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“Melinda!”
“What!”
“You’re drooling over my guy. Stop it. Anyway, what about Doctor Daniel? You’ve been hiding the real guy from me.”
Melinda changed the subject. “Tell me this love story? I’m intrigued.”
“Hmm, I know what you’re doing and I’ll let you off the hook for now.” She took a deep breath. “It all started when I found a diary written in 1947 by Rose, Thomas’s sister. It’s her love for a man named Jacob Evans, who just happens to be Dean’s grandfather.”
Mack then spent over an hour telling her sister all about Rose and Jacob, and that she’d hopefully be able to rest once Jacob knew the whole story, even though it was heartbreaking.
Chapter 36
Mack was all worked up while she waited for Thomas and Lucas to appear. She was really worried about Thomas. She knew he would be upset with Lucas leaving after dinner with his parents.
Just as she decided to keep busy and clean the kitchen, Dean walked in wearing a pair of well-worn jeans and pale blue shirt. What a distraction.
He noticed Mack looking upset and walked around the table to take her face in his hands. “You want to get naked?” He kissed her.
“What is it with you two? Two seconds later and you would have had her on the table,” Melinda interrupted, walking into the kitchen.
She winked at Dean. “No, we already did that,” Mack told her sister, laughing.
“Oh my God, did I need to know that?”
“Need to know what?” Daniel came up to his wife. He slid his arms around her as he pressed his lips to the back of her neck.
“Nothing. Let’s set the table, the food will be here soon, hopefully at the same time as Thomas and Lucas.”
Mack whispered. “You look hot. I’m going to show you later just how hot!” Mack walked past Dean and rubbed against the straining erection he was trying his best to hide.
He shuddered. All he wanted to do was grab hold of her and go someplace quiet. She drove him crazy with her sassy mouth and sexy body.
Not long after, both Thomas and Lucas arrived, and shortly afterwards, the food finally arrived as well.
Dinner was eaten with everyone slightly squashed together. The table was really made for four people but had six seated around. It was cozy.
“Lucas, did you catch anything this afternoon?” Daniel asked his son.
Lucas had a mouth full of food and grinned. “We caught three more yellow perch. Thomas is going to clean them, and freeze them so I can eat them when I come to visit.”
Everyone went quiet. “That’s great, Lucas, and I hope I get to eat some with you when I bring you to visit.” Mack wanted to reassure Thomas that Lucas would be back.
“Of course you can. Will you make a cake for us? Thomas said it would be the blind something when I asked him to bake you a cake.”
Thomas laughed. “I said it would be a bit like the blind leading the blind if Lucas and I baked a cake.”
“Oh, Lucas, leave the cake baking to Auntie Mack, okay?”
“Okay, Mommy.” Then he grinned. “Granny said—” before he could finish Mack shoved the ice cream in front of him and his mother shoved a piece of chocolate into his mouth. Mack glanced at Dean, his face alight with mirth with his effort not to laugh aloud.
Lucas, not wanting to be outdone, swallowed the chocolate, grinned at Thomas, then said, “Mommy, all Granny said, was that she gets some herbs from the Jamaicans at the market, and puts them in her cakes. Mrs. Green was there one day and she said they were the best cakes this side of Boston, but grandma never lets me eat them. I don’t know why, but she said I’m not old enough to take an affro…dizzy…ache, no, that’s not right. It sounded something like that, though,” he finished with a puzzled expression.
“Aphrodisiac,” Daniel supplied, which broke the silence that had followed Lucas’s little speech.
Once all the dishes were clean, Melinda, Daniel, and Lucas were ready to leave. Mack walked over to stand beside Thomas and leaned in close to him. “You’ll see him again real soon, Thomas. That I can promise you.”
He took hold of Mack’s hand. “Thank you. You’re a kind young woman, and if you were my daughter, I would be proud of how you turned out.”
