Page 9 of Daddy Frost

“Hey, Kalen and Delta.” Kayla, the woman behind the counter smiled at them. “How’s your morning going so far?”

“Good, and yours?” Delta was too busy staring at all the pastries in the glass display case to pay attention to her answer. His mouth watered when he spotted a humungous banana nut muffin. Delta could almost taste the moist center and the sweet bursts of bananas and nuts in each bite.

“Doing great, darling,” Kalen replied. “How’s Sanjay?”

The owner had cut back on his own hours, allowing Kayla to run the shop most days. From what Delta had heard, Sanjay had started dating the owner of Fearless Fox almost a year ago and the two were deeply in love.

Too bad Delta couldn’t find that kind of romance. It had been just him and his hand in a committed relationship for months now.

A lot of guys, and even some women, flirted with him, but with the way his life had been going, Delta didn’t want to put anyone through the bullshit he himself had to deal with.

“Doing great. What can I get you guys?”

Delta straightened to tell her he wanted the muffin he was eyeballing, only to notice Kalen stood right behind him, walling off his back in muscles and the dizzying smell of leather. His muscles tensed, and he couldn’t help but feel small in comparison to the guy’s larger frame.

“Two coffees and whatever Delta is salivating over,” Kalen replied with a soft chuckle that enveloped Delta like a velvet caress over his body, causing a hard rise to strain against his pants.

I’m salivating over you.

Now was the worst time to get an erection. The fabric of his pants was too thin, unapologetically showing off Delta’s arousal.

What in the world was wrong with him? The sound of a man’s soft laugh should not make him this freaking hard.

Thank god he was facing the display case. “That banana nut muffin.” He pointed to the one he wanted.

Kayla bent to grab the muffin, and when she stood, she was wearing a fine blush and averting her gaze.

Delta closed his eyes, wishing he could turn invisible. Kayla had spotted his boner through the glass display case. “Do you have a bathroom?”

He’d never needed one whenever he’d visited the shop, so he had no idea if one was available. But he was now desperate to get his problem under control before Kalen saw his issue.

Her back was to him as she made their coffee, simply waving her hand at the doors to her left. “Just go through the kitchen and head straight back.”

Delta didn’t bother saying anything to Kalen. He just took off through the doors and made a beeline toward the bathroom. When he walked into the small room, he shut the door and took a deep breath.

* * * *

As his cell phone vibrated in his pocket, Kalen glanced at the kitchen door. It had been five minutes since Delta went to the bathroom, and Kalen wasn’t sure if he should check on him or not.

“Yes?”

“What’s taking so long?” Damon grumbled. “Elvine is being a pain in the ass, claiming she’s starving to dead.”

Kalen chuckled. “Did you tell her it’s starving to death?”

Damon loved correcting her whenever she messed up an idiom, much to her annoyance. The others had stopped doing it after Jax told them it hurt her feelings due to her lack of education in the Unseelie realm.

Kalen thought it was ridiculous she hadn’t received a proper education because of her lower-class status, which only made him despise the Unseelie aristocrats.

What a bunch of arrogant assholes.

However, Damon was the exception. As frustrated as he acted when he corrected her, Kalen knew his son got a kick out of it.

Since both of them had become pregnant, they’d become best buddies. They also bickered constantly, driving everyone else in the house crazy.

Kalen cared deeply for Elvine, and considered her a daughter figure, because he’d secretly always wanted a daughter. Now that she had mated Jax, she was officially part of their family.

“Tell her to check the cupboard above the fridge,” Kalen instructed, turning his attention back to the kitchen entrance and wondering if maybe Delta had snuck out through the bakery’s back door.

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