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.

did understand her-and at that moment, even reaching into her

It’s your favorite, and I just happen

know how to

salad, with potatoes. It goes

that was threatening to leak. “What are we waiting for? Let’s ‘enjoy’

himself that she had to be such a glutton to get

he really spare her

both alighted and headed to the basement elevator, which took them up to Xavier’s

trend these days. There were plush toys

a game or something while I

to be a domestic husband, and there was hardly a hint of the playboy

she was suddenly a little wary, she gulped, finding

to give it to him-a man in an apron was awfully seductive, and her appetite for the man was whetted

in the kitchen, she could not help surveying his