Free Betrayed: Keeping her in the Dark Vol. 3 by By: Leslie Sansom

of underwear. I was looking at purses when I ran into Jane. 
    “Norah, Oh my God! I haven’t seen you in forever! How are you?” We hugged. 
    “I’m good. I’m really good. I’m probably a little too good. I just spent way too much money on myself to celebrate how great I am. I hope Liam doesn’t get upset.” 
    “Oh girl, you know you can’t upset Liam. He lets you do whatever you want.” We both laughed. 
    “How are things with you and Will?” I asked. 
    “Oh they’re good. We are trying new things and making big changes. Nothing like getting married but still big things. I’ll fill you in another time.” She waved me off the subject. 
    “Liam and I should have you guys over for dinner soon. You guys are our only friends and we never see you. You 2 stay so busy all the time.” Liam had told me that Will and Jane had been ‘doing a lot of partying’. He didn’t elaborate about what ‘partying’ meant, and I never asked.
    “How is Thursday night? 7 o’clock?” 
    “That sounds great! We will be there.” We air kissed each other and she walked away. The thought of being near Will still made me nervous, not Nick Meyers nervous, but uneasy. Still he and Liam had seemed to have made up so I guess I needed to get over it too. He only assaulted me because he wanted Jane back. He didn’t know it at the time but he loved her. In his own way he loved her. I knew how irrational Liam could be when he was upset over something to do with me. 
    I went home and made dinner. I made Spanish chicken with cauliflower, potatoes and carrots. I marinated some mushrooms and put them on the indoor grill and made a spinach salad with avocado and goat cheese. 
    Rosa was still helping me with my cooking and I was finding recipes and trying them on my own too. Liam seemed to like my cooking and I liked cooking for him so it worked out. 
    Whenever I had the opportunity to cook dinner, I gave Rosa the night off and did it myself. I had never been used to having people cook and clean for me. Not to mention I cared about Rosa and Gerald like my in laws. They were the closest things to parents that Liam had in his life now. I didn’t like the idea of them waiting on us, but I didn’t want them to lose their jobs either. So I adjusted. 
    “Something smells wonderful! What are you doing in here, you sexy woman?” I shook my butt at him when he wrapped his arms around my waist. 
    “I’m sorry, I thought Rosa was doing the cooking tonight,” then he kissed my neck. 
    “Very funny smartass.” 
    “Why are you cooking, my darling? I pay people to do that.” 
    “I like it. And you like it too.” 
    “Maybe I should reduce my kitchen staff, since I don’t seem to need them.” 
    “Ah, no you won’t.”
    “I won’t? Well it seems to me I pay them a lot of money to not do a lot of work?” he smirked at me.
    “You wouldn’t get rid of Rosa or Gerald if they never cooked or cleaned anything again and you know it!” I poked him in the chest.
    “You’re right, I wouldn’t.” Liam would never get rid of Rosa or anyone in her family. I was sure I could start cooking every night and he would be completely fine with her and Gerald living in the guest house and him paying them to do nothing. 
    He always said he never got close to people. He always told me since both of his parent’s deaths he never wanted to get close to anyone ever again. He never wanted a family of his own that he could lose all over again. But that wasn’t true. He might think he had managed to keep people at arm’s length until he met me, but it wasn’t true. He loved Gerald like a father and looked to Rosa for motherly advice.
    He helped me put dinner on the table and get everything else ready. When we sat down to start eating I told him about my day. 
    “I did a little shopping today.”
    “I saw the twenty five bags by the door,” he said as took a bite of the chicken. “This is delicious.” 
    “It’s not twenty five,”