Chapter 9
Unlike the night before, Laura was perfectly happy to put a little more effort into her appearance before dinner with Connor and his family.
But not enough so her mother noticed. She knew it was perverse, of course, that desire to hide when she was taking an action that would make her own mother happy. And she wanted to hide it anyway.
She had more time to think about it than she had the night before, anyway. Her mother had banned her from the kitchen after Laura knocked over a colander full of multicolored salad greens fresh out of the garden, muttering about her being jumpy as a june bug.
Nothing more than a quick shower after work, then using a few sparkling clips to hold back the curls around her face and let the rest hang free. A blouse that brought out the blue in her e
