Secrets Worth Keeping (Finding my Home #2)- Nikita Parmenter Page 0,99

we enter the kitchen so he can start taking things out of the stove and plating everything up into serving dishes, which in all honesty I’m surprised the guys own.

“We bought them in town today” Atlas murmurs seeing where my focus is and guessing correctly what I was wondering.

I burst out laughing and he just shrugs completely unrepentant as he smiles down at me.

“Come on guys lets lay the table whilst Rafe dishes up” I suggest when the guys just stand around and hungrily watch him pile delicious smelling food into the dishes.

The kitchen is suddenly a hive of activity as we all get out plates, cutlery, glasses and drinks and start laying the table. With all of us helping it doesn’t take long at all and soon me and the guys are helping bring over the various side dishes, as Rafe brings over a huge turkey. I’d be worried that all of this food would be wasted but I’ve seen these guys eat, we’re more likely to not have enough food than we are to have anything left over.

“This looks amazing” I compliment him as we all start loading our plates, passing things to each other around the table as Rafe dishes up the turkey as he carves it.

His cheeks tint pink slightly and my heart swells. I don’t think I will ever not find it cute when a giant man blushes.

“Thanks, Everleigh” he says sending me a shy smile.

There’s not much talking between us for the first part of the meal, all of us too busy stuffing our faces with honest to god the best Christmas diner I have ever eaten and yes that includes the catered meal at Cash’s and Jenny’s Christmas dinner.

“Holy fuck you can cook. People would pay hundreds of dollars to eat your food and I’m not being overdramatic” I can’t help but compliment.

“I hope so. I want to own my own restaurant one day” he tells me smiling.

“Dude with food like this you aren’t going to have any problem” Jensen compliments around a mouthful of food.

The others are soon complimenting the food too and start to give him ideas on where they think it would be best to open his first restaurant and after shooting me a slightly nervous look, Jensen starts in on the financial aspect of it saying all sorts of really intelligent, complicated things and hot damn my underwear is practically incinerated.

I don’t know why it affects me so much. I think it might be because he’s so laid back all of the time that to hear him be so passionate and knowledgeable about such a complicated subject is damn impressive. That and I know that he doesn’t like to show a lot of people this side of him and although I can’t understand why he doesn’t, it makes me feel damn special that he’s being completely himself around me.

I focus back on my food, not wanting to embarrass him by staring in awe, I’ll make sure to tell him exactly how hot I find it later. Trick’s hand squeezes my thigh under the table, gaining my attention and I peek up at him, he just smiles softly and places a sweet kiss against my temple that has happiness bubbling up inside me.

These guy’s are going to spoil me with all their sweet affection if they aren’t careful. I’m not going to be the one to warn them. Rylie can do it.

Speaking of Rylie, I still haven’t heard anything from her. I’ve sent her a few messages since I’ve been here and got one, two word response back. It’s bumming me out but I refuse to focus on it now. I’ll deal with it when we get back.

Dinner doesn’t take long to finish and although we manage to eat the majority of it. There is quite a lot of turkey left since it was ginormous. As we help clear the table and put the dishes in the dishwasher, thank fuck we don’t have to hand wash all of this, I turn to Rafe.

“Ever made a turkey curry?” I ask.

“Nope. I haven’t tried to make any curry’s yet, there’s so many different spices that it just seems daunting” he shrugs.

“I can teach you the one I know how to make if you’d like. We can use the leftover turkey too and slow cook it in the oven, it tastes amazing when it’s done like that. It would need to be done in the next day or so though because we don’t