Stoplight Magic by Jo Barrett

Author:Jo Barrett [Barrett, Jo]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: romance, contemporary, short story
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Published: 2014-08-26T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Eleanor awoke to the smell of something wonderful. It couldn’t be Margaret’s cooking. Everything she made smelled like burnt broccoli. She was a lousy cook, which is why Eleanor ended up doing most of it. So if it wasn’t Margaret cooking, then who?

Slowly lifting her lids, she noticed the walls were not the walls of her bedroom. Then in a blink, it all came flooding back to her. The accident, Dustin, Mrs. Klein, but hadn’t she fallen asleep on the couch? She didn’t remember the living room looking like this.

Easing up on to her elbows, she glanced around the room and realized that Dustin had gotten her to the guest room and put her to bed. She twisted her lips into half a scowl. She’d missed being carried by a handsome man for the first time in her life.

“Oh well, maybe another time.” She made the mistake of shaking her head and let loose with a groan at the sharp slice of pain.

She scooted out from under the blanket to the edge of the bed and waited for the room to stop spinning. It took more than a minute, but eventually her world came back into focus, and she was able to stand. She took a steadying breath and began her journey down the hall toward that delicious smell.

Rounding the last corner, she was surprised to find Dustin in the kitchen, all alone, pulling what looked to be a large dish of lasagna from the oven. She had to blink a time or two to convince herself she wasn’t hallucinating. Oh, she knew men could cook, but she’d just never actually witnessed it before. Her brother couldn’t even boil water.

“Did you make that?” she asked.

Dustin spun around at the faint sound of voice. “Did I wake you?”

“No, yes, I don’t know,” she said, with a smile. “I woke up to a wonderful aroma and had to get up and see what it was.”

He grinned. “Good. Cause I was about to come and do just that, per your doctor’s instructions, and wake you. And yes, it’s lasagna, and yes I made it.” He pulled out two plates from the cabinet by the stove. “Hungry?”

She shuffled over to the counter, her hair slightly disheveled, her tee shirt somewhat wrinkled, and her bright white socks poking out from beneath her lounge pants made for a rather enticing sight.

She leaned over the dish and sniffed with a smile. “Starving.”

“Good, then why don’t you go sit down and I’ll bring it out.”

“I’ll help,” she said, moving to get a couple of napkins from the holder by the cutting board.

He gently clasped her by the shoulders and guided her out of the kitchen and into the dining room. She was a bit too enticing in such close quarters, and she was recovering. He needed to keep his libido in check.

“You need to sit down and let me wait on you,” he said.

“But I feel fine,” she said.

He pulled out a chair and placed her in it, then leaned down as close as he dared to look her in the eye.

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