Awakened by the CEO's Kiss by Therese Beharrie

Author:Therese Beharrie
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2021-05-06T01:34:41+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

‘OH!’ BROOKE EXCLAIMED as soon as she said the words. ‘That was much more personal than I intended on getting.’

‘You think?’

At the dry note in Tyler’s voice, she winced. She placed the final slice of French toast on a plate and turned to face him. His expression didn’t look upset, more pensive.

She slid the plate over to him. ‘Truce?’

His gaze flickered down. ‘You’re offering me an entire plate of French toast to make up for saying something that might be true?’

‘Only if it works,’ she replied. She waited a beat. ‘Might be true, huh?’

She couldn’t describe the look he gave her as a glare, but it wasn’t entirely a positive one.

She pushed the plate closer to him.

He narrowed his eyes, but she could see the faintest twitch at his lips.

‘You can’t bribe me with food.’

‘I’m not bribing you,’ she said truthfully. ‘I’m comforting you.’

‘I don’t need to be comforted.’

‘Well, in that case...’

She reached out to take the plate back, but he snatched it up into the air. It was so unexpected that she gave a startled laugh, before lifting her hands in surrender.

‘Fair is fair.’

Seconds later he set the plate down next to the eggs and bacon he’d already fried. She’d meant it when she’d told him he was good in the kitchen. Much more efficient than she was. But she had managed to put the coffee on before he’d come out of the shower, and...

Her brain paused for a moment as she remembered walking into the spare room when she’d thought he was in the shower. She’d only seen him for a few seconds, but it had been enough to make an impact. She knew he worked out, knew he was built, but the man had muscles in places she wasn’t sure should have muscles.

She had never found that kind of build attractive before—she preferred tall and lean—but apparently she’d been waiting for Tyler.

And really, that should make her ashamed of her superficiality. Oddly enough, she didn’t feel bad at all.

‘Coffee?’ she asked, hoping he wouldn’t somehow pick up on the lust in her voice.

‘It’s too hot for that.’

She turned. ‘Too hot for coffee? A life-giving liquid?’

He smirked. For some reason it made her think about how he looked in his underwear again. She shoved the thought out of her mind.

‘I know it’s unbelievable. Do you have something colder? Juice?’

‘Of course.’

She got the juice out, poured him some, then suggested they eat outside. After they’d put all the food on the table and settled in under the veranda, silence stretched over them. It was the kind of silence that came after a hard day of work: quiet, content, comfortable. Almost as peaceful as their dogs laying beneath one of the trees in the garden, exhausted from their morning activities.

She hadn’t thought that, after what had happened between them that morning, they’d be able to share something like this. It made her think of the inevitability between them, and tension rolled in her stomach.

It was so unknown, all of this, and she couldn’t comprehend it.

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