Page 74 of Viktor

Damn, but the man did things to her hormones. Even unsettled as she was from Dimitri’s dominance show, she appreciated Viktor’s ass. Her head and her priorities were not in a good place.

She answered the knock at the door and grinned at the guy’s huge smile when she told him to keep the change. The pizza only came to twenty dollars and some change. Viktor could be trying to impress her, but she would bet good money he tipped like this all the time. He was a generous man.

She curled her nose at the smell of pepperoni. Not her favorite, but she’d pick the little suckers off hers. They’d sent over paper plates, napkins, and cups. Viktor must have asked for it, because they didn’t typically deliver that stuff. He did get three two-liters of Coke. She put two of them in the mini fridge and took everything else to the coffee table in front of the couch.

Viktor had his laptop open to Netflix.

A huge, goofy smile broke out, and she laughed. Pizza and a movie. Best date night ever.

Wait…date night? This wasn’t a date. Or was it? Her stomach knotted up, but not in a bad way. It dipped and twisted, but in that delicious way she hadn’t felt in years.

The bathroom door opened, and he came out, his eyes finding her. He always looked at her with this blazing intensity, and now was no different. In fact, it seemed to have heightened, and it caused her to blush from head to toe.

She never blushed. It was something she thought she’d outgrown, but he made her blush with just a look.

“I wasn’t sure what you liked, so I ordered pepperoni and a plain cheese.” He sat down beside her. If he noticed her reaction to him, he didn’t comment on it, but really, how could he not? Her face felt hot enough to be cherry red.

“Delia would be the pepperoni lover. I prefer actual pizza and not all that other gunk on it.”

He opened the pizza boxes and found the plain cheese. After heaping a plate with three slices, he poured them both a cup of pop. The box containing the pepperoni pizza landed right in his lap. The whole thing.

“More for me, then.”

“You’re not going to eat that whole thing?”

“Sure will.” He picked up a slice and swallowed half of it in one bite. “Probably eat the rest of yours too.”

“Uh huh.” She sipped her drink. “Like pizza much, do you?”

“My favorite food in the world. Although my sister-in-law might like pizza more than I do, but she’s a pizza snob.”

“A pizza snob?”

He made a face. “I’m a Papa John’s man. She doesn’t think pizza is any good unless you get it from one of those places owned by Italians making it for over a hundred years. She snarls when I order this.”

“I like Papa John’s.” She took a bite of hers, and the tangy flavor of the sauce burst across her tongue. They had the best sauce out of all the delivery places back home.

“A woman after my own heart.” He inhaled another piece, and Sara’s eyes widened. Good Lord, she thought Dimitri was bad, but Viktor could pack it away right alongside his brother.

“Do all your brothers eat like this?”

He paused, another slice midway to his mouth. “Like what?”

“Like you’ve been stranded on a desert island for weeks with no food.”

He turned sheepish. “We all love food. It’s why we work out for a good hour or two every day. Papa taught us if we are gonna eat like pigs, then we best be prepared to pay for it.”

“I haven’t seen you work out once since you got to the farm.”

“You sleep later than I do.” He swiped the corner of her mouth and then sucked the stray pizza sauce off his finger. “Besides, helping your dad at the farm is a better workout than anything I could do on machines. I think he’s trying to kill us. I have muscles aching I had no clue were there before.”

She didn’t really hear anything he said after he’d sucked on his finger. Images she shouldn’t be seeing rose up and blindsided her.

“Can you turn on that show we were watching about the brothers?”

“Huh?” She blinked, and he laughed, the sound low and knowing, but he didn’t call her out.

“The show we watched the other night? I liked it. I thought maybe we could watch some more of it tonight.”

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