"Wait."
She turned back. "For what?"
I eyed the waffles. "What's the dark stuff?"
"Tuna."
My eyebrows furrowed.Well, that explained the smell."Anything else?"
Again, she perked up. "I found a tin of anchovies."
I swallowed. "Anchovies?"
She gave a cheerful nod. "You really do have a terrific shopping service. I swear, they think of everything."
Funny, I was swearing, too, just not out loud. I gritted out, "Anything else?"
She lifted the plate closer. "Bacon."
If she meant the two flimsy strips on the side, yeah, I saw it. "I meantinthe waffles."
"Oh." She made a show of frowning. "No. Sorry."
I felt my eyes narrow. "And you ate yours? Seriously?"
She nodded. "Yeah. I had two full ones. Gotta get that protein, right?"
Two full waffles?And now, there were two full waffles on the plate she was currently holding. This was no coincidence. Of this, I was sure.
Shit, I could eat two of anything without blinking. It was an easy victory if I ever saw one. "Oh, fuck it," I said and reached toward the plate.
She pulled it away. "But wait. Don't you want any syrup?" She smiled. "I had mine with syrup."
Yeah. She had.I'd seen it with my own eyes. But I was only willing to go so far to prove my point. I reached out, farther this time, and snagged the top waffle. I lifted it to my mouth and tore into it with my teeth.
Trying to chew as little as possible, I swallowed most of the chunks whole and finished with a big gulp of coffee.
After the waffle, the coffee tasted pretty damned delicious.
Anna was frowning now. "But wait, don't you want to sit down?"
"I'll sit when I'm done," I said, grabbing the second waffle and choking it down as fast as I could. When I finished, I downed the rest of the coffee and tried like hell to look like I didn't feel like tossing it all back up again.
And now, Anna was looking almost disgruntled. "So…What'd you think of the waffles?"
"Delicious," I lied. "What'd you think of yours?"
"Mine?" she said. "They weren't too bad. But of course, I had bacon in mine."
I stared at her. "What?"
"Bacon," she repeated. "Crumbled."
"You mean baconandthe fish stuff?"
She shook her head. "Nah. Just the bacon."
Again…What the fuck?
