Darkness Becomes Her by Rush Jaime

Author:Rush, Jaime [Rush, Jaime]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Paranormal, Fiction
ISBN: 9780062096579
Publisher: Avon
Published: 2012-05-29T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 13

The kitchen hadn’t been such a mess, and hadn’t smelled so good, since Lachlan’s father’s death nine months ago. Lachlan usually threw a chicken breast into the microwave, cooked some rice, heated some canned green beans, and that was about it. All he needed was sustenance. The way his mouth watered at the aroma of tomatoes, garlic, and chicken cooking in the pan . . . well, she’d awakened his hunger for good food, too.

She tasted some of the sauce, rolling her eyes in pleasure. “Mm, perfect.”

She’d set him to chopping lettuce and carrots for a salad, having already whipped up a dressing from scratch. She flitted from thing to thing, humming, a smile on her face.

“You do love to cook, don’t you?” he asked.

“My dad and I used to cook together. It was special. I felt all grown up, like I was helping. My mom was sick a lot, and Dad ended up doing a lot of the household chores.” The smile on her face showed him how much those times meant to her.

“What was wrong with your mum?”

“The doctors couldn’t find anything, but she’d been sickly her whole life. Failure to thrive, she said they called it. I took care of her, played mommy. She started getting better in those last couple of months.”

She moved with grace, whisking a bowl of homemade salad dressing filled with herbs and a touch of balsamic vinegar; she liked to tell him every ingredient, like one of those cooking show hosts. She had a lovely glow on her face, putting a flush on her apple cheeks and a sparkle in her hazel eyes. He had to stop watching her or else he’d chop his fingers off.

“Here, try this,” she said, suddenly beside him with a spoon of the tomato sauce.

He obliged and leaned down, so used to his hair falling forward he almost made to push it back.

He had the same reaction she had, rolling his eyes and letting out a soft Mmmm. “Incredible.” Except he was looking at her. He shifted his gaze to the now empty spoon. “You said it was chicken cacciatore?”

“Yep. I got it from this old Italian cookbook I picked up at a thrift store. You know it’s good when there are food stains and notations on the pages.”

A large pan nestled with chicken thighs, onions, and mushrooms, bubbled gently. His mouth actually watered. Of course, he was looking at her again, so he couldn’t be sure which had done it.

He heard a groan come out of him, and yet he hadn’t made the sound. Olaf’s energy suffused him. Bloody hell, he could come uninvited.

“I can smell it through ye,” Olaf said, making a long, snuffly sound. “Food. Like nothin’ I’ve ever laid me eyes on, but heavenly all the same.”

She walked closer, looking at him, but not at him. “Did you find out anything about the Void?”

“I seen it. Scary thing, scarier than the Light.”

Jessie’s face was filled with both fear and hope. “The Light? You mean the light people see when they die?”

“That’s the one.

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