Damaged (South Side Boys Book 1) by Alexis Winter

Author:Alexis Winter [Winter, Alexis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-08-18T16:00:00+00:00

25

Annabelle

“What smells so good in here?”

I can’t help but smile as I hear Jaxson coming in the door.

If you would have told me a few months ago that I’d be in Jaxson’s apartment, cooking him dinner because he’s my boyfriend, I would have told you to go have yourself checked out.

But here I am—in his kitchen, using the appliances I’m pretty sure he’s never touched. This whole thing feels very domestic. Normal.

He comes behind me, circles his strong arms around my waist, and places a kiss on his favorite spot on my shoulder. It’s downright cliché, but I don’t care.

I kind of love it.

Correction: I absolutely love it.

And I’m pretty sure I absolutely love him.

I turn around so I can slip my hands around his waist. We see each other nearly every day, but it doesn’t make me miss him any less when we’re at work.

“How was your day?” His shoulders seem tense, almost like how he stood before we got together. While he hasn’t reverted to the shut-off, moody version of Jaxson since we’ve been together, something feels different tonight. Recently, he’s been more relaxed, and it shows in the way he holds his body, but at this moment, he’s a little more on edge.

“Fine.”

It doesn’t matter the gender. “Fine” never means fine.

“Do you want to talk about it?”

Instead of answering me, he nuzzles his nose into my hair, trying to distract me, and maybe himself, from this conversation. It’s almost working.

“Baby, you keep doing that and dinner is going to be ruined,” I tease.

“Don’t care,” he mumbles into my neck as he continues to place kisses along my shoulder.

“Well, I do. This is the first time I’ve cooked for you, and I don’t want a horror story that we’ll tell for years about how I burned the pork chops,” I say as I wriggle out of his hold. He’s all but pouting when I free myself. The puppy-dog look on this strong, hot-as-sin man is just too much to handle.

“You, sir, are ridiculous. Dinner will be ready in 20 minutes. And don’t think I’m going to let go of whatever is bugging you.”

His pouting continues as he leaves the kitchen, placing one more kiss on my cheek before heading to take a shower.

I stopped our nuzzling session just in time, because the pork chops are cooked to perfection. The recipe was one of my mom’s that she used to make all the time. She said it was my dad’s favorite and that it was the first meal she made him. He always joked that he only married her for the pork chops.

When I said I wanted to cook him dinner, I knew this was what I wanted to make. It made me feel like my mom was closer to me. I so wish I could call her right now to tell her all about the guy who’s stealing my heart.

“So, now I ask you, what’s going through that head of yours?” I didn’t even hear Jaxson come back into the kitchen.

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