Wild Blue Yonder (The Ceruleans: book 3)
“Aching, heavy muscles that were unaccustomed to activity, sure – but at the same time a lightness in me that I’d missed so much. Across the table I caught Jude watching me, smiling at me, and I smiled back.
Dining ‘chez Estelle and Adam’, it turned out, meant eating in the snug, away from the others in the dining room. Since their only private space was a bedroom, which wasn’t suitable for a dinner party, Adam had commandeered this room. He’d pushed the sofa back and brought the round wooden ta...ble with four chairs into the centre of the room. Estelle had gone to some effort to create ‘atmos’, as she called it – fresh flowers on the windowsill, a crisp white tablecloth on the table, a centerpiece shabby-chic candelabra holding five blue candles and John Legend playing from an iPod docking station in the corner. Clearly, Estelle and Adam were making a big effort to back up Jude’s ‘life on the island can be fun’ initiative, but the couples-only aspect of the evening made me squirm.MoreLess
Dining ‘chez Estelle and Adam’, it turned out, meant eating in the snug, away from the others in the dining room. Since their only private space was a bedroom, which wasn’t suitable for a dinner party, Adam had commandeered this room. He’d pushed the sofa back and brought the round wooden ta...ble with four chairs into the centre of the room. Estelle had gone to some effort to create ‘atmos’, as she called it – fresh flowers on the windowsill, a crisp white tablecloth on the table, a centerpiece shabby-chic candelabra holding five blue candles and John Legend playing from an iPod docking station in the corner. Clearly, Estelle and Adam were making a big effort to back up Jude’s ‘life on the island can be fun’ initiative, but the couples-only aspect of the evening made me squirm.MoreLess
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