Six Sunday #13 On Lavender Lane preview

Wow, I was afraid I'd miss posting this week's six sentences after South Puget Sound was hit with the heaviest snowfall in forty years followed the next day by the worst ice storm in decades. We ended up with an inch of ice coating 12-15" of snow. (If you're not interested in reading more, just scroll down to the italicized sentences.)

Along with 300,000+ others we lost power for a few days, which, except for the nerve-wracking gunshot and cannon sounds of trees falling everywhere, including our back yard, wasn't as bad as it could have been. Fortunately, the gas fireplace and gas range worked, so I was even able to made a stovetop version of the braised short ribs Maddy makes in the opening of On Lavender Lane.

Apologies for breaking official Six Sentence Sunday rules by going off topic, and the rest of the storm story with pics will eventually end up here sometime next week.

Continuing their saga, Lucas and Maddy are now a couple, but she's still not ready to talk about a future. Although it's definitely not his first choice, Lucas has been going along with that. Until a new client points out that any past with her, checkered or not, gives him a step up on his competition.

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Enjoy. . .

Other than the Frenchman, who, obviously being an idiot, had put himself out of the picture, Lucas hadn't, until this moment, considered having any competition. But Maddy was bright, gorgeous, and had always been well liked. It would be stupid to think that he'd be the only guy in town who'd notice that she was suddenly, conveniently available.

Which meant he was going to have to pick up his game. Patience was one thing. Stupidity another.