Single Mum Seeks…. Teresa Hill

scraping so hard Lily was afraid he was going to gouge the Sheetrock underneath.

      “Hey, why don’t we take a break while I start dinner, okay?” she suggested.

      “Dinner?” He perked right up at that.

      “What would you like?” Lily asked, shutting off her steamer and heading for the refrigerator. “Come on. You can pick.”

      If he couldn’t have Andie Graham, he could at least have a good dinner.

      They dug through Lily’s refrigerator, Jake settling on a chicken and rice dish Lily had made last week that he’d particularly enjoyed. She’d bought twice as much as she had the week before, astonished at how much he could eat and wanting to have enough to send home to Nick, too, and maybe for leftovers.

      She’d learned Nick and Jake lived on takeout and her leftovers, and decided she was going to teach Jake to cook. Otherwise, they might not survive.

      He was cutting up chicken, and Lily was assembling ingredients when the girls burst into the kitchen, arguing as they went.

      “Cannot!” Ginny said, heading for the refrigerator.

      “Can, too!” Brittany said, her bottom lip sticking out in a pout so adorable, it was all Lily could do not to laugh.

      It was a good thing she looked cute when she pouted, because she pouted a lot and whined. The whining got really old, but the cute pout often saved Lily from getting too irritated.