CHAPTER 15

ELODIE

“Have you eaten dinner?” I questioned.

“No.”

He laid me on the couch and slipped out of his suit jacket. Placing the jacket over my body, he loosened his tie.

We were in the little house I made in my large house. The first place in my home that he had coffee with me.

The scent of his jacket hit my nostrils, and I slowly pulled it up to sniff it. He smelled of a heady mix of musk, woodsmoke, and the forest after rain.

It was as though the very essence of nature had taken human form—intoxicating and irresistible.

I rubbed the jacket on my cheek, a smile tugging on my lips as I kept on inhaling.

“You seem to like my jacket very much,” Tedros said.

Noticing that I had been doing that in front of him, I almost jumped off the sofa.

“No!” I denied. “I was only sniffing to see what perfume you used.”

“I don't wear perfume.”

Oh, yes, he doesn't.

“I don't know about that,” I muttered, lying.

“You do.” He arched his brows, turning around. “You didn't give me perfume when you b