Max (Alpha Heroes Book 2) by Anna del Mar

Author:Anna del Mar [del Mar, Anna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ashton Publishing Group
Published: 2020-03-09T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Max

I flipped the omelet and let it sit in the pan for a few more minutes while I poured the coffee in the only two mugs I owned. I looked around. Everything was ready.

For the first time in a long while, my kitchen showed signs of life. Vegetable peels were piled in the sink along with cracked eggshells. The scent of made-from-scratch biscuits wafted through my place and a glow as warm as my oven filled my chest.

I loved cooking. Recollections of a warm kitchen filled with enticing aromas counted as the only good memories I had from my childhood. Few things made me happier than whipping up a good meal and stuffing the people I cared about to the gills.

The old, stained cookbook currently sprawled on the counter was my one precious possession. I’d once dived back into a burning barrack to save the yellowed pages from the flames.

But in the last couple of years, I’d cooked very little. I’d kept away from the state-of-the-art kitchen downstairs, except for Sundays, when my brothers insisted I fix a meal for all of us.

I hadn’t really understood why I’d given up my favorite things. But as I stuffed a handful of white, pink and blue columbines I’d picked from the garden into the tiny vase I’d borrowed from Jax and Emme, I began to get a clue.

Since Leo’s death, I’d excised anything that gave me pleasure out of my life with surgical precision. Cooking? Out. Reading? Nope. Sex? Negative.

I’d denied myself anything I might remotely enjoy, limiting my pursuits to work, fitness, and the adrenaline pumping activities that got me closer to The End.

But that wasn’t the case anymore.

What had changed?

Lexi.

Her arrival marked my turning point. She’d somehow managed to sneak up on me and soak my desiccated self in her well, restoring me to some semblance of my former self.

For the last few days, I’d been spending most of my time with Lexi. With the photo shoot done, I’d shifted my focus. I worked on my cyber hunt every night after Lexi went to sleep, but my days were devoted to giving her the precious vacation she craved.

The way I saw it, Lexi’s camper had been destroyed because of me and I owed her. So, I took it upon myself to show her everything there was to do in and around Res, where it was safe.

Our days usually started with a long workout. Lexi was religious about her two-and-a-half-hour routine and I loved working out with her. Her perfect little ass was the ideal carrot for this mule.

After that, we usually went for a motorcycle ride. Since she started squealing at fifteen miles an hour, I kept it tame. Who the hell needed the rush when Lexi’s arms were wrapped around my waist?

I threw in a new activity each day. Hiking, biking, rock climbing, rafting, whatever she wanted to try. The nights we spent in my bed, reinventing the concept of sex.

Lexi had thrived in our explorations—in and out of bed.

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