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He chuckled “And now you’re far more talkative?”

“I don’t knohy It’s not like I mean to speord vomit everywhere Are you mad?”

“I could never be mad at you”

“I bet it’s really easy to do” She sighed “I tried to avoid it”

“The doctor came to see you about your shoulder today, didn’t he?”

She nodded “He said it’s healing up okay It’s not like I can’t use it I can I just have to be careful so I don’t tear the stitches” She frowned “I don’t know if I’ to be able to make this dinner all by myself, and you made that chef hate me”

“No one could hate you”

“Every time I enter the kitchen, everyone runs away”

He took her hand, kissing her knuckles “That’s because I was pissed off”

“You stabbed that poor man”

“He threw knives at you and called you names”

“It was fine”

“If one of those knives had hit you—” He couldn’t even bring himself to finish his sentence

He couldn’t stand the thought of her in pain Even noith her shoulder He wanted to take the pain away The only consolation he got was the fact she kept on hugging him with those pain pills

“Hey,” she said, cupping his face “Don’t worry about it I’m not” She pressed a kiss to his lips “Why don’t you help me cook? You, me, and James, it’ll be so much”

“You want me to help you cook?” He hadn’t been in the kitchen to cook for himself in years It hy he hired a cook

“Unless it is beneath you Are you not used to cooking for yourself?”

“Ha, ha, very funny”

She pouted “Is that a yes or no?”

He reached out, pushing some of her brown hair behind her ear She was so incredibly beautiful He wondered if she realized how much It wasn’t just her looks that ood heart A kind soul In every single way that

That hy he couldn’t get her out of his le other woman, he knehat to expect When it cas as everyone else, far frole part of her

Stroking her cheek, he wondered what she was thinking Most of the time she was an open book, but he still wanted her to talk all the time

Again, so new for him

“I’ll cook for you, Grace, but ill I get out of it?” he asked

“Food When you cook, there is always a reward”