Home Skillet (Culinary Kings Book 1) by Sandra Damien & Cate Ashwood

Author:Sandra Damien & Cate Ashwood [Damien, Sandra]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kydala Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2018-05-30T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Ben

It wasn’t even 10:00 a.m. on my first day off, and all I wanted to do was sink down onto my couch and play Goldeneye on the N64 all day. I never wanted to see the inside of that damn restaurant again, never wanted to lay eyes on another deep fryer. It wasn’t often I had days like this, but holy shit, when I did, they were brutal.

Now I had two days away from that place. I wanted to spend every minute decompressing and forgetting how shitty I felt about working there.

I lifted my arm and sniffed my pit, my stomach roiling at the scent. It was sweat and grime mixed in with that gnarly used-oil smell I came home with way too fucking often. The night before, I’d come home and collapsed into my bed, too tired to fathom doing anything but sleep, but I seriously needed to practice some personal hygiene.

“That bad?” Jimmy asked.

“Yup. You’re probably no bed of roses yourself.” Normally, I would have bothered to at least pretend to be teasing, but I wasn’t in the mood.

He got up from where he was sitting and grabbed my hands, pulling me to my feet. That simple touch instantly soothed me, like just the brief contact was enough to erase every ounce of stress.

“You got plans for today?” I asked. Things had been so busy, Jimmy and I hadn’t really had a minute to connect.

“Nah. I was gonna chill for a bit.”

“Lemme rinse off and then we can hit the store. We can grab some cheap stuff and throw something together that isn’t doused in barbeque sauce.” Minutes before, I’d been making plans to never leave the house again, but the thought of spending some time with Jimmy, doing what we loved best, had happiness radiating from my chest.

He grinned at me, his smile a little lopsided. “What if we just ordered in and stayed here, basking in our stench?”

I laughed and shook my head. “Come on. You’d really rather eat takeout? I know you wouldn’t. It’s been how long since you’ve had a chance to cook something that didn’t arrive in the kitchen frozen in a plastic bag?”

“You make a good point.”

“Come on. It’ll be fun. We can stop at Blockbuster on the way back to rent an Adam Sandler movie.”

“Make it Starship Troopers and we have a deal.”

“Twist my arm with Casper Van Dien.” I grinned. “Fine.”

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