Love on Lavender Island by Lauren Christopher

Author:Lauren Christopher
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9781503935358
Publisher: Montlake Romance, Seattle
Published: 2016-06-07T04:00:00+00:00

Paige wished she had something nice for Adam to come home to—maybe some kind of food he liked—but she hadn’t planned to be here when he returned. While he was showering, she scoured the fridge for leftovers, then spotted the strata Amanda had made the other morning. She pulled it out of the fridge, heated it up, threw together some lettuce and spinach leaves in a salad, and set everything on the table.

“What’s this?” he asked emerging from the bedroom hallway in clean jeans and bare feet, buttoning up his shirt.

“Dinner.”

“You cooked dinner for me?”

He looked so stunned and—if she wasn’t mistaken—touched that she almost wanted to lie and say yes. But she couldn’t.

“Um . . . no. I didn’t cook it. Amanda did. She pulls together whatever you have in the house. This was bread, ham, and eggs—I guess from your limited repertoire of sandwiches and eggs. But either way, it’s here for you. You look exhausted.”

“Amanda made this?”

“Yeah. Did you know she could make a strata?”

“Not at all.” Still looking baffled, he made his way to the table, then rubbed his hand over his jaw. “So all this time, she’s known how to cook, but she’s been suffering through my attempts?”

“Maybe she didn’t want to hurt your feelings.” Paige smiled. “Here, have a seat.” She joined him at the table. “Did MacGregor have a good time?”

“I think he did.”

“Did he make any decisions?”

“Unfortunately, he still won’t commit to a sale. I think he’s playing games with me. Can you be patient for a while longer?”

Paige shrugged. “I’m not going anywhere.”

He motioned with his fork to an empty plate. “You’re going to join me and eat, too, right?”

“I wasn’t going to stay. I’ll just grab something later at—”

“Paige, really. Share this with me.”

She sighed. Sitting here with Adam, acting as if they were actually dating, or at least friends, might be painful or thrilling—she wasn’t sure which. She didn’t want to get hurt by pining after him again. She didn’t want to get close, or fall head over heels in a crush and have him not return any sentiment whatsoever. But she was older now. Maybe she could handle it. She let him cut her a slice.

“So what did you and Amanda talk about?” he asked.

“I got a chance to talk to her about her mom—any good things I remembered. And—oh! Was it okay that I took her down to the harbor every day? She wanted to go. And was it okay I let her drink coffee?”

He smiled. “Coffee was okay. I think she’s been sneaking mine. Where was she going in the harbor? She’d asked me about that, too.”

“To the Friends of the Sea Lion center. I think she was volunteering.”

“Really?”

Paige wanted to tell him about Garrett, but she didn’t want to break Amanda’s confidence. Amanda had so few people here she knew or could trust that Paige didn’t want to ruin that. Instead, she stabbed at her salad so her face wouldn’t give anything away.

“Thank you again for the use of the meadow,” she said.

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