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Then I asked, "Will you make me some brownies?"

He pulled away and narrowed his eyes "Me?"

"It’s my turn to watch you cook"

That earned rin

"Special brownies?" he asked

My heart flipped "Don’t even joke" I lightly punched his stomach, which I shouldn’t have because htrope and his abs were a mass of yummy

"I assume you actually want to be able to eat these brownies?"

Taking his hand again, I walked us down the hall If Marna and Ginger could learn their way around a kitchen, so could Kai "It’s a box mix You can’t mess it up I’ll supervise"

I cli The surface felt cool on the backs ofhihed and read the directions, lettingin his man hands, but we picked out the pieces of shell I clapped when the brownies went in the oven and he set the tiainst the stove I could tell he was still feeling bad about what had happened, and I didn’t want that I was still a little freaked out, too, mostly about the fear of the hilt, but I didn’t want it to put a daether

"The best part of cleanup is the bowl," I told hier inside the bowl and licked the batter off Kaidan conte the sa each other out of the way and laughing I distracted hiot the last bit of chocolate

"Urgh, you play nasty!" he co out his ear with the sleeve of his T-shirt

I was giggling hard by this point So our battle, he’d ended up betweenon the counter put us at eye level I tried to scoot back a little, but he put both hands on top of hs to stop ht now"

Right now

My fingers curled around the edge of the counter to steady ertip down the slope ofback up to pet the freckle above eous and alive