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Staring into the open cupboard, then back at the haul I brought back from Tesco’s, I begin to get to work, grabbing all of the food with the tabs labelled ‘Maddox’.
I throw his favourite cereal into the freezer compartment, mix his M&M’s with some Skittles, and then grab the box of Oreos, knowing I’ll need to do them last.
As the microwave dings, I head over to it, feeling judgement coming from my audience.
“You could help,” I grumble as I begin dipping Brussels sprouts into the melted chocolate.
“I’m not getting involved,” Ben maintains as he grabs one of the last few chocolate strawberries and pops it in his mouth.
There would have been a lot more but Maddox decided to ruin my surprise. I bought chocolate covered strawberries and champagne. He left us four out of the twenty that were there.
As I finish up with the Brussels sprouts, I pop them in the fridge and begin to work on the Oreos. After scrapping out the yummy middle, I replace it with toothpaste. “He stole our dinner. And snacks. He did the unthinkable and thinks he will get away with it.”
“And we went out and got more,” he whispers when we hear noise from above. “I know better than to get between a Carter and their food.”
I sniff, glancing away from his reasonable answer. “What about your girlfriend, who you absolutely adore and worship? What about the fact she hadhersstolen?”
“You don’t even know it was Maddox,” he whisper yells. “Just put the Oreos down and come to bed. We’ve got to be up early, remember.”
“Look, if you need to sleep, then go to bed,” I growl, breaking the biscuit in my hand in the process. “But I am not leaving until the last one of these has been replaced with toothpaste. And it was Maddox. He was caught chocolate-handed. It was bad enough he stole my lunch. But to steal my snacks too... Nuh-uh.”
“Jesus Christ,” he mumbles as he grabs another knife. “If they do something to me in my sleep, I will retaliate regardless of the consequences or how you feel about it.”
My shoulders drop as I lean over and press a kiss to his lips. “I wouldn’t expect anything less.”
As he takes another Oreo, he states, “I still think we should just go to bed. He isn’t worth it.”
“Ben, he took everything I had planned for us tonight. The chocolate strawberries? I planned to have them whilst we soaked in that big tub. The whipped cream? I planned to let you lick it off me or vice versa. I never got that far ahead. And the tubs of snacks? I had planned to have thoseafter we had wild, wild sex.”
“Pass me that goddamn toothpaste,” he growls. “And go and put the shaving cream in the whipped cream he bought.”
I grin as I grab the last packet and hand it to him. I head over to my bag of goodies and pull out the shaving cream. I didn’t know what I was going to do with it when I bought it, but this is probably better than anything I could have come up with.
Once I’m done, I place it back in the fridge and marvel over my handiwork. He will never see this coming. Not when it’s me. If he had messed with Hayden’s food or his brother’s, he would be wary about his own.
I turn back to the breakfast bar and help put the Oreos back in their packets. Once we’re done, we’ll be heading up to bed. I’m kind of gutted we can’t just sit in front of the fire and stay up all night.
The lodge is beautiful and bigger than the pictures let on. Hayden, Amelia, and I tagged the main rooms with en-suites since we were part of a couple. Madison, Hope and Ciara took the biggest room, as the bed was massive. The three could have bagged the two adjoining rooms, but they didn’t want to leave one of them alone. Liam and Mark are bunking in the double room, since the last two rooms are for Landon and Paisley, then Charlotte and Drew.
The main floor has a huge living room, a cinema room, kitchen, laundry room, and a downstairs toilet. Down from us is a games room, gym, and a sauna.
Out on the deck is a seating area and a huge hot tub, which the others took advantage of whilst we went to visit Sabrina.
I can’t wait to go exploring as we’re surrounded by beautiful scenery. Whilst the others are going canoeing tomorrow, we are going to set. Much to Hayden’s dismay because she’s always wanted to see how it all works.
“What is that?” Ben asks, gesturing to the little device I pull out of my bag.
I arch a brow. “I’m no amateur, Mr Donovan. This little nifty device is to reseal the packets. He will never know they were opened until he bites into them.”
He tags me around the waist, pulling me between his legs where he’s sat on the counter. “How did I not know how devious you are?”
I grin. “Does it turn you on?”
“It scares me a little,” he admits, but the corners of his lips tug up into a grin.
I wrap my arms around his neck. “Good. You now know never to get between me and my food.”
He kisses the corner of my mouth. “Now, is there anything more you need to do or can I take you to bed now?”
