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“How can you—” I squeezed my eyes shut. “This is not the conversation I came here to have.”
“I know, but you won’t let me say how I really feel, so you’ve left me no choice.” He kissed down my forearm until it rested on his shoulder and his lips had reached my neck. “I would take a bullet for you. Jump in front of a moving car for you. Walk through fire for you. All without a second thought.”
“Stop.” I turned my face into his. “Whatever I am to you, the one thing I am not is equal to the value of your life.”
“I disagree.”
“Then we agree to disagree, because I would be very upset if you did any of those preposterous things.” I kissed his cheek. “But I get it. You’re head over heels for me, so calm down, Casanova.”
He laughed against my neck, and my skin tingled with each rumbling chuckle. “About time. Now, shall we order dinner and talk? That’s what you came here for, after all?”
“I assume you want to order food because you have nothing in your kitchen.”
“An accurate assumption,” he confirmed. “So, what do you want to eat?”
“Korean food.”
He stepped back and handed me his phone. “I know nothing about Korean food, so here. You’re in control tonight.”
I took his phone and eyed him. “Just for the food, or for everything else?”
“Don’t get cocky.”
“I thought that was why I was here.”
“Chloe.” He said my name in such a low tone that it was almost growly, and the dark glint in his eye told me not to push it anymore.
I laughed and dropped back onto his sofa. “All right, all right. How are you with spice?”
“Good. Go wild. Order whatever you want.” He sat next to me and peered over at what I was doing.
That was a problem.
I was going to take his words at face value.
I selected my favourite restaurant and scrolled the menu. I ordered mostly my usual things but added a few I usually only got as a treat, including a couple of bottles of soju, and then handed Theo back his phone. “Pay, please.”
“Is this my future?” he asked, taking it and inputting his card details.
“What, ordering food every night? No. I’d be cooking if you had food in your fridge.”
“You’d be cooking if we were at your place. I bet you already went shopping, didn’t you?”
“Of course. It was the first thing I did on Sunday morning. My best friend stocked the essentials for me on Saturday, so I didn’t have to worry.” I smiled. “And you can’t come to mine. I told you that. I live in the company apartment building, and it would be weird if anyone was to see you.”
He sighed, resting his head on my shoulder. “I know. You should move out.”
“Alternatively, you should go shopping.”
“I can’t. It makes me think of you.”
“You’re just a big baby, aren’t you?” I stroked his hair, smiling.
Theo wrapped his arms around me, scooting me closer to him. Somehow, I ended up sitting between his legs with mine resting over one of his thighs. He had his fingers linked at my hip, and I was perfectly nestled against his body.
“That’s better,” he muttered.
“What’s this for?”
