Recipe for Persuasion by Sonali Dev

Author:Sonali Dev [Dev, Sonali]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks
Published: 2020-05-25T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Of course, Rico knew that Yash and Ashna were cousins, but still, seeing them together was strange. Most people’s body language was different when they were around people they were close to, but Ashna took that to a whole new level. She was one person when she was around strangers and an entirely different person when she was with those she let in. There was a naked vulnerability to her with those she was close to. Until this moment he hadn’t realized quite how much he had missed that degree of connection.

When China announced that their families would be visiting the set today, Ashna had looked like she’d been shot. It had made Rico search the room for her father, the last person on earth he ever wanted to see. He forced himself not to relive his meeting with the man, or the fact that Ashna had sided with him. Fortunately, it seemed that he had decided not to visit his daughter today.

“You’ve literally not taken your eyes off your chef the entire time I’ve been here.” Zee had taken a flight down in the middle of his honeymoon—a completely idiotic thing to do, but also not at all surprising given that Zee knew that Rico’s pathetic ass had no one else.

Rico turned to him. “There, I’ll only stare into your pretty face for the rest of the afternoon.”

Zee laughed, but before Rico could respond Song walked over with her mother and sister. Song’s sister had brought her baby and as soon as Zee waved to her and said hi in that high-pitched way people said hi to babies, she made a leap at Zee. Or rather she leaped at the huge solitaires in Zee’s ears.

The moment she was perched on Zee, she noticed Rico’s bun and decided that was more worth her time than Zee’s bling. Rico took her from Zee. Almost immediately, she wanted to go back, unable to choose between Zee’s rocks and Rico’s beard and bun. Song’s sister tried to take her back, needlessly embarrassed, because both Zee and Rico were just vain enough to love the attention. Not that it mattered what anyone wanted, because the determined little person refused outright to leave Rico and go to her mother.

This seemed to thrill Song and embarrass her sister some more.

“I’m so sorry,” this almost identical but somehow more put-together version of Song said.

“Please don’t apologize,” Rico said as the baby made a tight fist in his hair and tugged.

Being wanted this way by someone so tiny with a personality so huge was alarmingly satisfying. Rico would gladly take this uncomplicated, entirely self-assured love for as long as she wanted to give it.

“No wonder people have babies,” Zee said. “Is this one of those biological clock things for men no one told us about?”

Rico laughed, but he’d been wondering the same thing. Not that all that godfathering hadn’t softened him up for this. “Go on, I’m happy to keep her,” he told Song’s mother and sister. “You go ahead and mingle.

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