What's Cooking? by Sherryl Woods

Author:Sherryl Woods [Woods, Sherryl]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Silhouette
Published: 2005-10-19T22:00:00+00:00

“My, my, looks to me like things are heating up between you and the hunky photographer,” Melanie commented as she made herself a cup of tea, then sat at the kitchen table, clearly prepared for a long visit.

“Make yourself at home, why don’t you?” Maggie grumbled, wondering why anyone had ever thought Rose Cottage was serene. Her life had been in upheaval ever since she got here.

“This was my home, at least for a while,” Melanie replied, obviously undaunted by Maggie’s sour mood. “And technically, I suppose it’s Mom’s, now that Grandmother’s gone.”

“Whatever.”

Melanie gave her a knowing look. “Is Rose Cottage working its magic on you, too? Is love in the air?”

“You are so annoying,” Maggie retorted, sidestepping the question. “What on earth does Mike see in you?”

“I don’t annoy him,” Melanie replied easily. “I save my best pestering for my sisters.”

“How unfortunate for me.”

“Don’t complain. You were right in the thick of all the pestering that went on here when I was first seeing Mike. It’s my turn now. Come on, Margaret, talk. If you don’t spill all your secrets to me, I can have Ashley and Jo here this weekend.”

Heaven forbid! Maggie thought. She frowned at her sister. “What do you want to know?” she asked cautiously. She wasn’t about to divulge more than she absolutely had to.

“I want to know what’s going on with you and Rick, of course. In detail. For a man you claim to have run away to avoid, he seems to be around a lot.”

“Typical man. He doesn’t know when he’s not welcome,” Maggie claimed.

“Or he’s determined to change your mind,” Melanie suggested. “Is that it? Is he wooing you?”

“Wooing me?” Maggie echoed incredulously. “Where do you get this stuff?”

“We were raised by a southern belle. In Mama’s world, men wooed women.”

Maggie laughed. “Yes, I suppose they did. Can you imagine Dad doing all that wooing?”

“Actually, I can,” Melanie said, her expression thoughtful. “Have you ever heard how passionate he gets over the freshness of the ingredients for one of his famous Italian dinners?”

“And you think that translates to other passions?”

“Of course.”

Maggie thought of Rick’s passion for photography, of his growing passion for the Northern Neck of Virginia. She supposed there were some parallels to his passion for her.

Melanie eyed her curiously. “Is Rick as passionate for you as he is for the perfect shot of some model in a bikini?”

Maggie blushed even as she gave a shrug. “Maybe.”

Her sister’s gaze narrowed. “Why don’t you look happier about that?”

“It’s not the passion that worries me,” she told Melanie. “It’s all the rest. What if there isn’t anything more?”

“Have you ever spent one dull moment with him?”

“No,” Maggie admitted.

“Then I don’t think that’s something you need to worry about.”

“But we haven’t known each other that long. We could still run out of shared interests.”

“You don’t have to marry the man right this second,” Melanie reminded her.

“I know that,” Maggie snapped. Marriage wasn’t the issue. The problem was that she was likely to fall in love with him way before she knew if they had anything besides sex in common.

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