Lead Me Home by Vicki Lewis Thompson

Author:Vicki Lewis Thompson [Thompson, Vicki Lewis]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9781459233317
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2012-01-01T08:00:00+00:00

9

“HERE’S MY IDEA, now that I know I have you for the whole night.” Aurelia couldn’t believe her good fortune. She’d expected Matthew to say he had to leave in an hour or so. “Let’s do the menu-planning first and be done with it.”

“That’s a sensible idea.” He pulled her in tighter. “But I don’t feel like being sensible. I want to kiss you.” He lowered his head.

“No.” She wiggled out of his embrace. “I know what happens once you start kissing me.” She hurried over to a cupboard and pulled out a stack of cookbooks. “Here.” She shoved them at his chest. “Take these to the table.”

He laughed, but he accepted the cookbooks and laid his hat on the table. “Bossy little thing, aren’t you?”

“Wouldn’t you rather have this out of the way so we can concentrate on…each other?” She glanced deliberately at his crotch.

He drew in a sharp breath. “You do know how to win an argument. I’ve been thinking about that under-the-table maneuver all day.”

“Liar. You’ve been training Houdini most of the day.”

“When I wasn’t training Houdini I was thinking of it.” He sat down and flipped open the first cookbook. “When do I get my steak? It smells wonderful.”

“I’m keeping it warm in the oven and I’ll give it to you once we retire to my bedroom.”

He glanced up, his gaze hot. “That sounded almost as if you plan to feed it to me.”

“I might, at that.” She noticed the cookbook he was paging through. “Forget about that one for now. The second one in the stack has the recipe I was considering. It’s on page fifty-two.”

He put aside the first book and thumbed through the second until he came to the recipe. “Beef with carrots? Seriously?”

“You don’t think they’ll like it?”

“They’ll love it, but I can’t believe you’d pick something so…basic.”

“Reverse psychology.” She sat across the table from him. “It’s only beef and carrots with some spices, but I’m going to tell them it’s Boeuf avec carottes and stick in some sprigs of thyme to make it look more exotic. I want them to realize that just because something has a French name doesn’t mean they won’t like it.”

“Brilliant. So are we done? Can we put these away, now?”

“I want to make stuffed turnips for dinner.”

“Oh.” He shook his head. “I don’t think that will work.”

“It might, and I’m willing to take a chance. They’re getting Mary Lou’s chocolate chip cookies for lunch, and her chocolate pie for dinner, so I think it’s time to add something different, like stuffed turnips.”

“What are they stuffed with? Because if it’s goat cheese, I’ve heard about the goat cheese, and it’s not popular. The guys have a real problem with goat cheese, and I—”

“Matthew, Matthew.” She walked over and cupped his face in both hands. “Chill. It’ll be fine. There’s no goat cheese.”

He caught her hand and turned his head so he could place a lingering, erotic kiss on her palm. “Thank you.”

Just that one kiss, which didn’t even land on her mouth, and she was consumed with lust.

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