Cook's Choice: A Bad Boy Protector Romance (Lost Boys Book 4) by Janice M. Whiteaker

Author:Janice M. Whiteaker [Whiteaker, Janice M.]
Language: eng
Format: azw3, epub
Publisher: Janice M. Whiteaker
Published: 2020-05-28T16:00:00+00:00

12

LEVI STARES UP at me from where he’s sprawled across the patio.

I should help him up.

But he can’t keep running from me if he’s on his butt, so I’m going to just leave him there. “You are a kind man. You’re patient, and you’re driven and you’re—”

I straighten. “Well, you’re really easy to look at.”

He doesn’t move. Just keeps staring.

Like I’ve lost my mind.

But I haven’t. I’ve only begun to find it. To claim it as my own.

To use how I want. To believe what I know to be true and real.

And I know Levi is not an asshole.

He’s just scared.

Which is good, because so am I.

“Dinner’s—” Jill pokes her head out the door. “Levi, honey. Get up off the dirty ground and come wash your hands. It’s time to eat.” She smiles at me. “Carly, why don’t you get him up and take him to get him cleaned up?”

“I can do that.” I smile back at Jill.

Levi’s right. She’s not nice.

Calling Jill nice is doing her a disservice.

She is warm, and kind, and sweet, and caring. Probably a whole lot more, but I’ve only known her an hour.

I turn to the well-built biker still lying on the ground at my feet. “Come on, big boy.” I reach down and grab his hands and lean back, trying to use my body weight to get him up. “You’re heavy. Why are you so heavy?” He’s not much taller than I am. I figured he’d be easy to get up.

“You don’t have to help me up, Pinky.” He tries to pull his hands from mine. “I can get up all by myself.”

“Of course you can get up by yourself, but I want to help you.” I pull him again, squeezing his hands harder.

I’m getting his butt up off the concrete if it kills me. I drop lower to the ground, trying to get more leverage. He still doesn’t budge. “Stop making it difficult.”

Levi sighs. “You’re the most stubborn woman I’ve ever met.” Finally his body comes up off the ground, hands gripping mine tight as he comes up.

I start to fall back but Levi pulls me up with him, making sure I don’t end up in the same spot he was in. “Come on, Pinky. Let’s go inside before Jill gets snippy.” He wraps one arm around my shoulders. It’s heavy and warm.

I lean into him. “Thank you for bringing me here.”

Levi might not realize how sweet and considerate he is, but that doesn’t change the facts.

He might be the kindest man I’ve ever met.

“Why do you always act so different than you are?”

His hand stalls on the handle to the sliding glass door. “Lots of reasons.”

“Oh.” I want to ask more, but Jill is staring at us from her spot at the kitchen island. “She likes having company for dinner, doesn’t she?”

“She likes taking care of the people she cares about.” Levi opens the door and lets me go in first, his arm dropping from my shoulders as we move inside.

I liked having his arm around me.

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