Starter Wife by Bethany Lopez

Author:Bethany Lopez [Lopez, Bethany]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bethany Lopez

Twenty-One

Whitney

“Silas, I told you to take out the trash!” I yelled as I scurried around my living room lighting candles.

“I know,” came his response.

“Then why haven’t you done it?” I yelled back, exasperated. “Luca will be here any minute.”

“I’m in the game,” Si called out.

“Oh my God, that stupid game,” I muttered, shaking my head as I hurried into the kitchen.

Silas often spent his free time gaming with his friends online and once he was playing, it would take a natural disaster to get him off of it. Drives me crazy. You could hear his shouts and taunts through the house and I often had to put on headphones or turn up the volume on the TV to drown him out.

I gave everything a cursory glance as I moved through the room.

There was a charcuterie board on the counter, ready to be the first course. I had a salad made and chilling in the fridge, a whole chicken roasting in the oven, potatoes boiling on the stove, and asparagus ready to be sautéed when the chicken was almost done.

There was no way I was going to cook Luca Italian food, maybe ever, but I had plenty other meals I was excited to make and share with him. This one being the easiest, giving me time to be engaged rather than hunkered over the stove, while he was interacting with my children for the first time.

I popped into the downstairs bathroom real quick to double check the makeup I’d applied earlier, before I’d started cleaning and prepping, but before I could run up the stairs to reapply, the doorbell rang.

“Crap,” I muttered before yelling up the stairs again, “Silas!”

This time he must have heard me and the doorbell because the loud thumps of his feet hitting the floor and then coming down the stairs flooded the house.

“I’m here … I’m doing it,” he said hurriedly as he rushed past me to the kitchen trash can and began taking the bag out.

“Don’t forget to put a new bag in,” I hissed before moving back through the house to greet Luca at the door.

I paused, smoothed down the front of my shirt, and picked lint off of my capri pants, before releasing a deep breath and opening the door with a smile.

“Hey,” I murmured, moving in to tiptoe up and give Luca a kiss on the lips. “Welcome to our home.”

“Thank you,” he said, lifting his hand to offer me a bouquet of flowers. “These are for you.”

“Aww, they’re beautiful, thank you,” I said, accepting the gift and lifting the fragrant blooms to take a sniff.

I stepped aside to let him in and noticed he’d styled his hair differently, used some product or something. When he lifted his hand to mess with it, before stopping and dropping it, I bit back a smile.

He was nervous, which was really cute. I didn’t think I’d ever seen Luca anything but completely confident.

“Come with me to the kitchen and I’ll put these in some water,” I said, leading him through the house.

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