All Chapters of The Hockey Playboy's Plus Size Obsession : Chapter 101 - Chapter 109

Chapter 24The intercom buzzed again before Rook could answer, and the delivery person said that the box was getting heavy and that someone needed to come down and sign. I told Rook that it was probably my mom because she was the only person who would send a box from Heart's Bakery to his building at eight thirty at night.Rook said that your mom does not sleep, does she, and I said that she never sleeps when she is baking, and he laughed and said that he would go down and get it because I was not supposed to be in the lobby alone after dark. I told him that I could go with him because the judge said we could be in public together as long as we were not holding hands in front of Lily, and he said that he would rather go alone and bring it up because it was marked fragile and he did not trust me not to drop it.I told him that I was a pastry chef and that I never dropped anything fragile, and he said that I dropped a bowl last week, and I said that was different because I was upset, an

Chapter 26The garment bag was hanging in my hotel closet by the time I came downstairs, and the front desk woman smiled at me like she knew a secret. She said that a very nice older woman dropped it off an hour ago and that she paid for it to be steamed, and I knew immediately that it was my mom because only my mom would pay extra to have a dress steamed.I took the bag upstairs and hung it on the bathroom door, and I opened the zipper slowly because I was afraid to look. Inside was a dress, and it was not pink and sparkly like Lily would have picked, and it was deep blue like midnight, and it was soft and simple and it had thin straps. Underneath it was a note from my mom in her handwriting, and it said that she saw this dress in a window and thought of me, and that every girl needed a dress that made her feel beautiful, and that she loved me.I tried the dress on, and it fit perfectly, which meant that my mom must have called Mrs Kowalski to get my size, and I looked in the mirror

Chapter 28The email about the dress being ready was still glowing on my phone screen, and Rook was already half asleep with his hand in mine and Lily snoring softly between us. I told him that the boutique said my dress was ready and that there was a surprise from a secret admirer, and he opened one eye and said that he had no idea what I was talking about, but his smile said that he was lying.He said that secret admirers were mysterious and that I should go find out who it was, and I told him that I knew exactly who it was and that he was terrible at keeping secrets. He laughed and said that he was good at keeping secrets when they mattered, and that this secret was worth keeping until morning. I told him to go to sleep because we had to be at the courthouse at eight, and he said that he would sleep if I would sleep, and we both closed our eyes.Lily woke us up at six thirty by sitting up and saying that she was hungry and that she wanted pancakes, and Rook said that we were havi

Chapter 30The shop door bell jingled again, and Lily stood in the doorway wearing her pink backpack and her new white sneakers with hearts, and Mrs Kowalski stood behind her holding her hand. I was still holding Rook's letter, and Rook was still down on one knee with the little box open, and Lily looked at us and said that she knew what Daddy was doing.Rook looked at Lily, and he said that you were supposed to be at school, and Lily said that Mrs Kowalski said that some things were more important than school and that this was one of them. Mrs Kowalski smiled and said that she told the school that Lily had a family emergency, and that this was a family emergency of the best kind.Lily walked into the shop, and she looked at the dusty floors and the big windows, and she said that this shop was pretty and that it would be prettier with cookies. She looked at Rook down on one knee, and she looked at me standing with the letter in my hand, and she said Daddy, are you asking Mara to marry

Chapter 32 The woman in the hall was holding a little boy's hand.He had Rook's dark hair. Rook's serious, too-old-for-his-face eyes. And Rook was just standing there in the doorway like someone had cut his strings.Lily pressed into my leg. The little boy saw her sneakers and lit up."Hi," he whispered.Lily peeked out. "Hi.""Mara," Rook said finally, voice scraped raw. "This is my sister."The woman gave me a tired, apologetic smile. "Sarah. Sorry. I should have called.""You did call," Rook said. "I didn't answer."He said it flat, not mean. Just true. Sarah winced."I saw Tara's post from the gala," she said quickly. "I recognized Lily. And Michael wouldn't stop asking about the girl with the heart shoes."Michael — the little boy — was now solemnly comparing his dinosaur sneakers to Lily's."Sneaker twins," Lily declared, and just like that, they were best friends.I touched Rook's back. "It's freezing out here. Come inside. We have pancakes. Burned ones, courtesy of Lily."Sar