Her Chef Bear by Alice Summerfield

Author:Alice Summerfield [Summerfield, Alice]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-07-31T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 09 – Scott

Saturday nights were too busy for Scott to simply close the restaurant and go to the community meeting. Instead, he opened his restaurant as he always did and then ducked out, leaving it to his other head chef to run the kitchen for the rest of the night. Scott didn’t anticipate staying for the whole meeting, but no one really wanted to show up for a two or three hour shift at work.

When Scott got to the community center, it was roughly five-thirty and the parking lot was already half full. Finding a spot near the back of the lot, Scott parked his loaner and went inside.

Signs printed on computer paper directed him to what proved to be a theater, complete with comfortable seats and a stage at the front. Already, the seats provided for the audience were three-quarters full, and Scott hastily slipped into one of the empty chairs before taking a good look at the six people already on the stage.

There were four men and two women sitting in folding chairs on the stage, all of them wearing black suits. Scott knew from information shared before the meeting that one of the women on the stage was the mayor.

The other was Frederica.

Scott stared at her, feeling shocked and horrified.

Her knees together, back straight, and hands in her lap, Frederica was sitting primly near one end of the line of chairs. Her black suit was conservatively cut, and all of her glorious hair had been pinned back into a severe bun. As Scott watched, the man sitting next to Frederica leaned over to murmur something in her ear, and Frederica tipped her head towards him, listening to him without taking her eyes off of their growing audience.

This was Frederica Hale at work. The mere sight of it was enough to make Scott’s aching heart twist in his chest.

She said that she was here on business, thought Scott. She even said that she had work tonight. I just never thought…

The problem was that he should have thought it. He should have at least considered it, knowing what he knew about her. And there wasn’t likely to be a lot of other legal work for one of the state’s attorneys to do in Mermaid County on a Saturday night.

Looking at her now, Scott didn’t know who he was angrier with: her for obscuring her purpose or him for allowing himself to be blinded by her – by the way that she moved, the directness of her gaze, and the way that she felt against him. Even the sound of her laughter, the scent of her on his skin, and the way that her serious face lit up with pleasure at the mere sight of him were distracting to him.

No wonder he hadn’t allowed himself to wonder too much about Frederica’s business in town. If he had, he wouldn’t have let himself get to know her as well as he had. He certainly wouldn’t have spent enough time with Frederica to fall in love with her.

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