Straight To You: A Novella (Taking Chances Series Book 1) (17 page)

“I got it, thanks.” Melanie took the pot and poured some boiling water into the tea cups. After swirling the water around in each cup, she emptied it into the sink. She touched the cups to make sure they were warm, then filled them with tea. Lastly, she added a spoonful of evaporated milk to each cup and stirred the contents.

“How do you always know the right amount to add?” Billie peered into the tea cups curiously.

“Ba says it’s eighty percent tea and twenty percent evaporated milk,” Melanie answered. “I tend to go by the color. You want it lighter than chocolate, but darker than…”

Sam looked up from the plate of egg custards and wife cakes she was arranging. “Were you going to say honey?”

“Yes, honey!” Melanie bit her lower lip to stop a smile that was threatening to emerge. That was the comparison she should have been making, not the one that had popped into her head.
What is wrong with me? Why am I thinking about sandy brown hair?
She let out a sigh and reined in her thoughts.
It’s time to come back to reality. I need to focus on finding love in the next room, not at the grocery store.
“All set. Let’s take this out.”

“Get ready for Ma’s wrath,” Billie warned as she opened the door.

“Just nod and smile, girls,” Melanie replied with a sigh. “Just nod and smile.”

True to You
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Footnotes

¹
The Cantonese term for “older sister”.

Taking Chances Series

Straight to You

True to You

About the Author

Liwen Y. Ho works as a chauffeur and referee by day (also known as being a stay at home mom) and a writer by night. She enjoys writing about real-life matters, such as marriage, parenting, and faith because truth can be just as strange and entertaining as fiction. Her work has appeared in various online publications, including LiteraryMama.com and MomLifeToday.com, and she is a regular contributor at StartMarriageRight.com. She has a Masters degree in Marriage and Family Therapy from Western Seminary and loves makeovers of all kinds, especially those of the heart and mind. She lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her techie husband and their two children, and blogs about her adventures as a recovering perfectionist at www.2square2behip.com. This is her first, but hopefully not last, novella.

Table of Contents

• ONE
  
• TWO
  
• THREE
  
• FOUR
  
• FIVE
  
• SIX
  
• SEVEN
  
• EIGHT
  
• NINE
  
• TEN
  
• ELEVEN
  
• TWELVE
  
• THIRTEEN
  
• FOURTEEN
  
• FIFTEEN
  
• SIXTEEN
  
• SEVENTEEN
  
• Acknowledgements
  
• ONE
  
• Footnotes
  
• About the Author
  

Table of Contents

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

SIX

SEVEN

EIGHT

NINE

TEN

ELEVEN

TWELVE

THIRTEEN

FOURTEEN

FIFTEEN

SIXTEEN

SEVENTEEN

Acknowledgements

ONE

Footnotes

About the Author