Unruly Magic by Chafer Camilla

Author:Chafer, Camilla [Chafer, Camilla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Audacious
Published: 2011-07-26T04:00:00+00:00

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Instead of heading straight inside when I got home, I stopped my car just as it was fully on the driveway and hopped out and went across the street.

“Hello stranger!” Annalise threw the door open with a wide smile and pulled me inside. I followed her into the kitchen past baskets full of materials and yarns of all colours and patterns. “I’m just making coffee and you are just in time to dish the dirt.”

“There’s no dirt.” I laughed when she raised her eyebrows at me. “Okay, there might be some dirt. But I actually came by to see Gage and give him this.” I held up the slim envelope of cash I’d gotten from the bank earlier. “I said I’d pay him back. Can I leave it with you?”

“You can leave it with him.” Annalise pointed behind me and turned away just as I looked over my shoulder to see Gage padding towards us.

“Hey,” he said and leaned down to kiss me on the cheek before ambling past. I blinked back surprise. I hadn’t expected to see him, nor get a friendly kiss. Perhaps the finger crushing incident hadn’t bothered him at all. That said, I had to remind myself I was cross at him about that too, just not enough to say anything.

“Hi. I brought the money. For the paint.”

“Just put it on the shelf there.” Gage waved his hand at the shelf of pans over the range so I slotted the envelope in between pans so it stuck out a little. “Make me a cup, sis’,” he said to Annalise.

“Coming up.” Annalise was already pulling mugs out of the cabinet by her head and testing the pot with the back of her hand. “Still hot,” she announced as she poured then invited us to finish it how we liked. There was no standing on ceremony here.

“I almost forgot, I had something to show you, Stella.” Gage set his mug down and loped out. I heard him take the stairs.

Annalise slipped into a seat and motioned for me to park myself. “And while he’s out of the way, who is your house guest?”

“That would be Evan. You’ve seen a picture of him.”

“Ahh, the boyfriend. You never did say where he’d been.”

“I thought he was dead.” I said, then backtracked a little. “At least, I assumed he might have been, but he wasn’t and he’s been looking for me.” I sighed when Annalise looked at me with her eyebrows raised. Yeah, I wasn’t making any sense. “Long story,” I said.

“You don’t say. And here he is?”

“Here he is.”

“To stay?” pressed Annalise.

I shrugged. “I don’t know. I don’t think he’s into small town living. He wants to go back to Texas.”

“And you?”

I leant back in my chair. And me? That was a good question and one I’d tried to not focus on. “I was just starting to feel at home here.”

“Then don’t let a man take you away from that.”

“Easier said than done.”

“Always,” agreed Annalise, “but take it from one who knows.

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