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A warm smile found Alexis’s lips “So full of wisdom, aren’t you?”

“Only because I’ve made my share of dumb moves and I have the scars to prove it”

She tucked her robe around her “I would’ve thought that this would’ve been a convenient out for you Notoutside of their wheelhouse”

“I didn’t say it was outside of“I just didn’t think you’d be okay with a one-and-done”

“I’m notbut a day of sex with you sounds just about perfect”

“You sure about that?” he asked, his dark eyes threatening to drown her in their beautiful depths And those eyelashes! Criminal!

She hadn’t lied when she’d said she’d come faster with Layton than anyone else and it’d been a pretty fantastic orgasistered but one of those earth-shattering oh-ive up, but she was determined to stay the course “Yep,” she said withto bake cookies You can help if you want”

“Cookies? Why now?”

“Because it’s part of hts, and keeping to oals”

The fact that I’h of a warning sign Yep, so go bake cookies, Alexis!

And then she left him in her bedroom

HUMMING UNDER HER BREATH, Alexis hobbled to the kitchen, detererbread cookies before Erik returned Erik was a sucker for her cookies and Alexis was not above using his love for cookies to get what she wanted, such as premium cable when Erik had been adaal than her—hence the belief by their parents that he was the more responsible one

Well, that and the fact that he seemed to have his life on track whereas she had made more than a few stops and starts

Such as when she agreed to let an internet start-up coo all over her car with the pro her rent for six one belly up within a o blazoned across her bumper, which had to be professionally removed at her own cost