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She lifted her eyebrows. “Can you even cook? I don’t think I’d be good at faking enjoying bad pancakes and burned bacon.”

I scoffed. “Excuse me, I can make an excellent breakfast. It’s only my favorite meal. And I’m an older sister, remember? I’ve been making breakfast since I was old enough to use the stove without adult supervision. I can even make pancakes in different shapes and everything.”

Eli and Carson always requested silly pancake shapes that I’d attempt to make for them with varying success.

Hunter grinned up at me. “Okay. Show me your pancakes. And bacon. And eggs. Can you do eggs?”

There she was. The girl who asked for what she wanted. I’d been waiting to see her.

“I can do any kind of eggs you want.”

She bit her bottom lip. “Poached?”

I tapped her on the nose. “I make excellent poached eggs.”

Making breakfast did require us to get out of bed, but I dragged Hunter to the kitchen and made her sit while I cooked. That didn’t last long because my girl wasn’t going to stand by and let someone else take over her kitchen. I let her be in charge of the bacon while I mixed up the pancakes and poached the eggs.

“I’ve never been brave enough to try and figure out poached eggs, but I love ordering them,” she said as I made my first pancake.

“Really?” she asked when she saw the shape.

“I’m a romantic.” Of course I’d made it in the shape of a heart. An imperfect heart, but all the best ones were.

Hunter rolled her eyes, but she didn’t make any other snarky comments. I think I was finally wearing her down.

“You coming to yoga tonight?” she asked when I flipped the first pancake. Once I’d made a few more, I’d poach the eggs.

“Yeah, I can skip my workout and come to class if you want me to.” Rivera and Coop would give me shit about it, but I could handle that. They’d been up my ass about wanting more details about Hunter. At last I finally had some good updates to tell them. Incredibly sexy updates.

“No, don’t skip your workout. I’ll just see you on Monday.” Her cheeks pinked.

“You gonna miss me, baby?” I asked, bumping her hip with mine.

“Shut up,” she said, her face going redder.

“You totally like me,” I teased and then yelped when she pinched my ass.

“Keep saying stuff like that and I’ll kick you out of my apartment.” Oh, she was asking for it. I turned the burner off and whirled around, grabbing her hips and lifting her onto the counter.

“You’re not gonna kick me out of your apartment,” I said in her ear as I yanked on her shorts, pulling them down her legs.

Hunter gasped and shoved her fingers into my hair as I pushed her legs apart and dove right in to lick her pussy.

She shouted and dug her heels into my back as I fucked her with my tongue and restlessly licked her clit until her entire body was shaking and collapsing around me as she came.

I looked up at her from my position on the floor.

“Yeah, you’re not kicking me out.”

She let out a breathless laugh and raked her hair back from her face and gave me a sated smile.

“Fuck you, Stace.”

Hunter

I wanted to make a good impression on her family, so Stace and I agreed that she would go back to her place to get clothes and get ready and I’d do the same at mine before we met at the restaurant.

She’d said goodbye to me with a kiss and it wasn’t until I closed the door and was alone for the first time since yesterday that I realized what the fuck I’d done.