The Waiter at Table 6 (Just Tonight, #2)

by Nikki Castle

“I hope this isn’t too forward, but I’m glad you’re staying. Anyone who isn’t twenty minutes early and dying to meet you isn’t worth your time, anyway.”

I’ve kept the real reason for our split under wraps when talking to other people, but…I’m sick of covering for my ex.

I’m thinking you were hot before, but picturing you as a chef? Cooking, and then feeding me? I didn’t have a chef kink before, but I definitely do now.

Because I am a beautiful, independent woman who deserves to feel like one.

Because the idea of letting Ryder a little closer doesn’t feel as suffocating as it did. Not because he was suffocating, but because I didn’t have enough of my own air to trust in myself that I wouldn’t try to take on his.