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She climbed off of him. “I won’t. It’s fine. I could work from home. They’ve said it a few times. Especially if the weather is bad. Maybe it will snow.”
He slapped her bare ass when she bent over to get her clothes.
“That’s your decision,” he said.
She ran to the bathroom with her clothes in her hands before she left a messy trail throughout the house.
When she returned to the living room, Knox was dressed and had a cookie in his hand. More like the last bite of one.
“What do you want for lunch?” she asked. “I haven’t eaten yet. I’ll make us something.”
“Don’t go out of your way,” he said.
“I’m not. I want to talk anyway,” she said. Might not be the best time, but she was thinking about this and wanted to bring it up.
“That doesn’t sound good,” he said.
“It’s not horrible. How about grilled cheese?”
“Whatever you make I’ll eat,” he said. “Or I can just have a few cookies.”
“You can have your cookies and a sandwich,” she said. “We can talk while I cook.”
“Guess I’m not getting out of it,” he said, laughing.
She turned and squinted one eye at him and then grinned.
“Nope.”
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TAKEN UNAWARE OR SURPRISED
The minute Sage had opened her door to him and Knox smelled the cookies baking, he’d had a flashback to the last time he was here working in the building and knocked on her door.
If she hadn’t offered up a quickie, he would have done it.
Just like when he realized who she was months ago and would have loved nothing more than to have done what he had.
One of those fantasies that never left a man’s mind.
“What was it you wanted to talk about?” he asked as he watched her butter up four pieces of bread while a pan was heating on the stovetop.
She pulled out two different kinds of sliced cheese and he went to get chips out of her pantry.
“You,” she said.
“I figured as much,” he said. He wasn’t sure where she was going with this.
He didn’t think there was anything wrong with their relationship, but he’d been known to be clueless in the past.
“I don’t want you to think I’m jealous or anything,” she said.
“I don’t think that. I wouldn’t.”
“Good. When I reminded you I was on birth control you said you always loved it. It led me to believe I’m not the only one and I think you’re the type to only do that when you were in a committed relationship.”
“So you want to know who it was with that I did that?” he asked. “You know I’ve dated.”
