The Sheik's Redemption Excerpt
The Del Taran Series
“What are you doing tonight?”
Rachel read the text message and smiled, a warmth spreading through her body. Despite her promise to focus on work this morning, she picked up her cell phone and responded to Astir’s message. “Hopefully making you dinner!”
She set her phone down again, turning to her computer to finish editing the video she’d recorded this morning. It was dessert day and there was a pan of brownies on the counter. They were not just ordinary brownies though. Nope, these were marshmallow brownies with peanut butter swirl! They were cooling at the moment, but she’d warm them up again before serving them to Astir for dessert.
Of course, she wouldn’t mind if he had her for dessert tonight! Smiling, she clicked on the editing buttons in order to spruce up her latest video, splicing and dicing, adding music to the background, deleting a couple of scenes and softening the lighting with the handy-dandy editing tools. A half hour later, she loaded up the video!
“Done!” she sighed with happiness. After that, she answered e-mails, smiled when she received a message from a new company asking to advertise with her videos, replied to several viewer questions, then turned off her computer so that she could work on the craft idea for tomorrow’s video. She was going to paint bird houses. But these bird houses needed to be different somehow. Sitting down at her craft table, she contemplated several options until she heard that special ding, letting her know that she had another message.
“Will I get a brownie for dessert?” Astir asked.
Rachel’s mouth fell open and she glanced over her shoulder at the computer. “You’ve already seen the video?” Her fingers trembled as she typed out the question.
“Absolutely!” came his almost immediate response.
Delighted, Rachel typed back her reply. “I’ll make sure that you have two brownies then!”
“I’ll be there by six,” was his reply.
There was a new spring to her step as she picked up various craft pieces, trying them onto the bird house in an effort to make the project more unique, interesting and easy to accomplish by her viewers. By four thirty that afternoon, she put aside the oddly elaborate bird house and rushed to the shower. Time to get ready to see Astir!
