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“I can do chicken or turkey. What do you feel like?”
I feel I should go home.
“Chicken,” I say.
I get up and pull on my underwear before I saunter to the kitchen nook and take a seat on one of the two bar stools by the counter. I watch him slice the chicken and grate cheese. He cuts strips of bell peppers and cucumber and a bunch of other vegetables and puts together a sauce. Every movement is executed with the easy confidence of a person who knows what he’s doing.
After a little bit, he slides a plate in front of me. We eat in silence, but it’s a comfortable one. Now that I think about it, all our silences are.
It’d be all innocent and friendly and normal.
If he didn’t keep checking me out all the time.
The looks he aims my way? Full of dirty thoughts. To the brim. His gaze is overflowing with them, and it’s terrifying because if there’s anything I want at all, it’s another taste. Not even a taste. I want a full meal. I want to fill up on Ryker James, and even that doesn’t feel like it would be enough.
Yup. Terrifying.
So I ignore it because that’s why God created warning signs—for idiots like me to dismiss them.
“If the hockey thing doesn’t pan out, you could totally do this for a living,” I muse after I’m done with my food, and I push the plate away.
“Cook lunch for you?” He leans back a bit and chomps down on a leftover slice of bell pepper.
“Start an online cooking show.”
“You overestimate my abilities in the kitchen. I can only manage the basics. I don’t think anybody would be interested in seeing me making lunch wraps and cooking rice.”
“Oh, you sweet summer child.” I shake my head. “It won’t matter. Nobody will care about what you cook, because you’ll be doing it naked. I can film it for you. Just say when.”
He starts to laugh. “I am not putting my bare dick anywhere near knives or fire.”
I consider that for a second before I purse my lips and nod. “Probably a good idea. I wouldn’t want you to chop off my favorite part of you.”
I leer at his lap suggestively while he pretends to scowl.
“I’ll have you know the rest of me is pretty great, too.”
“Is it?”
“Yup. There’s more to me than just an awesome dick.”
I let my gaze move up and down his body slowly before I shrug one shoulder. “Nah, I don’t see it.”
His lips twitch, but he tucks the smile away for now.
“Just for that? I won’t put out tonight,” he says.
“It’s cute that you think that.”
He raises a brow. “You don’t think I can, do you?”
“Can what?” I ask innocently.
“Resist you,” he says. He tilts his head to the side as he studies me. “You think I’ll break first.”
“No.” I lean toward him, lips inches away from his. “I know you’ll break first.”
His eyes move lower and get caught on my mouth.
