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Doc looked surprised that he knew how to cook, if her widened eyes and lifted brows told him anything.
“What?”
“You grocery shop and you cook?”
Rex stopped his cart and turned his body, so he was facing her. “I’m a single forty-one-year-old man with a grown daughter. It was either shop and cook or starve. I happen to like to eat, so I learned.”
Her surprise turned back to amusement. “You may not know it, but your sex-quotient just went up, Fido.”
“Does that mean you’re going to come over for dinner?”
“It means I’ll consider it.”
“Okay. Well, let’s do this.” He pulled his wallet out of his back pocket and retrieved a business card. Handing it to her, he said, “This is my personal cell. Text me your no-go foods and what evening you’re free. I’ll respond with my address and a time, then I’ll dazzle you with my cooking skills and my charming personality.”
“You’re awfully confident,” she replied, but she took the card and slid it in her pocket.
As they made their way to the dairy section, Rex noticed her eyeing his cart. “My daughter came home for a visit and brought three of her friends with her. So, here I am, doing a grocery run to feed them. They are all nineteen, two of them young men, so they eat a lot.”
“But I bet your daughter loves the fact that you’re willing to take in her and her friends and feed them. Not all parents would be cool with that.”
Rex shrugged and grabbed two dozen eggs. As he set them in the cart, he replied, “If they’re at my house, I know what they are doing. If buying them food is the cost for my peace of mind, I’m cool with that.”
The smile she gave him hit him in the gut and made his wolf stand up and take notice. She kept her eyes on him as she reached down and grabbed her own dozen eggs. Holding them up, she said, “That’s egg-cellent.”
Rex chuckled and grabbed the three kinds of cheese he needed – the supersized bag of shredded Colby-jack, two packages of sliced Colby-jack, and a block of Pepperjack. As he dropped them in his cart, he uttered, “That’s so cheesy.”
The belly laugh that came from her was the cutest thing he’d ever heard. Fuck… he was in trouble. His wolf let out a whine and swished his tail, letting Rex know he agreed with that assessment.
While she laughed and grabbed what she needed, he grabbed sour cream and milk. Together, they moved to the next aisle of frozen items.
As he opened one door of the freezer and grabbed the ice cream the girls had requested, she said, “You scream. I scream. We all scream for ice cream.”
Rex set the pints down in the cart and raised an eyebrow at her. “You give me the sign. You and I will be screaming, but it won’t be over ice cream.”
As she stared at him with her mouth open, he pushed his cart down the aisle and around to the next one. He was grabbing a variety of cereal when she joined him. He bit his lip to stop himself from laughing at her expression as he grabbed a bottle of syrup.
She reached up and grabbed a box of bran cereal, eyeing the syrup in his hand. “That’s awfully saucy of you.”
Chuckling, he followed her to the ethnic foods aisle. He grabbed two cans of refried beans, a package of soft flour tortilla shells, taco seasoning, salsa, and two jars of taco sauce. “Now,thisis saucy.”
She held up a bag of dried black beans. “Bean there, done that.”
They were both laughing as they moved to the canned foods and pasta aisle. He grabbed mushrooms and lasagna noodles, while she loaded her cart with different kinds of pasta.
“You can make lasagna?”
He shrugged. “Yes, but this is for taco lasagna. Nevaeh, my daughter, loves it. She requests it every time she’s in town.”
“Taco lasagna?”
“Yes. If you like American tacos, you’d like taco lasagna.”
“My brain is having trouble computing it.”
He smiled at her. “I’ll prove it. Come over for dinner, and I’ll make it.”
“You’d eat it twice in a week?”
