Summary| Belle’s husband died years ago, as did Gold’s wife. The long years spent alone have made their houses empty and their nights haunted – but everything changes when Belle approaches Gold with a strange proposal.
A/N: Oh, hello, I’m back! Time to return to this lovely story 🙂
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“You’re an amazing cook, Lachlan.”
“I am,” he said, no humility.
He’d done his very best to impress her with a mushroom risotto dish he was fond of, one that required beef stock and thyme and constant stirring. It allowed him to stand behind her and press his chest to her back while he directed the wooden spoon in her hands. If his hips found themselves connecting to her rear with each gentle motion of their stirs, well. He could blame it on the narrow space between his kitchen island and stove top.
They hadn’t bothered making their way to the dining room, just kept things informal by plating and dining right there in the kitchen. Standing at the island and leaning over their dishes together and blinking up at one another between bites of risotto, sips of wine.
“Wonderful,” she said, for what must have been the hundredth time as they finished their meal. She’d been overcomplimenting his efforts all evening. “Nothing came from a box or can or package or anything.”
He blinked, cocked a smile. “What kind of meals have you been eating?”
The blue-eyed rabbi in our village at Samotschin used to talk to me as though I were a grown person, even when I was just a boy. We must believe in God, he told me, because if we don’t we will have to believe in man, and then we will only be disappointed.
A Canadian scientist who became only the third woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics said her personal triumph doubles as a sign of progress for her male-dominated industry.
Donna Strickland, associate professor at Ontario’s University of Waterloo, was honoured on Tuesday for being half of the team to discover Chirped Pulse Amplification, a technique that underpins today’s short-pulse, high-intensity lasers.
The 59-year-old Guelph, Ont., native made the discovery while completing her PhD at the University of Rochester in New York and will share half of the US$1.01-million prize with her doctoral adviser, French physicist Gerard Mourou. The other half of the prize will go to Arthur Ashkin of the United States, who was the third winner of the award.
Strickland’s victory not only cemented her own place in Nobel history, but ended a 55-year-long drought for female physicists being recognized by the prize committee. She joins the ranks of Marie Curie, the first woman to claim the honour in 1903, and 1963 winner Maria Goeppert-Mayer.
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