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One click at a time, I took back this aspect of my life

This definitely called for brownies

I skipped down the stairs and al up "Hey!" Did that couy usually sucked the oxygen right out of ht suit? Holy shit For someone who’d never even wanted near a soldier…well, I wanted to be very near Grayson Like within a breath A touch Under him Over him Pinned between his yards of muscle and the wall

"Hey yourself" His eyes lit up like he knew exactly what I was thinking

"Good day?" I forced out

"Great day I passedlike a lovesick moron, but I couldn’t help it He looked happier than I’d ever seen

"Oh yes, this is definitely a brownie kind of day I’et your kitchen so dirty" My nose scrunched while I tried to pull off the innuendo

He didn’t so much as flinch, just kept that intense Grayson-stare "I have to leave in about an hour Our flight to Nags Head is tonight"

My shoulders stayed straight, instead of slu the way I felt, like a balloon that had been popped He’d just been there last weekend "Well, Euess that leaves more for us" I pushed a smile out

"Save me one I’ll be home Sunday"

I nodded, and he tucked a strand of hair behind hter…easier after passing that test

We did the aard both step to the left, both step to the right, before finding our way around each other, and I headed for the kitchen and pulled out a box of browniefor a couple days He went home like twice a month, it wasn’t like this should have been such a shock, or even an issue Hell, he wasn’t even mine to have an issue about I had a crush, a stupid, inconvenient crush on my incredibly sexy rooet crushes, not you

I cracked the egg and poured the ingredients over the mixture after I warernails tapped out a steady rhythm on the top of it as the powder turned into deliciousness, buthere This was a pit stop in the road to educational and…well, raduate flight school in Decened somewhere close to hoone fro even happened between us, we’d only have sixYet

My hand slipped and knocked the lever on the side of the mixer