First Bride to Fall by Ginny Baird

Author:Ginny Baird
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2022-03-28T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

“Sweetie pie! I’m home!”

Well, that was different, but Nell secretly liked that he’d picked a pet name for her. He was obviously happy to see her, and she was desperately glad to see him. He’d been gone for hours.

Nell hobbled toward the front door and hugged him around the neck.

He hugged her back, lifting a large paper cup in one hand. “Easy there. You’ll spill your coffee.”

“Coffee?”

His dark eyes twinkled as he shut the door behind him. “I brought you your favorite.”

Nell accepted the paper cup, and a familiar smell flooded her senses. Blueberries, toasty nuts, and caramel with heavy cream. Her mouth watered. She took a sip, and it had gone lukewarm with the whipped cream dissolving in the liquid. Still, it was delicious. “You went to Bearberry Brews?”

“I did,” he said proudly.

“Thank you.” She took another sip, grateful to be drinking coffee again and not tea. If he’d had a microwave, she would have heated it up, but since he didn’t, she was happy enough to drink it room temp. “The roads, then? They’re cleared?” She tried to hide her disappointment, but judging by how his expression turned sympathetic, he detected it.

“Chin up.” He shot her a smile. “That doesn’t mean we have to go anywhere—yet.”

“What?” She noticed he had a paper bag in his hand. Ooh, had he brought her some treats, too—

Hang on. If he’d been to the café, then he’d probably seen her sisters.

Her heart pounded. What if they’d said something to him about the bet?

“Why don’t we go sit down at the table?” he said.

“Grant,” she said as they headed to the kitchen. “Who did you see at Bearberry Brews?”

He shrugged. “Pretty much everybody.”

Her pulse skittered. “Oh.”

He set his jaw, thinking. “Charlotte, Misty, your parents. Yeah.” He met her eyes. “The whole happy family. Plus Lucas and Mei-Lin.”

She exhaled internally. Okay. That was good. If everybody was around, then her sisters wouldn’t have blabbed about anything.

“They were all sorry to hear about your accident and hope you feel better soon.”

“You told them about my ankle?”

“Yeah.” He frowned. “I kind of did. Why didn’t you?” He gazed at her in a penetrating way that set her nerves on edge.

She flipped back her hair. “I didn’t want to worry them.”

“That is so you. Considerate to a fault.” He glanced at the stove top, where a fresh loaf of apple bread was cooling. “Well, what have we here?” he asked, sounding pleased. He walked over to the loaf and inhaled deeply, then glanced at her. “It smells amazing. What is it?”

“Apple bread. My recipe’s technically for applesauce cake, but since you didn’t seem to have a Bundt pan around, I cut the recipe in half and used the loaf pan under the stove.” She made her way over to the table, taking care with her right foot. “I hope you don’t mind that I used some of your ingredients. I found a couple of apples in the fridge that looked like they needed to be eaten.”

He laughed.

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