An Acquired Taste
Page 24
“I still can’t get used to the idea. I wish I could have been a fly on the wall when your father told Ms. Lillie that he’d bought the building from my father.”
I laugh and nearly choke on my cobbler. “Trust me, you would not have. It’s a good thing she didn’t require your services again because she went through about five different skin colors. In the end, she knows it’s the best for everyone. Daddy’s writing into the lease that he can’t make any decisions about the property at all. She’ll do it, including expanding the space, so that’s what finally appeased her. She’ll pay a leasing company her rent every month, and we’ll all pretend he doesn’t own the building. Except me, because I’m not paying my father rent.”
He picks up what’s left of our plates and moves them to the living room so we can snuggle on the couch. “You had a lot of nerve saying I was born with a silver spoon.”
“I thought we weren’t going to bring up the past anymore.” Of course, that benefits me more than him because I was actually the asshat the whole time. He didn’t always react well to my actions, but I started it all.
“Whatever you want, love.” He lies back and pulls me on top of him, kissing me again.
Before we get carried away, I say, “Can we go looking at properties this evening for my new restaurant? We have some daylight left.” Every time I think about my dream restaurant being realized, I get all giddy.
“Amber, we just got home”—he looks at that gold watch of his—“five hours ago. Can we start tomorrow?”
I sit up, looking down at him. “Look, mister, if you’re not up to the task, I’ll ask Chef Buccola to assign someone else. Don’t think because you’re my boyfriend that I’m going to let you get in the way of me opening the greatest bistro Austin has ever seen.”
He pulls me down on top of him and grabs two big handfuls of my butt, grinning. “Say it again.”
I roll my eyes because this is not the first time in the past few days he’s asked me to do this. “Ugh, you’re my boyfriend.”
“Damn right I am.”
He claims my mouth again, tasting of the pie I created, sweet and smooth.
Damn right you are.
The End
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Sweet Potato Pie
4 medium round sweet potatoes, washed
1 pound butter, melted
2 cups sugar
1 dozen eggs
1 12-ounce can evaporated milk
2 tbsp nutmeg
2 tbsp vanilla extract
4 prepared pie shells
Bake sweet potatoes at 400 degrees between 90 minutes and 2 hours depending on the size of the potatoes. Allow to cool enough to handle.
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Remove skin from sweet potatoes and blend. Add butter, sugar, eggs, milk, nutmeg, and vanilla, and beat until smooth. Divide batter among pie shells and bake on middle rack for 35-45 minutes.
Yield: 4 pies
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Kelly Cain is a native Californian but has spent the last couple of decades in Texas, currently residing in the live music capital of the world, Austin. Consequently, most of her books are set somewhere between those two locations.
Kelly writes multicultural romance with determined women directing their own fates, and the swoon-worthy men who adore them. She loves reading most genres but please don’t ask her to pick just one. However, she can pick her favorite book boyfriend – Will Herondale.
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