Page 52 of Resisting Fate (Hope Falls: Brewed Awakenings 3)

So where did that leave them?

He didn’t have any of those answers, but one thing he did know was that neither of them had had dinner. He might not have control of anything else tonight, but he could make sure they ate.

When Audrey finished texting her sister, she looked up at him and he noticed she was biting her lower lip. She only ever did that when she was nervous.

There was an electricity in the room that hadn’t been there when they’d been expecting Jeremy Mills to walk through the door any second. Now that they knew it would be just the two of them until morning, the air was crackling with expectation.

Hoping to relieve some of the tension he clapped his hands together. “Okay, well there’s really only one thing to do.”

“What?” she breathed out.

“Eat.”

A wide smile spread across her face.

He walked over to the kitchen area and saw that Mills hadn’t been lying. There was enough food here to feed a family of four for a week. After a brief inspection he turned to Audrey and asked, “Do you feel like chicken or spaghetti?”

Her eyes twinkled with delight. “Spaghetti.”

“Italian it is.” Nonna would be furious at him for cooking Ragu, but desperate times.

“What can I do to help?” Audrey asked.

They worked together and prepared the food. He noticed that while they did she slipped out of her shoes and put her hair up in a bun. Audrey always loved to be comfy when she was at home. Not that she was home, but this was home for the night. He also realized that she was in her work jeans and T-shirt and they hadn’t brought a change of clothes because this wasn’t supposed to be a sleep over.

“Can you watch the sauce? I need to run out to the truck to grab something.”

“Sure.” She moved in front of him and took the spoon out of his hand. When she did her ass brushed across the front of his pants and he got hard. Not rock hard, but hard enough to make his jeans uncomfortable.

Even though it probably shouldn’t, he had a little pep in his step as he went out to the truck. That was the first time in two years that he’d had any movement down below when he was with a female. He grabbed the Hope Falls Effect sweats that he’d washed and had planned on returning to Viv from behind his seat and brought them into the cabin.

“You can change into these if you want.”

“Sweats?!” Audrey’s face lit up adorably.

The girl loved to be comfortable.

Josh nodded and handed them to her then took the spoon from her hand. “I got this. You can go change.”

He moved the sauce off the hot burner and was draining the noodles in the sink when Audrey returned. The pot almost slipped out of his hand when he saw that she wasn’t wearing any pants. She was holding the sweats and they were folded up. His eyes were drawn to her bare legs which were peeking out beneath the oversized shirt that hit her mid-thigh.

“The sweats don’t fit me, so I figured you could wear them.”

He forced his eyes back up to hers and he nodded, not trusting himself to speak. They were stuck in a cabin together. Overnight. And she wasn’t wearing any pants. He’d either died and gone to heaven or this was his personal hell.

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