Page 101 of Getting Wrapped Up

She couldn’t. She was praying for a cookie. Something she could swipe quickly and eat without Levi knowing. She didn’t want him to hear her stomach growling while they had sex.

Levi took her hand again and started for the porch. He tipped over the ceramic frog next to the steps and retrieved the key to the front door.

They shed their winter clothes, including her wet shoes and his boots, just inside the front door. Kate’s mind was spinning with ideas about how to get to the food. Then she remembered there was a small powder room just off the kitchen.

“I need to go to the bathroom.”

“I’m going to wash my hands.”

They spoke at the same time and Kate had to work not to frown. If Levi went into the kitchen to wash his hands, she couldn’t sneak anything.

She thought fast. She patted her pockets. “Oh, crud, I think maybe my phone slipped out in the truck.”

Levi just looked at her for a moment.

“Could you go check?” she asked.

“You need it right now?”

Of course she didn’t. And it was in her coat pocket anyway. But these were desperate times. “I really should check for any texts,” she lied.

There was no way Leviwouldn’tgo out to the truck for her, so she gave him a big smile.

He sighed and stepped back into his boots. She felt a little guilty and determined that she would make it up to him later. After cookies.

As soon as the front door shut, she made a beeline for the kitchen. There were apples in a bowl on the counter and she grabbed one of those as she headed for the snack cupboard. She and Levi had stayed with Phoebe and Joe through Christmas until Kate had returned to California on the twenty-sixth of December, so she knew where things were in the kitchen.

She grabbed two graham crackers and a pudding cup before she heard the front door open again. Tucking the apple under her arm and sticking a cracker in her mouth, she shut the cupboard quietly and slipped into the bathroom.

“Didn’t find it babe,” Levi called to her through the door.

She chewed the graham cracker quickly and swallowed. “Okay, thanks. Dang, I’ll have to look in my coat again.”

“I’ll check it.”

Levi’s steps moved away from the door and she quickly crunched on the other cracker while pulling the lid off the pudding. Then she realized she didn’t have a spoon. With a sigh she dipped two fingers into the plastic cup and scooped up a glob of vanilla pudding.

It tasted just fine that way.

She finished the crackers and the pudding and took three bites of the apple, but she knew she couldn’t stall in the bathroom much longer. At least that jolt of blood sugar would get her through an orgasm or two and then maybe Levi would be hungry too.

She flushed the toilet, tossed the apple into the wastebasket and washed her hands.

When she stepped out of the little room, she came up short.

Levi had a buffet of snacks laid out on the countertop.

“You’re hungry?” she asked him.

He gave her a sexy grin. “For you.”

But he was chewing. She eyed the countertop. There was a bottle of chocolate syrup, more graham crackers, a cut up banana and a tray of veggies and dip.

“Hmm.” She moved closer. “So what’s your plan here, big guy?”

“To make you scream my name as you come,” he told her, stepping close.

Of course, her body got hot and soft with just those few words. Truthfully, the guy didn’t need to have a plan…or even work that hard, really. She was all his and always ready for him.

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