Chapter 21. Indebted

“Someone can’t take their eyes off me, huh?” He says this without looking at me as he takes off the mittens, placing the ready bacon and sausages on the tray. I presume he was watching me study him from the corners of his eyes all this time. It is none of his fault, though. I was so obviously staring.

That reminds me... My tea must be ready. I should take it out now, and I was about to do so until he turned to me with a bewitching, mischievous grin as he started towards me. I forget what I was supposed to do, and he decides to mess with my brain.

“Why? Am I that magnetic?”

Damn! That goes without a doubt. These features—who wouldn’t they charm? Well, aside from his stony, feeling-less wife, But hey, I am innocent of his accusations. I was just thinking of this new, enchanting version of him. I wasn’t drooling over him.

“I am just blown away by the idea of you in here and doing this. This wasn’t you back then?” I say, exchanging glows with him as he drapes his