The Bride Wore Blue by Cindy Gerard

Author:Cindy Gerard
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9781459278875
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2011-09-26T16:02:34.135000+00:00

In the end, he’d had to play on her basic generosity to trick her into helping him with the meal. She contributed by making a salad while he fried the fish in a light coating of corn meal and cooked potatoes and carrots and onions in a separate pan

By the time she’d set the table and they’d had several wonderfully accidental run-ins near the sink and stove in the cramped area, the delicious cooking aromas and his constant banter had begun to loosen her up a little. Her responses to his running commentary on everything from the weather to colorful stories about the locals and his business adventures had stretched out from stilted “uh-huhs” to the occasional “you’re making that up” or “you are so full of it, Hazzard.” She’d even smiled a couple of times without first thinking if she should let herself. He began to take heart.

“So, what do you think?” he asked anxiously as she sat with her fork poised over her plate after swallowing a delicate mouthful of fish.

“I think—” she paused to sigh with obvious pleasure “—that you could have a position as a chef at any number of haute cuisine establishments on the Left Bank.”

He gave her a huge, proud smile. “That good, huh?”

She nodded. “That good. Too good, in fact. It’ll take me a week to work off what I’m planning to eat tonight.”

“Oh, I don’t know. From where I sit, it appears you could handle a few more pounds without ruining those fine lines.”

“Well,” she said, getting adept at deflecting his teasing innuendos, “it may not make any difference, anyway. Since I’ve been out of circulation so long, and since I walked away from several contracts already in the works, I may not be in demand when I’m ready to work again. If I decide to work again,” she added with a thoughtful look across the table and out the window.

J.D. wanted to zero in on her cryptic statement. He made himself hold back, purposely keeping the banter light. “From what I’ve seen of your career, it occurs to me that if you didn’t want to, you probably wouldn’t have to work again.”

She nodded. “Not for financial reasons, that’s true. Retirement at my age seems a bit premature, though, don’t you think?”

“No challenge in that,” he agreed. “So, if you decide not to go back to modeling, what would you like to do?”

When she spoke, it was apparent that she had given the subject some serious thought. “I might try my hand on the other side of the camera.”

He propped his forearm on the table and leaned back in the chair, considering. “Really? Well, they say that within every actor is a director waiting to burst out. Maybe the same holds true for models.”

She shrugged. “Maybe.”

She became unnaturally silent then and stayed that way throughout the remainder of the meal, no matter how hard he played for a reaction.

When it was over, he insisted: he washed, she dried. And in the homey

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