Orc Boyfriend: Sieger (special preview)

“She’s here!” Gemma waves from the porch. “Ms. Aubrey! Over here!”

I walk up to the gate and Gemma let’s me in. She’s wearing a very cute, pink gingham dress and yellow rain boots. “Welcome!” She runs up to me and gives me a big hug.

“Thank you for having me, this is a treat for me. I rarely get home cooked food.” Gemma takes hold of my hand and leads me around the corner to where a table is set. The table cloth matches her little dress and she has candles lit and the napkins folded into swans.

Sieger walks out, carrying a bowl full of what looks like garlic bread. “You made it. Thank you for coming.” His long hair is down and laying over his shoulder, I had never realized how long it was.

I smile at him. “Your house is gorgeous, it’s like walking up on a fairy tale.”

Sieger smiles at me and my heart starts flopping around like a landed trout. “Thank you,” his low voice kills the flopping trout. “It’s been a work of patience, let me tell you,” he chuckles. “Go ahead and sit down, I’ll bring out the rest of the food.”

“Can I show her my room real fast?” Gemma gasps.

Sieger chuckles and turns from the door. “If you’d like, but hurry or else the flies will eat you food, darling.”

“Come on!” She grabs my hand again and leads me into the house. We walk through the kitchen and then into a living room that looks straight out of a black and white movie. She then takes me into a hallway where her room is at the end.

Her walls are painted lavender and her curtains are bright pink. In one corner of the room she has a doll house as tall as I am. For a kid’s room it looks very neat and tidy and in order, but she has stacks of books lying everywhere.

“Papa made me this,” Gemma says as she opens up the doll house. From inside a small table folds out, the top of which is painted to look like a flower garden and pond. The top of the doll house is made of shelves where she has books and school supplies. The bottom half is full of rooms where I see small furniture and figures.

“He made this?” I gasp in awe.

“He’s really food with his hands,” Gemma says as she starts taking out some dolls.

I suppress my completely grown-up giggling and look at the toys Gemma shows me. 

“He really likes you, you know?” Gemma then whispers to me.

I glance down at her and narrow my eyes. “Oh?”

Gemma nods. “He says your really pretty. And he may say this dinner was all my idea, but he asked me if I thought you’d come and I said sure so he decided to put on this dinner so if you don’t like it don’t blame me.”