Revival by Noelle Adams

Author:Noelle Adams [Adams, Noelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Literature & Fiction, Women's Fiction, Contemporary Women, Romance, Contemporary, Contemporary Fiction
Publisher: Noelle Adams
Published: 2013-10-02T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

Leila felt rather hassled as she frantically chopped vegetables, trying to pull something decent together for supper while also picking up the living room and helping the girls with their spelling words.

Baron was coming over for dinner in about ten minutes, and she wasn’t even close to ready for him.

After their first night together, Leila finally started to believe that it wasn’t too dangerous to invest in the relationship for real, to not hold back as much as she could. So the last month had been a whirlwind as she tried to grow accustomed to dating Baron James.

“When will he be here, Mommy?” Charlotte called from the living room.

Leila laid down her knife and walked into the other room, picking up some books and a doll-shoe from the floor as she did. “Pretty soon,” she told the girls, who were kneeling on the floor beside the coffee table, working on their spelling sheets. “Try to finish up your homework so you’ll be done when he gets here.”

Leila preferred for the girls to eat early, since it made the evenings easier and allowed plenty of time for them to be ready for their bedtime. But Baron couldn’t get away from work that early, so everything had been pushed back.

“I’m almost done,” Jane informed them, her eyes never straying from her paper.

“Good. Charlotte will be done soon too. Then we can eat with Mr. Baron.”

Leila grabbed a coffee mug from that morning from a side table and swept a bunch of random papers into a pile that she stuffed in a drawer. Then she hurried back into the kitchen. She stared at her pile of chopped peppers, zucchini, mushrooms, onions, garlic and tomatoes and then grabbed a big pan and put it on the stovetop to heat. She’d already put pasta on to boil, and she’d bought some fresh bread and a bottle of wine on her way home from work.

So all she needed was some sort of sauce to make the vegetables work with the pasta.

Leila stared desperately into her pantry, hoping inspiration would materialize out of the chaos of bottles and boxes.

She really should have planned ahead.

As she was mulling over her problem, she heard a knock on the front door. Then a squeal and the scamper of feet told her that Charlotte and Jane had gone to let Baron in.

Closing her pantry in disgust, she peeked into the living room to see the girls giving Baron a hug. He still looked a little stiff at this sign of affection, but he was slowly getting used to it.

Leila’s chest ached with tenderness as she watched. It was so incredibly sweet how Baron was learning to relate to the girls.

He glanced over Jane’s fair head to meet Leila’s eyes. He smiled and his dark eyes softened.

Leila smiled back rather foolishly. She was still amazed that he would appear so happy to see her. Her. Leila.

Nothing special in any way.

“I’m a bit of a mess today,” Leila told him, “but I’ll have things together in a few minutes.

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