Claiming Charlie by Kathryn Kaleigh

Author:Kathryn Kaleigh
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathryn Kaleigh

CHAPTER 47

Martin stirred the soup simmering in the pot on the stove.

It smelled a bit like pot roast, but it had a distinctive wildness to the scent.

Martin had no appetite for it.

But they had to eat.

And a man could eat only so many biscuits.

Martin had learned to cook, not from either his father or his mother.

In fact, he couldn’t recall ever seeing either one of his parents cook anything.

His mother had no interest in cooking and fortunately they had a cook.

The thought of his father cooking was an image he couldn’t even imagine.

Martin had learned to cook along with his best friend, Alexander Avery, when they were but children running wild.

They’d spent several weeks each summer in the woods learning to live on the land.

But neither one of them had really taken to it.

Alexander had become a physician and now Martin was a writer. Neither one of them were exactly the kind of men who liked to live off the land.

But desperate times called for desperate measures.

Besides, there was something about Charlie that made him want to take care of her.

And right now taking care of her meant providing food.

Even food that wasn’t so very appetizing.

At the moment, she was curled up beneath a blanket in front of the fireplace. Reading.

Reading one of his novels.

He wondered for the hundredth time how long it was going to take for her to figure out that the heroine was based on her.

And he wondered what she would think about that.

The way Martin saw it, it could go one of two ways.

She could be flattered by it.

Or she could be… concerned.

He only hoped that she would see it as the compliment as it was intended.

He filled two bowls of soup and took them over to where Charlie sat.

Thomas was sleeping again, so he could eat later.

Martin certainly wasn’t going to wake the cantankerous old fellow.

“Hungry?” he asked, setting one of the bowls in front of Charlie.

“Maybe,” she said, stirring the soup.

Martin did the same. “Yeah, I’m not so fond of rabbit soup myself.”

He was surprised when she took a sip.

“Hmm,” she said. “It’s actually good.”

“Really?” Martin asked, sniffing his spoonful of soup.

He hadn’t completely convinced himself that it was fit to eat.

But if Charlie was willing to eat it, he couldn’t very well not follow her lead.

He took a tentatively sip.

And was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t so bad.

She put a hand over her mouth and giggled.

“What?” he asked, charmed by her unexpected delight.

“You should see your face,” she said.

He laughed with her.

He would eat rabbit soup all day long if that’s what it took to bring her such delight.

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