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“Good thing all you’ll be doing is listening.” He smiled. Good try, but I’m not giving in no matter how much my cock is aching.
Shanda stopped eating and said, “Did you want to talk now and we eat later?”
“I can do both, how about you?” he asked. She nodded. “Okay, eat and I’ll tell you what I came up with regarding the manager.” She practically choked and he asked, “Are you okay?”
“I’m not sure I should tell you,” she said.
He raised a brow and said, “You can’t say something like that and then stop. Did you hire someone?”
She giggled. “Nope. Let’s put it this way, my ad for a manager fit perfectly with the name of the shop.”
“You didn’t, did you?” he asked, knowing damn well the calls she was going to get, weren’t ones she wanted. Hell, I don’t want them calling either.
“I caught the mistake before sending it to be listed in the classifieds. That’s what I get for trying to write something professional at two in the morning.”
“I’m not sure what shocks me more: that you wrote it, or that you were using a classified ad in a newspaper.”
“You’re laughing at me again. Don’t even pretend that you’re not,” she warned.
“I don’t even have a smirk on my face,” he said.
“I can tell from your eyes. They almost twinkle when you’re teasing me,” she said.
Twinkle? Hell no they don’t.“Baby, there is nothing on me that shines or twinkles.”
“If you say so,” she said. In a very low voice, she muttered, “They so twinkle.”
“Back to the manager’s position. If you don’t mind, I’d like to prepare the official documents you’ll need for both the interview process, and when you hire him.”
“Or her,” she stated.
Kenneth smiled. “I stand corrected. I’d also like to be here when you do interview them. There will be questions I have which might help eliminate people who are only good at selling themselves and not your product.”
“Now you’re sounding like the ad I wrote,” she laughed.
“Oh boy. Maybe tonight is not a good business night,” he said.
“That’s fine with me. Why don’t you tell me what else you wanted to talk about?”
He sighed. “Sure you don’t want to put that off too?” She shook her head and then took another bite of Lo Mein. “Us. I’d like to talk about us.”
Shanda stopped chewing and looked at him as though she wasn’t sure she’d heard right. Covering her mouth with her hand, she asked, “Us?”
“Yes. I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about us lately. And before you panic, I don’t know where this, what you and I have, is going. All I know is I really like you. This might sound very odd, coming from me, but here it goes. I’ve been with a lot of women, but nothing serious.”
“Are you sure this is what you want to tell me? Because I don’t want to hear about your other lovers,” she said firmly.
“I didn’t mean it to come out that way. What I was trying to say is, I don’t normally date,” Kenneth explained.
She crossed her arms. “Not sounding much better. I think we should go back to discussing Home Blown.”
“Trust me, it gets better.”
“I hope so, because if not, I’m going to have indigestion, and it won’t be from the food,” she warned.
“Let me start over. Shanda, you’re like no other woman I’ve met. I’m thirty and have never wanted to be in a monogamous relationship before. That has changed,” he said.
“Kenneth, are you asking me to be your girlfriend?” Her tone was playful and teasing.
