Only One for Me by Candace Shaw Page B

dark skinny jeans, down to her black knee-high
boots before rising back up to settle on her face which she knew
had to be flushed because her cheeks were burning. She placed her
focus on the tasty cupcakes to avoid looking in his
direction.
    “ Can’t decide. They all
look delicious, but I know Sherika loves amaretto so let’s try that
one and one of the chocolates for the groom’s cake,” Yasmine
answered with ease, and was surprised she wasn’t as nervous being
alone with him as she thought she would be, despite the way he’d
just raked his eyes over her like an x-ray.
    She grabbed the two amaretto cupcakes
while Cannon grabbed two German chocolates, and they settled in at
the table.
    “ Did you eat something
before coming?” he asked, taking a sip of the water.
    “ Not since breakfast.” She
sipped her water. “What about you?”
    “ The same. You know I love
eating anything sweet and couldn’t wait to get here.” He had a
sparkle in his eye and a wicked grin crossed his face.
    Yasmine blinked her eyes a few times
at his comment. Cannon had a way of saying something normal, but
there was always a sexual connotation behind it. She thought surely
she’d heard emphasis on the word eating. Her mind transported her
to a time where he’d done just that while they were at his parent’s
home visiting for the weekend, and he told her not to make a sound.
Starting from her forehead, he’d kissed and licked every inch of
her, enticing her breasts in his warm mouth, before lingering in
the sensitive area between her legs longer than the other places
until he drove her crazy with an unruly, muffled orgasm. She
squirmed in her chair at the memory.
    “ Are you ready to begin?”
he asked picking up the chocolate cupcake.
    She snapped out of the daydream she’d
had plenty times before. “Yep.” She picked up the amaretto one.
“Bon appétit.”
    She bit into her cupcake while Cannon
popped the entire thing into his mouth, leaving a little bit of
chocolate icing on the corner of his bottom lip. Yasmine’s eyes
settled on the delectable spot. She wanted nothing more than to
reach across the table and lick the chocolate off of him and taste
his lips that she’d missed so much.
    “ Mmm … that was good,” he
said and proceeded to swish his tongue to the side where the icing
lay. “You have to try this one.”
    I wanted to, but you beat
me to it.
    For the next twenty minutes they
sampled cupcakes and compared notes. Yasmine was trying to keep the
conversation only to the task at hand, and so far it worked. She
found herself a little more at ease with him. She wasn’t sure what
to expect, but he’d been a gentleman, which was his
nature.
    “ How many more do we
have?” she asked, taking a sip of water as Cannon stood at the
table grabbing two more cupcakes and setting them on the bistro
table in front of her.
    “ This is the last
chocolate one for the groom’s cake and there are two more to taste
for the bride’s cake. Think you can hang?”
    Yasmine laughed and patted her
stomach. “I think so. I’m actually ready for some real food
now.”
    “ Me too. I guess we ate
dessert first.” He laughed and took a bite of the cake. “This
chocolate mint flavor is good. I think we have a
winner.”
    She bit into hers. “You’re right. This
really is good. Let’s make it the second layer for the groom’s
cake,” she suggested, remembering what Sherika said about having a
different flavor besides plain chocolate.
    “ Sounds good to me.” He
checked it off on his list and pushed the plate aside, resting his
arms crossed in front of him on the table and leaning toward her.
“Never been much of a chocolate fan. I prefer caramel.”
    Yasmine almost choked on her cupcake
and lifted her head to meet his smoldering gaze. There was no
laughter in his words or on his face. Instead, she noted the
seriousness in his tone and the way his eyes examined her as if he
was reading her mind and liked what he read.
    “