Forbidden Kisses
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His assessing brown eyes continued to stare. “You’re still upset over whatever happened last night? You never did tell me what that was, by the way.”
“Doesn’t matter. And no. It was just a long shift at work. My feet are killing me.” And her heart felt a little achy, too. “I can cook you dinner, if you want. To pay you back for all the nights of DDing in your cab.”
Joey shrugged his broad shoulders. “It’s no problem. It’s good for my image to be seen with a bunch of beautiful women.”
Krista walked over and joined her brother at the kitchen counter. “Seriously? It’s time you found yourself a good woman to take care of you.”
“Well, if I do that, who’ll take care of you?”
This made her laugh, even though laughing was the last thing she felt like doing at the moment. “You do take pretty good care of me. Guess we’ll be stuck together into old age. Maybe we should take in a couple dozen cats and freak the neighbors out.”
Joey glanced at her over his shoulder. “Tempting.”
She laughed again. “So, dinner. What do you want? Name anything we have in our pantry and I’ll cook it for you.”
He scratched his chin. “I’m not sure you can handle what I’m craving.”
She folded her arms at her chest and shook her head. “Are you serious? I’m offering to make anything and you want mac and cheese right now?”
He took on a serious expression. “How the hell did you know that?”
“Because that’s what you’ve wanted for every meal since you were five. Aren’t you ever going to grow up?”
“Only if you do.”
Krista pointed at the couch where she’d just been having a mini pity party. “Go. It’ll be ready in fifteen. But you’re eating a vegetable, too,” she said, channeling their mother. Krista pulled out the dark blue box with the neon orange–colored pasta dish on the front. Then she set about to making the meal her brother had asked for. He was never going to outgrow mac and cheese, but he had grown up. He owned his own cab business—even though he was the only cabbie—and he’d nearly married his high school sweetheart a while back. That had never happened, but at least he’d gotten close to his happily-ever-after. Krista, on the other hand, felt stuck in some in-between place. She wasn’t a child anymore, but she didn’t have the things she’d expected to be hers as an adult: a husband, a family. Even Grace was getting married now. And Abby Sawyer, the other part of their Thirsty Thursday trio, had already been there and done that with Noah’s oldest brother, Sam.
So why not me? Krista wondered as the water boiled in front of her.
The doorbell rang, breaking her from her thoughts. Krista looked up. It was either Grace or Abby attempting to pull her down to Thirsty Thursdays with them. “I’ll get it,” she said, sucking in a breath. She readied her “no” and opened the door to the reason she didn’t have the adult life she fantasized about, and the one man she’d never been able to say no to. “Noah. What are you doing here?”
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