Read Cake Love: All Things Payne Online
Authors: Elizabeth Lynx
Cake Love: All Things Payne (37 page)
He should really say something. Demetri knows how Laura hates it when he doesn’t respond to her questions immediately or ever. But, truth be told, she never asked a question to begin with, she just blurted out she was pregnant. In his defense he thought she was having a coughing attack. She does get those when she is getting over a cold, but now that he thinks about it she hasn’t had a cold in months.
Bang.
Laura slaps the stick on the black ironwork table causing the dog in the apartment next to them to start his yippy bark. Demetri tries to show her his emotions on his face but for some reason his lips won’t move. All he feels is hot, like he is now sitting in a sauna and not the perfect seventy degree air.
“Say something!”
She is shrieking now. His head is telling him danger but his heart is telling him joy. How can he be a father when he’s never known his own? Isn’t that something you learn from your dad or a father figure, none of which he ever had?
Demetri stops staring at the stick and stands a little too fast, knocking the matching black iron chair to the ground. The neighbor’s dog begins his barking song again. His eyes lock onto Laura’s stormy blue gaze and he grins. It’s a goofy smile, not one he is used to giving, probably because he hasn’t had many times in life to give it. Laura is the only one who has ever dug a smile out of him. Now, it’s their baby who caused his face to crack.
“So, I guess we have to buy decaf from now on, huh?”
Demetri gathers from Laura’s expression she did not expect that question from him. Despite the confused glare she gives him with a snort added to let him know she thinks he is being ridiculous, Demetri grabs her. His arms wrap around her petit frame and he kisses her completely. He may not be a poet or even someone who could write press releases if in a bind, but he understands how to show her the joy she brings to his life.
Picking her up in his arms he take her back into their condo and places her gently on their bed, curling up beside her. He nuzzles her neck, “I love you. I love us and I have already fallen in love with our baby.”
THE END
You have read this tale of Morgana and Henrik and wonder if there is more. Well, yes and no. I am afraid Morgana and Henrik have found their happily ever after, but their friends haven’t. Check out my weekly character blog post
Payne In The Blog
to read about their friends.
Also, I plan in 2016 to come out with Evaleen’s, Aria’s & Tiffany’s stories too. This is the Payne that just won’t die!
Other things happening to me, I wrote a story that is free to read on Wattpad called
That Sweet Deal
. It made it to the Top 25 of Harlequin’s
So You Think You Can Write
contest. If it doesn’t make the cut and I don’t win that book publishing deal from them, then I will publish it myself (after some more editing of course). Depending on how that goes, you might see that in 2016 too.
I have also entered NaNoWriMo this year. You can read the chapters as I post them on Wattpad. It’s called
Soaring Below
. The story is a comedy but with a more serious tone. Check it out for free!
If you like the Payne series then come hang out with a bunch of funny women, women who like to chat about Payne, cake, sexy men, and reading. It’s my Payne support group called
SWIM Meet
on Facebook.
Here are my social links and list of books!
Facebook Author Page:
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Character blog - Payne In The Blog:
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Goodreads:
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Amazon Author Page:
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Newsletter:
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This is my big shout out thank you to everyone! Seriously, everyone. If you have read one of my books, reviewed one, commented on a post on my Facebook page, twitter tagged me, read one of my blog posts or even just laughed at one of my funny meme posts, then thank you.
You see, every little bit you do helps an indie author. You may not think those small acts do much but they do. We don’t have big publishers behind up with a huge marketing team and seven editors catching every tiny little missed comma. We only have ourselves, maybe an editor or two that we ask if they take monopoly money as an IOU, and a few dedicated fans that help us organize some promo stuff.
Therefore I ask you, when you see an indie author that you like or enjoyed one of their books, give them a shout out or even drop them a line to let them know you liked the book. It means the world to us and helps us so much!
Therefore, I am not doing my usual dedication of family, friends, colleagues who helped me get to this point (you know who you are - and you’re the best!). This is a dedication to everyone else. Every reader, fan and passerby for doing more than you can possibly imagine.
* A special thanks to William Shakespeare. You are one of my favorite authors and so I had to rip off one of your sonnets. You can't write amazing things that stand the test of time and not expect me to turn it into a poem about vaginas! I had to do it. Had to.
Thank you – Elizabeth Lynx