The Untouchable Ex-Wife

Leia was left flushing all the way to her ears by Xavier’s obvious innuendos.

“Y-You’re such a pig!” She snapped, and slapped him across his chiseled cheek before shoving him as far as she could. “I must have been crazy to think that you were nice, but you’re nothing but a pig!”

Seeing that she really was upset, Xavier finally stopped smiling and explained, “Okay, okay —I was just messing with you. Also, I don’t mean ’ enjoy’ in the way you think. It’s a misunderstanding.’

“Then how do you mean it?!”

“I heard from someone that you like crayfish, and I bought ten pounds so that you’d have enough for a while. In some cultures, it’s a food that wards off bad luck too. How is that for your enjoyment?”

“Crayfish?!”

Leia’s eyes lit up at those words-she had to admit that crayfish was her favorite food, bar none. She would devour them whenever they were in season, or she could not stand it.

And while she was incarcerated, it was what she missed most of the world outside.

her-and at that moment, even reaching into

his chin under his hands with a vague smile.” Yeah. It’s your favorite, and I just happen to know how to cook them

how

salad, with potatoes. It

impatiently, gulping her drool that was threatening to leak. “What are we waiting

with a smug smile and got out of the car, thinking to himself that she had to be such a glutton to get swindled just by waving crayfish in

really spare

basement elevator,

raw wood, as was the trend these days. There were plush toys at every corner, helping to

play a game or something while I cook,” Xavier told her as he put up

husband, and there was hardly a hint of the playboy that

tamely. Though she was suddenly a little wary, she gulped, finding herself

him-a man in an apron was awfully seductive, and her appetite for the man was whetted more than her appetite

the kitchen, she could not help surveying his house gingerly out