His Unexpected Lover (The Thorpe Brothers)

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Authors: Elizabeth Lennox
of browned, seasoned potatoes.  “Well, I’m glad you like my home,” he replied, then poured her some fresh squeezed orange juice.  “But I’m not married.”
    His words instantly settled her stomach and she relaxed, almost light-headed from relief.  “You did all this yourself?” she asked, her eyes wide with hope and fear. 
    “Sit,” he told her, smothering his laughter at her disbelief.  “Eat something.”
    Kiera looked at the omelet and her stomach growled.  So instead of ignoring him or even arguing with him any longer, she took a seat at his sunny breakfast table, setting her shoes down next to her on the wide-plank floor.  When she took her first bite, she closed her eyes in bliss.  “This is incredible!” she gasped, forking another bite into her mouth.  “Who made these?” she asked, looking for the box from the restaurant. 
    Since she’d watched him slide the omelet onto the plate, he rolled his eyes at her question.  “I made them.  Obviously,” he told her, refilling her cup of coffee. 
    Her eyes widened.  He’d cooked for her in the past, but nothing this good.  It had been mostly sandwiches or a quick burger.  More often they’d gone out to restaurants.  Cheap ones if she were buying and more expensive ones when he could convince her to let him pay for the meal. 
    “When did you learn to cook?” she asked, taking another bite of the fluffy, cheesy, veg etable filled omelet.  “This is incredible!” she exclaimed. 
    “Thanks,” Axel said, taking a long sip of his cold orange ju ice.  “As for when I learned to cook, I picked it up here and there.  All my brothers cook so I guess I learned from them.  And once I got into it, I liked looking up new recipes although most of what I cook is pretty simple.”
    She sighed as if she were in heaven.  She couldn’t remember ever tasting anything so flavorful.  “Is that a jalapeno in the mixture?” she asked, not believing that he would be creative enough to think about putting a spicy vegetable into an egg mix. 
    “Yes.  I grow them mys elf.  Sometimes they aren’t very spicy but this year was a good crop.”
    Her hand froze as she looked across the table at him. “You grow your own jalapenos?” she asked, stunned and somewhat disbelieving. 
    “And tomatoes and other vegetables.  I grew all the stuff in your meal except for the eggs and the cheese,” he said and winked at her.  He knew exactly what she was thinking and loved that he’d surprised her.  Kiera was one of those down to earth women who wasn’t easily surprised so this was one for the books. 
    “I don’t believe you,” she came back and took another bite.  “And even if you have a vegetable garden, you probably hire someone to do all the growing for you, don’t you?”
    He laughed, shaking his head at her disbelief.  “Of course not.  In fact, I’ll take you out to my garden after breakfast.”  He looked down at the floor where her dressy shoes were laying next to her bare feet. “Of course, you’ll have to borrow a pair of my boots.”
    She peered over the table as well but looked at his feet instead of hers.  “I don’t think they’ll fit.”
    He shrugged his shoulders.  “Suit yourself.  But you’re looking at my garden. I can’t have you thinking I’m a liar.”
    She laughed, still disbelieving but impressed that he would even have a garden. 
    Kiera shook her head again, then turned back to her plate, starving for more food and the omelet was exactly what her body needed, lots of protein and veggies.
    “Okay, let’s go,” he said when she was finished.
    She blinked and looked up at him.  “You’re taking me home?  I can just…”
    “I’m taking you out to my garden.  And then perhaps I’ll drive you home.  Don’t you dare tell me that you’re catching a cab because you’ll be severely punished if you think about doing that again.”
    Kiera knew that both of them were thinking about the last time

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