Free Goody Two Shoes (Invertary Book 2) by janet elizabeth henderson Page A

sucked him in. It was as though it was trying to eat him. Speaking of food, Josh’s stomach rumbled. “Can we leave now? I’m starving to death.”
    “Yes. I can see that.”
    “Are you saying I’m fat?” Josh tugged up his T-shirt and examined his abs. Okay, so they weren’t as tight as they’d been at the end of his last tour, but he was on his downtime, damn it.
    He glanced up to see what Caroline thought, and caught her staring at his stomach. Her cheeks were pink and her little tongue darted out to lick her lips. Josh smiled wickedly. He ran his fingers over his abs. “Maybe I could work out a bit more.” He grinned wider as Caroline’s eyes ate up his movement. Nope. There was nothing wrong with him. He reluctantly dropped his shirt, and Caroline snapped out of her daze. Pity.
    “Right. Okay.” She seemed flustered. “Let’s pick up some food and get this homework done.”
    “Great. This night never ends.”
    Her back snapped straight. “No one is keeping you. You can go home any time you like. As I recall, you forced your way into coming with me.”
    Josh took her hand and dragged her towards the door. “Feed me, Caroline. There’s a limit to what I can suffer, and all I’ve had since lunch was whatever was in the domino boys’ cookie tin.”
    “You ate their biscuits?”
    The community centre door slammed behind them, and Caroline turned to lock it.
    “It was either that or eat the guy who wouldn’t shut up. I thought I made the right choice.”
    Caroline stifled a giggle. “Fine. We’ll pick up some food at the pub and eat it at my place while we work.”
    Josh didn’t hear anything past the word food . He grabbed Caroline’s hand and practically ran to the pub.
     

CHAPTER EIGHT
     
    “What’s your favourite food?” Josh looked up from the workbook the vicar had given him, and grimaced at Caroline. She tried not to smile at the sight of him sitting at her tiny table. He was far too big for the furniture she’d inherited. In fact, he was too big for her whole house. It made her feel like they were in a Wendy house, playing at being adults. “Seriously? He wants to know what my favourite food is? What does this have to do with the wedding?”
    Caroline resisted the urge to smack him upside his head. “He doesn’t care what your favourite food is. He’s trying to fast-track the ‘getting to know you’ part of our courtship. He’s helping us.”
    “Yeah. Right.” Josh ate another fry. He’d already polished off two massive burgers. “I know a better way to fast-track getting to know each other.” He waggled his eyebrows at her and gave her a fake leer.
    “Do you only think about sex?” She was pleased that she didn’t blush when she said the word.
    Josh shrugged. “I think about food too.” He gave her a sexy smile that made her toes curl. “Come on, Caroline, let’s do something that’s way more fun.”
    Caroline ignored him and stepped over to flick on the kettle.
    He sighed dramatically. “So what’s your favourite food, then?”
    “Bacon and eggs.”
    His eyebrows shot up. “Not chocolate? I thought every woman loved chocolate.”
    “Do you actually need me here to answer the questions? Or will you just use your extensive knowledge of women to come up with an average?”
    “Snippy, Caroline. Very snippy.” He seemed proud of her.
    She tried not to smile. “What’s your favourite food, then?”
    “Steak. No. Pizza.” He grinned. “Steak pizza.” His triumphant smile made her laugh.
    “Maybe we should have that at our wedding?”
    “Now that’s a great idea.” Josh shook the pen in his hand before looking at it with disgust. “This isn’t working.”
    “There are some more on the desk next door.”
    Grumbling about the fact he was never going to have any fun, Josh squeezed his frame through her kitchen door and into the hallway.
    “Holy crap, Caroline, you got enough books?”
    She grinned in spite of herself. She was very proud of her fiction