Of Vinegar and Honey, Part V: "Day of Reckoning"
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Part V of the Of Vinegar and Honey romance series.
He was still flipping listlessly through channels. Careful not to disturb him, she set the tall glass of juice on the small table beside him. With her mind and thoughts already anticipating meeting James, she didn’t notice how his aristocratic nose moved as he caught the scent of her perfume.
He arched a brow as he moved his eyes up while she was busy adjusted the position of the glass on the table. She was still oblivious to him as well as the soft blush in her cheeks.
“Perfume?” he remarked. “For the post office?”
She flickered up big eyes, shaking her head. “I smelled of fried foods.”
He calmly studied her big eyes a moment. This usually made her fidget, but come hell or high-water, she wouldn’t show it now and held fast. He finally turned his eyes back to the television. Fighting not to look relieved, she glanced over at the mantle clock. It was almost 12:20. Then she returned her gaze to his profile as she straightened.
“Well, I’ll be going then.
“Maddy?” he said. She quickly looked back at him. Her cheeks were red, but she thanked the heavens he wasn’t looking at her.
“Yes, Sir?”
“There are two things that I really, really hate, and what I consider unforgiveable,” he said as he watched the flipping channels. “One is disloyalty.” Then he raised his eyes to her somewhat flushed face. “Two,” he said with deliberate sloth, “are people who lie to me. I consider lying, cowardice, and I can’t emphasize it enough, Maddy, but I loathe cowards above all else.”
She barely stopped herself from swallowing a lump, and nodded. “I know, Sir.” Then she looked at him again, but blinked when, to her surprise, he smiled.
“Good,” he said lightly, friendly even.
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Of Vinegar and Honey, Part V - Catharina Shields
Of Vinegar and Honey
Part V
Day of Reckoning
Published by Catharina Shields at SMASHWORDS
2nd Edition
© 2014 by Catharina Shields All Rights Reserved
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Edited by D.C.Greenes
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01_96_DividerHeart_PNGChapter 16: The Little Green Monster
Chapter 17: On Thin Ice
Chapter 18: Miracles and Misunderstandings
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01_DividerChapter 16
01_96_DividerHeart_PNGThe Little Green Monster
The following day began and ended much differently than he had expected. A person would think that the amazing and unexpected help
from the night before would have changed the dynamics between them, but the way she was behaving now it was as if it never happened. Then again, the alternative; that it was inconsequential to her, was outright offensive to him and he didn’t want to go there.
He was sitting at the kitchen table. She was quietly sitting beside him. Since the moment she’d awakened, she had returned to being her old meek self. Surely she couldn’t have forgotten what she’d done for him the evening before? He expected that she would at least be uncomfortable about it since she was such a proper Catholic girl. But no. She appeared to be completely unfazed.
The question he once asked himself and Ron almost a week and a half ago reared its head: was she insane?
He was staring nonstop at her; his gaze quietly moving over her serene face. He was trying to gauge her mood, but as she helped him with his breakfast he noticed that she seemed particularly far away with her thoughts.
Then he got an idea. Maybe she was distracted because she was thinking about other things, mundane things, like her responsibilities as his caregiver, and she was just a little distracted? Yet…she seemed suspiciously dreamier than she ought to be if that were the case. So now the question became, what was the cause of that dreamy look? Then he felt something twist in his heart. Or should he be asking, who was the cause of that dreamy look on her face? Ron? Someone from the church she’d visited?
It sure as hell wasn’t him for all the attention he was getting.
He was handsomely dressed in a black turtleneck jersey, matching blazer, black slacks, socks, and shoes. He knew he always looked sexy in black. He wanted to look sexy because he wanted her attention—and damn it! He wasn’t getting it. He squelched his temper, born from stung pride. No woman had ever been as disinterested in him as Miss Madelaine Croft was now.
The unfairness of it all was, with his thoughts the way they were lately, she looked extra pretty to him. She was dressed in her burgundy faux-vest dress with her long black curls bound in a low tail down her back. It was the same dress she’d worn when she first arrived. Still, to him, even while forcing his temper down, she looked delicate and painfully attractive. It was as if he were looking at her for the first time. In essence, that’s exactly what he was doing. Too bad it was one-sided.
She seemed to be on auto-pilot for all the care she was putting into helping him with his breakfast. Her face had a quiet, distant look because that was exactly where her thoughts were—far, far away.
Fortunately for her, though, he was clueless about her real thoughts.
Madelaine was thinking about James and the events that had brought him back to Illinois. She recalled a time when he was so adamant about leaving rural Freeport that he couldn’t talk about anything else. He had even sworn that once he left Illinois, he’d never come back.
She smiled wistfully in thought. God really does work in mysterious ways.
She was