“No?” she queried.
“No. That’s the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me, why would I want to forget?”
“I could say a lot nicer things to you.” She slammed her hand over her mouth as he chuckled.
What was wrong with her?
“Did you put truth serum in the sandwiches or something?” she grumbled.
Jeez. Maybe she’d overdosed her brain on Matthieu. Perhaps she needed to calm down a bit. Perhaps look at him a little less.
“Yes, I did,” he told her. “Also, you haven’t eaten the sandwiches yet.”
“Great.”
“Eat some sandwich. Slowly. And no talking while you eat.”
She watched as he started cutting the grapes in two.
“What are you doing?” she asked as she picked up a sandwich from her plate.
Funny, she couldn’t even recall putting food on her plate.
“Cutting up the grapes so you don’t choke again. You have some issues eating fruit. Obviously you need to be more careful.”
That was ridiculously overprotective. And so freaking sweet.
“You really don’t have to do that,” she told him.
“Of course I do. I don’t want you choking on them. Eat some more.”
“You’re always very bossy about what I eat.”
“Because you don’t eat enough.”
“I can stand to eat a bit less. These thighs still have some wobble,” she joked, poking her legs.
She thought he might laugh with her. Although she was hoping he wouldn’t out-and-out agree. What she hadn’t expected was the intense look he gave her.
“Who the hell told you that?” he demanded.
Maya stared at him in shock. “What makes you think someone said it to me? I might just think that.”
“In that case, we might need to do some talking, you and I.”
All right. That sounded rather ominous. And not something that she wanted to do.
“It was my stepmother,” she cried. “She used to say things like that to me. She’d tell me that I couldn’t have dessert that night because I was starting to get flabby thighs and she wouldn’t have a fat stepdaughter.”
“That. Fucking. Bitch.”
Yeah, she was that.
And more.
“She needs to suffer for that. There is nothing wrong with you. In fact, everything is right with you. Too right.”
That was a strange compliment.
