Eden snorts. “Why?”
“To make you laugh, of course.”
If Eden keeps smiling like this, her cheeks are going to start to ache. “How do you like your eggs?” she asks.
“However you like them.”
“I don’t like eggs.”
“Oof,” he mumbles, pulling away. “That might be a deal breaker for me.”
Eden rolls her eyes, but there isn’t any heat behind it. “Oh, fuck off.”
“How can you not like eggs?”
“I don’tnotlike eggs. They’re just not my favorite. I’d prefer not to eat them by themselves. Too eggy.”
He crinkles his nose. “How would you describe this dish, chef? Oh, ‘too eggy.’”
Eden kills the heat on the stove and turns, playfully swatting at his chest. “This is bullying at the workplace,” she teases, smiling wide.
“We’re not at the workplace.”
“So it’s just bullying, then?”
“Face it, sweetheart. You like it when I’m a little mean.”
“Maybe.”
He places a hand on either side of her hips and presses her up against the edge of the kitchen counter. “Maybe?”
“I like it when you’re in control,” she clarifies. “Not when you’re mean, per se. Though those two things tend to go hand in hand with you.”
“You like it when I’m in control, huh?”
Eden nods, nibbling her bottom lip. “It’s sexy. I love how you look at the front of the line, running your kitchen. It’s distracting, really. It’s a miracle I can get any work done.”
“That so?”
“It’s your hands that do me in, though.”
“These hands?” he asks, slipping his palms beneath her sweater—hissweater. He pulls up at the fabric and realizes something. “Are you—”
“Not wearing a bra? Yeah.”
He finally kisses her, grumbling, “You’re a fucking wet dream.”
“You’re welcome.”
Alexander lifts Eden onto the kitchen counter and moves in to claim her mouth, kissing and licking and breathing her in. He ignores his throbbing cock to instead focus on her. Her moans are like a siren’s song, hypnotizing and intoxicating. She grips his hair at the roots and holds him where she wants him. He adores the way her body feels pressed against his.
If he died this instant, he’d die a happy man.
“Mm, Shang—”
He freezes.
It feels like he’s taken a punch to the gut.
