The Cowboy at the Creek by Liz Isaacson

Author:Liz Isaacson [Isaacson, Liz]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: AEJ Creative Works

Fourteen

“So measure that salt into this bowl.” Natalie set the mixing bowl in front of Marie. “One teaspoon. And then one of the baking soda.”

She was making her chocolate-chocolate chip cookies, and though she had the recipe memorized, she consulted it to make sure she’d told Marie right. The girl did as she was instructed, and Natalie told her about the dry and wet ingredients. “So the oven is hot, and we’re ready to mix. You want to cream the butter and sugar?”

“Yep.” She got off the stool Natalie had set up for her and moved it to the corner of the kitchen, where Natalie’s stand mixer waited.

“Put it on three or four,” Nat said. “I measured in the butter and sugars already.”

“Nat,” Marie said, her hand poised on the mixer’s on switch.

“Yeah, sweetie?”

“Are you and Uncle Owen going to get married?”

Natalie blinked, blinked. “I—I don’t know.”

She frowned, clearly puzzling through something. She switched on the mixer, and her troubles seemed to dash away with the speed of the blade attachment. She didn’t ask any more questions that weren’t related to cooking, but Natalie couldn’t seem to move past the first one.

Would Owen ask her to marry him this time? She couldn’t imagine a scenario where she’d refuse him if he did, and a pin of fear pushed into her heart, expanding until she felt like she’d swallowed a sword.

By the time Owen arrived to pick them up for dinner, she’d managed to clear her discomfort, but she still wielded the cookies like shields, like they alone would ward off any unwanted questions about her future with Owen.

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