So I had Scott back. He was as attentive and considerate just as he had been when we first met.
This was the Scott I had fallen in love with and married.
It's funny the way life takes a sharp turn sometimes and the treasure you thought you wanted turns out to be not so shiny on closer examination.
I had won Scott back but it was an empty prize. The rose-coloured lenses had finally come off and Scott, stripped of his magic, was not what I wanted.
You see something strange and wonderful had happened. All those chats over coffee and cake had created a friendship between Honey and me such as I had never experienced before.
She loved my cooking, she loved my jokes and, best of all, she loved me.
Yes, we had fallen spectacularly, wonderfully, amazingly in love.
Honey sold her mansion and we moved in to a modest little house near Poppy. She is starting to lose the weight she gained because I am now exploring the low-calorie recipes in my cookbooks. It was her idea, not mine, because I adore her whatever size she is.
We have plans too, to purchase the up-market restaurant where I once applied for work. The owner is talking of retiring and the price he is asking is well within our means. I will do the cooking and Honey will manage the administration.
Honey is still working on her book writing but now she is focussing on a cookbook. I can supply and edit the recipes and she has suggested using photographs of herself shedding the poundage as proof of their efficacy. Honey says she knows a lot about the publishing world and slimming cookbooks are literally selling like hot cakes.
Luc has also told me that the secret squirrel stuff he has been working on at the lab is ready for testing. He said, without giving too much away, that it involves same sex conception. He asked Honey and me if we are interested in being guinea pigs in the trials. He said the worst that can happen is I won't get pregnant and might turn green. I think he was joking on the green bit.
So my life is very happy these days. There was only one more thing that could make it complete:
Finally I have started putting on weight.
