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"You’re joking, right?" he asked pointedly

I had no idea what he was talking about "Uh out of a plastic tube? Pre-ed "It’s easy and fast, and they taste fine"

He shook his head again "Showsupplies I can’t stand by and watch this"

I scowled at hiuest," I told him

"I have a job Several actually But yeah, I’m bossy No , but I alking from the kitchen and into the walk-in pantry while I did it I waved a hand at the area that kind of held the baking supplies The pantry was hardly well organized, so he would probably have to dig around to get everything he needed for cookies

I left hi back into the kitchen to pre-heat the oven and grease a cookie sheet I put out a large ht heIt was the least I could do if he was actually going to do the baking

I shrugged out of rees outside, but you wouldn’t know it by the way I normally froze inside of the A/C’d to death house It wasn’t noret so war a thin white tank and sitting on the counter when Tristan strolled back into the kitchen, his ar supplies

He set the theed with the s

"Salt?" he askedto process what he’d said

I pointed behind me after a feard moments

He moved towards me without a word, and I saw my folly then The cupboard I’d pointed to was directly behind rabbed it for hi uncoot so close to my face that I could smell him He smelled divine, so divine that I closed my eyes for a second to take it in

He had to reach up, so his hip grazed et closer

I gasped

"Sorry," he said, backing up, the salt in his hand I saw his eyes flick briefly downthe salt beside the other ingredients

"So you’re the nanny, huh? You are not what I pictured when Jerry said he had a live-in nanny"

I glared at his back "What did you picture?"

"I don’t really know I didn’t have a clear picture insomeone like you" He turned his head to flick ave him a very unfriendly look, offended, and a little wounded "What is that supposed tome evil eyes Nannies just don’t usually look like you You’re like what Hollyould cast to be a nanny to add sex appeal to a movie You’re sexy Really sexy Don’t play coy You know you’re gorgeous"

I stopped glaring, but I ary of the coon you, and I won’t What are you, like eighteen? Way too young forfacts Normally women don’t appreciate other woain "I’ for theto be a dick It just surprised ave me no hints that you were, well, hot"

"How old are you?" I asked hi comment

"Twenty-six"

"That’s not that old," I told hihteen-year olds, or even twenty-one year olds Frankly, though, I’e, too, when it comes to relationships, which is why I don’t do them"

I couldn’t help it I had to ask "So what do you do?"

"Hookups Brief, casual hookups How about you?"

I shookmy lips at him I couldn’t quite believe that we had jumped to this already He was a man to be careful of, to be sure "I do relationships No exceptions Never had a casual hookup insos less co sht that this was one of the strangest conversations I’d ever had, being that we had just met Only, it didn’t feel like we’d just met He spoke to me like he’d knownhe said in that low voice of his

I nodded, giving hi s under the same roof for the next week"

"Okay, then My first job as your friend will be to show you how to make the best chocolate chip cookies in the world"

CHAPTER TWO

Tristan walkedprocess, and I pretended to pay attention, but that attention kept wandering to his spectacular arms while he worked I barely kept my composure when he used the mixer, and I watched his ripped arms vibrate with the movement of it

"Did you catch that, Danika?" he askedat his face "Huh?"

He shook his head aton the shadow of a beard lining his jaw I’d never found the unshaven look so attractive before

"You’re a little trouble back to his cookie dough

"Me?" I asked, and I wasn’t sad when he didn’t respond We didn’t need to get into a conversation about Trouble

He spooned little balls of his dough onto the cookie sheet very precisely He slid the pan into the oven, setting the tio out?" he asked me as he washed his hands

I couldn’t seem to take my eyes off his hands "Go out?"