very well last night and needed a little extra rest,” he told her, pointing a finger at her cute little nose. “So…also your fault.”
“Somehow I got out of bed nice and early though. Guess we know which one of us wore the other out.”
“Or which of us did all the work,” he returned.
She laughed.
God, he loved teasing her.
“Anyway, no worries. Paige has been here long enough that she knows what kind of footwear it takes to be on the bayou. Let me go get something from her. If you ruin it, you can replace it. You’re a millionaire after all, right?”
Jill’s sudden smile nearly knocked him on his ass. It was quick, bright, and full of amusement.
“Hey, that’s true. I’m definitely still getting used to that.”
He chuckled. “Something like that won’t take long to get used to.”
“I’m just not a big spender, and I have pretty much zero taste when it comes to…everything. So, it might take me longer than most.”
She was intriguing. He was often attracted to women. He made friends easily and enjoyed other people and loved nothing more than to just sit around and talk and bullshit and laugh. But there was something about Jill that actually interested him. Maybe that sounded shallow when it came to his other human interactions, but he just wasn’t that often interested in the women he flirted with.
Well, he was interested in them as far as flirting, and having a good time, and then of course when they ended up naked, he was interested.
But most of the conversations he had that were actually fun and thought-provoking and entertaining were the ones he had with his family and friends. And most of his friends were family. He was as close to his cousins as he was to his brothers, and the entire Landry clan spent most of their social time together. He supposed that meant that he wasn’t looking to women to interest or entertain him.
But Jill was already doing both. And she wasn’t even trying. She only wanted to hook up with him once a month.
He was either going to throw her over his shoulder and take her upstairs and give shower sex another shot or he was going to take a big step back and insist she head up to the shower alone.
He did the latter. Which surprised him, actually.
“Go clean up. I’ll get dressed and get you some shoes and then we’ll go see the penguin habitat.”
He was really proud of that thing too.
She took a step toward the stairs, then turned back. “Actually…”
“Yeah?”
“Do you have any food?”
That wasn’t what he’d been expecting. “Food?”
She nodded. “I obviously don’t have any food in my house. And I haven’t had breakfast. I’m starving. I mean, we’re neighbors, right? So rather than borrowing a cup of sugar, I’m wondering if you have any cereal.”
“Cereal?”
“Breakfast cereal. Sugary is preferred. If it’s fruit flavored of any kind, bonus points.”
He shook his head. “No cereal. Sorry.”
She sighed. “If you had, you would’ve been too good to be true.”
As her gaze tracked over his naked torso again, Zeke was torn between wanting to laugh and wanting to press her up against the door and kiss the hell out of her before going down on her and making her come in his mouth.
She sure seemed horny for a girl who only wanted to hook up once a month.
And his body definitely liked her.
“I don’t have any cereal, but I can feed you.”
He did not mean that to sound dirty. And maybe it was only in his head.
“So you do have food?”
Yeah, it seemed that her mind was firmly on actual food rather than where his had been.
“No,” he said honestly. “I don’t have any food but I know where we can get some.”
“You don’t have any food? Like crackers or an apple? I’m not picky.”
“I might have ketchup. And I do have beer. But I don’t really eat here.”
“Where do you eat?”
“My mom’s or my grandma’s mostly.”
“You eat all of your meals at your mother’s or your grandmother’s house?”
“In fairness, my grandmother’s place is a restaurant,” he said. “But, yeah, I eat at least most of my meals at her place. If I can’t sit down to eat something, I can always pop into the kitchen to grab something. I go to my mom’s at least once a week though.”
Jill looked horrified. “Can you tell me where the grocery store is?”
“Yes. But I’m not going to. You’re going to go get cleaned up, I’m going to get