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“Kaden’s sister. Yep. Like it or not, that’s a label I’ll never outgrow. Some days I wish I could.” She pushed her plate away, her appetite gone. Did being Kaden’s sister mean something bad? It sure sounded that way.
Luc’s eyes never left her. “Don’t look so down, sweets. I promised you a treat after dinner. And I always make good on my promises.” As if he was matching her movements, Luc pushed his plate away, adding a sly grin. “I’m done with dinner. How about you?”
“Luc, you don’t have to. Dinner was the deal, and it was enough. It was delicious and just what I wanted.”
Luc put his hand up in protest. “Nope. I promised. Let’s get out of here and get something sweet, sweets.”
Getting out of Luc’s sports car, Kassie looked around and realized she was familiar with this place. The Pink Ribbon Cupcakery. It was on the same street as Ali’s Pet Salon. She could see the closed salon from here. Ali had even brought a box of cupcakes home once.
It was the cutest little cupcake shop. The motif was pink, like cotton-candy pink and white. Very candy inspired. The owner, a young woman with cotton-candy pink colored hair and a small diamond stud in her nose, was behind the counter.
Kassie had a hard time deciding between the cupcake with pink icing and the cupcake with white icing that claimed to be champagne flavored. After some deciding, she was drawn in by the color and chose the pink.
Luc easily chose a vanilla peanut butter cupcake with chocolate icing.
Sitting at the small, pale pink table, Luc nibbled at the icing around the edges of his cupcake. “You’re staring at me.”
“Oh, sorry. I just never heard of a peanut butter cupcake before.” She made a sour face.
“What’s wrong with a peanut butter cupcake? It’s actually vanilla batter flavored like peanut butter. You should try a piece.”
“No.” She shook her head more at the idea of sharing a bite of cupcake with him than at the flavor. She’d been known to try anything once.
“C’mon. Try it. Just a piece.”
His persuasiveness had her weak. Too weak to fight. Her eyes followed the chocolate-topped cupcake as he took a bite, leaving little cake crumbs on his lips until he swiped his tongue to clear them off. She was left speechless, and unable to look away.
“Here.” Luc pulled a chunk of cupcake off with his fingers and held it across the table for her.
She took a moment and looked at the cupcake in his fingers. It was too small for there to be any good way to take it out of his hand. It would just crumble.
“Just taste it.” Luc urged with a half grin. He moved the treat closer to her mouth.
It was a bad idea. Terrible idea. But she did it anyway. She ate the cake piece out of his hand. Before she could comprehend the sexual thoughts that quickly went through her mind after she took the sweet treat, he swiped his finger through the chocolate icing and put it up to her lips.
“You really need to try it with the icing.” Luc put the chocolate icing right to her mouth, placing it just close enough that a dab touched her lips, forcing her to open up if she wanted to lick it off. When she did that, his finger grazed her lips, depositing the chocolate icing on her tongue.
His deep eyes seemed darker than ever, and his smile devilish. She was afraid that her heart might beat out of her chest. She swirled her tongue around his icing-coated finger.
Remembering they were in the middle of a very innocent sweets shop, she quickly pulled away. But the wave of sexual tension remained as he popped his finger into his own mouth, sucking off the remaining icing.
Her breath caught in her throat, and a tingling sensation ran through her body. Holy shit. Kassie slid her chair back about an inch, just enough to give her room to breathe. Taking deep breaths, she stabilized her heart rate.
“Good, huh?” Luc commented, breaking through her thoughts.
“Yeah.” She had no idea. Her body was so busy focusing on him and his actions, her taste buds must’ve gone numb. Or at least the signal from her taste buds never reached her brain.
The grin never left his face as he watched her from across the little table. Luc took another bite of his cupcake, but his stare stayed on her. After finishing his bite, he reached to her cupcake and took a swipe of pink icing.
“How’s yours?” he asked, as he popped the icing into his mouth.
“Good,” she replied, even though she hadn’t tasted it yet. Moving her eyes from him was difficult, but focusing on her cupcake was a better choice, unless she planned on going home with him. The way her body was tingling in all the right places told her that things were intensifying quickly.
Kassie broke the bottom half of her cupcake off, and tossed it into her mouth.
“You eat the bottom first?”
“Always. I like the icing best, so I save it for last.”
