Husband With Benefits
Chapter 184: Bakery

Chapter 184: Bakery

While Demetri shuddered at the names, Nora was enjoying his expression. His face looked green. So she tried to out a few more names," You don’t like cupcake? I think it’s sweet... But if you don’t like it let me think... How about sweet dumplings? Or Honey muffin? Or...."

Before Nora could come up with more ridiculous names to throw on him, Demetri quickly walked forward and covered her mouth with his hand.

Demetri raised an eyebrow, his eyes narrowing playfully. "Sugarplum? Cupcake, sweet dumpling, honey muffin? Are you secretly opening a bakery or looking for a name for me?"

Nora mumbled something behind his hand, her eyes twinkling mischievously. Demetri removed his hand and looked at her with resignation while she grinned at him.

"Maybe I am going to open a bakery!! Who wouldn’t want a mouthful of sweetness?" Nora chuckled, her laughter bubbling like a playful melody. "But I have actually changed your name on my phone so you need not worry."

Demetri looked at the screen as Nora showed him the phone... It was still Mr Husband... but she’d added a possessive adjective to it..." My Mr. Husband..."

He shook his head even though he was quite pleased with the adjective. It was... not bad... he didn’t mind at all.

Nora grinned at her successful diversion and offered," Well, I’ve thought of a few more names...I can call you Frosty Darling or Sweet snowman..."

"I think I’ll stick with Demetri, thank you..." Demetri shook his head and cut her off lest she stick him with any of those ice cream shop names.

Nora pouted playfully as she sat on the couch, batting her eyelashes. "But Demetri, imagine the joy of being known as Frosty Darling! It’s like a winter fairytale romance, don’t you think?"

"No thank you. That name would make me feel like I need to have a carrot for a nose."

Nora giggled as that image appeared in her head while Demetri watched her with an indulgent look, his eyes glittering. The silly nicknames that she came up with might be cringe-worthy, but they were a small price to pay for the joy brought into his life.

Will she still look at him the same way if he told her that he was head over heels for her... Sigh.

Turning away, he discarded his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt. He’d come here all the way but now that he was here, he had no idea what he was going to tell her or how. It was quite unlike him to do things without thinking. But he should be used to it now when it came to her. He’d married her without thinking, hadn’t he? He’d actually believed that he would never fall in love! And now here he was, ready to eat his own words...

On one hand, he simply wanted to blurt out the truth while on the other, he wanted her to feel how special and precious she was to him.

As Nora leaned back on the couch, her eyes widened when she saw him unbuttoning his shirt. "What are you doing?"

Demetri frowned at the panic in her voice and looked at her. What was he doing? He was preparing to go for a shower...

At this point, he realized that while he had been thinking of confessing to his wife, her mind had wandered towards something else... He’d created a monster when he introduced her to the pleasures of the body?

"What am I doing? You can’t tell?"

"Uhh... I thought you wanted to tell me something but now you are disrobing..."

"Disrobing?" Demetri raised an eyebrow, "You’ve been reading a lot of historical romances these days? But you are right. I am indeed disrobing. It is what one does when they need to take a shower..."

"Ahh..." Nora blinked at that. He wanted to take a shower. And here she was thinking that he’d want a repeat of the last time...

Demetri could read her like a book of course. He walked or rather prowled towards her slowly and leaned down. Nora leaned backwards on the couch as he came closer, blinking rapidly. Placing his hand on each side, he inched even closer. Nora tried to keep her eyes on his face but the shirt had already parted and her eyes were rather thirsty.

As she feasted her eyes on his abs, Demetri gently kissed her lips before leaning close to her and whispering," I would do that if it’s your wish, but I’d been in the office for a few days and then travelling...Also, I’m here for the foreseeable future...so there is no hurry, hmm... We can spend the next few days in here. Steam things up a little bit... a steamy romance is much more successful than a winter fairytale one, I assure you."

Nora blushed a bit at that and quickly stood up before her mind could conjure up anything else that would make her prone to his teasing. "Who wants to write a steamy romance? Ha! A fairytale is the best! Oh gosh! I have to run, Demetri! You did not tell me you were coming! I still have a theatre performance in the evening! I’ll... I’ll uh call you to make plans! Bye..."

Before Demetri could respond, Nora quickly slipped out of the room, leaving him with a bemused expression.

As she raced out, Demetri called out," I’ll come there to pick you up for dinner, Be ready, kitten!"

Nora muttered under her breath as she escaped her husband’s room with her heart threatening to beat out of her chest. First thing she needed to do was call and interrogate Erasmi Frost! Just what had he gone and said to Demetri that the man had come here so suddenly?

She should not have confided in him! It was a wrong choice. Her confidant was too close to the enemy... She thought back to their conversation when Erasmi had questioned her directly," Do you love my brother?"

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