The Marshal's Prize (Harlequin American Romance) by Winters Rebecca

Author:Winters, Rebecca [Winters, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin Enterprises
Published: 2012-04-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“I can smell pizza,” Heidi said as they walked into the kitchen. She was too happy to see Mitch to focus on food, but she figured he was starving.

“Before you try it, I want you to taste the dessert in this sack.” She turned around, smiling up at the most appealing man she’d ever met. “Close your eyes first and keep them closed until I tell you to open them.”

Mitch’s mysterious behavior had aroused her curiosity. “What’s this? Dessert before dinner? I don’t do well on sugar before I eat.”

“Neither do I, but I’m asking you to make an exception this once. Go on. Just one bite,” he urged in a solemn tone.

Heidi decided she’d better close her eyes, sensing he wasn’t just playing with her. He put something right against her lips. It was sweet all right. “Why did you bring me donuts?”

“Will you please stop asking questions and obey me?”

“Obey you?” She laughed “That sounds serious. All right. Because you asked me so nicely, I’ll do it.” She bit into it and chewed it before swallowing. “Mitch, I could have brought donuts home from our No. 2 store if you’d asked me. You’re a tease, you know that?”

He didn’t laugh back. “There’s no question in your mind this is a Bauer donut?”

“None.” She kept smiling. “If you’re trying to trick me, it won’t work. I’ve probably eaten hundreds of them in my lifetime and know what our donuts taste like.” He was standing so close she could feel his warmth. A couple of inches more and she’d find his mouth. More than anything she wanted to taste it. She kept waiting for him to kiss her. “Do you still want me to keep my eyes closed?” The suspense was killing her.

“No. You can open them.”

Something was wrong. Maybe he hadn’t wanted to kiss her, after all. She felt like a fool and did his bidding.

“This is what you bit into.”

He held up the donut she’d just taken a bite out of, but her head was still reeling from errant thoughts that had nothing to do with donuts and everything to do with taking a delicious bite out of him. Or him out of her, whichever came first.

Hadn’t he wanted to kiss her? It was all she’d been able to think about. In her confusion she blinked. “I don’t understand.”

“Have you ever seen a Bauer donut that looked like this?”

He reached into the sack and pulled out another one, holding both up. They were identical. Forcing herself to concentrate, she noticed they were larger than a normal-size donut, and they had a smaller hole at the center.

She frowned. “I didn’t know we were trying out a new nozzle. The idea hasn’t come up in our board meetings. Whoever has been experimenting is going to be in trouble for this. Which one of our outlets sold this to you?”

“This is where the donuts came from.

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