always shredded my carrots myself. Pre-shredded grocery store carrots were hard and dry by the time they went in the cake.

Something else I knew. I liked knowing things.

I preheated the oven and put in some pecans to toast while I worked on the cake mix. Flour, two and a half cups. Measuring carefully, I put the first two cups in the bowl, but as I measured out the half cup, another movement out of the corner of my eye caused me to jerk my head. And it was a chain reaction after that. My arm flinched, which made my wrist flex, and my hand shook, flinging flour up and all over my shirt.

Seriously? Son of a biscuit.

I tried to brush the flour off, but it was sticking hard to my sweater. Whatever. Brown sugar, granulated sugar, baking pow—Holy crap!

“Hello, Olivia.” Luci’s voice behind me made my arm jerk big time, and baking powder went on top of the flour all over my chest.

Turning in a slow circle on my heel, I glared at Luci, Ava’s devilish new neighbor, and his girlfriend, Carrie, who was my son’s Kindergarten teacher.

“What are you doing here?” I asked in a low voice. It wasn’t that I wanted to be rude, but he was a potentially dangerous man, and I didn’t feel too comfortable being the only responsible adult around him. He usually only came around to stir up trouble.

There was Carrie, but she was dating him, so she didn’t count.

“You know.” Luci squinted at my shirt. “Feeding them won’t make them grow.”

“What?” I narrowed my gaze. “What are you talking about?”

He gestured vaguely to my chest, causing me to look down and belatedly realize he meant feeding my boobs. Great. Okay. “Well, what are you doing here?”

Whirling again, I opened the eggs to add a few to the batter and frustration rose in me so quickly I nearly threw them across the room. “You’ve got to be kidding me. Winston!” I threw my head back and screamed at the house even though he couldn’t or wouldn’t reply.

“No need to shout,” Luci said. “I believe I can help.”

“Oh, thank you, but no, I—”

He cut me off by waving his hand. Eggs lifted out of the carton and plopped right on top of the flour and sugar.

Along with about half of the broken shells from the carton.

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