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“What would you say if I told you I was attracted to you?”

He held his easy sled with awareness “Then I’d say that you’d better keep that on lockdown because things could get aard”

She could call his bluff Alexis knehen a guy was into her Layton was throwing off signals that a person would have to be blind not to see, but she felt a bit like a predator chasing after a poor doo to happen and she respected that—to a point—but his gaze was also throwing sparks that were bound to catch fire at some point

Alexis sighed dra at her injured foot “Well, the truth of the ue bath must mean that somewhere, deep down, you’re defective”

He startled with a laugh “I think you just insulted ue bath”

“See? It’s hopeless Let’s be honest, we’re both adults and we’re both attracted to one another We also both know that we shouldn’t act upon the dirty thoughts in our heads Soit’s probably best that you go ho terribly unfortunate happens between us”

“Unfortunate?”

“Yeah, like all our clothes flying off and landing on the floor”

He sed and she privately delighted in the way the thought made him stutter a little “Are you always this blunt?”

“Pretty much My mom says I’ve always suffered from a lack of tact, but my dad says I don’t seem to suffer from it at all”

Layton laughed with a slight twinkle in his eye that she found highly alluring “Okay, well, not leaving I made a promise to Erik that I’d stick around andto have to deal with my company”

Alexis held his gaze for a ed “Okay, but I can’t be held responsible for what may happen between us”

“Nothing is going to happen,” he said with a with a bone”

Alexis shrugged “We’ll see”

“How about this? You pick the s and bacon for breakfast”

She perked up The only thing capable of jarring her one-track mind was the introduction of her second favorite distraction: food “You can cook?”