The Chocolate Thief
““Do you think I should pay you a commission?” Sylvain asked wonderingly. “Having you get caught stealing my chocolates is the best thing for business—other than myself, of course—that has ever happened to me.”
She gave him an aggrieved look.
He pressed his lips together in amusement and led her to his apartment, stopping to pick up a baguette at the boulangerie. She watched him enviously. He did that so easily, as if it was as natural to him as breathing to stop in a bakery and pick up a baguet...te on the way home. Which, of course, it was.
“They just came out of the oven.” He held it out to her to share the pleasure. She pulled off a glove and closed her hand over it, feeling the warmth of the long, thin loaf through the small square of paper the baker had twisted around it.
He broke an end off and handed it to her, crackling and warm. She smiled as he broke off another bite for himself. He smiled back. “Nothing like catching the loaves when they just come out of the oven.”MoreLess
She gave him an aggrieved look.
He pressed his lips together in amusement and led her to his apartment, stopping to pick up a baguette at the boulangerie. She watched him enviously. He did that so easily, as if it was as natural to him as breathing to stop in a bakery and pick up a baguet...te on the way home. Which, of course, it was.
“They just came out of the oven.” He held it out to her to share the pleasure. She pulled off a glove and closed her hand over it, feeling the warmth of the long, thin loaf through the small square of paper the baker had twisted around it.
He broke an end off and handed it to her, crackling and warm. She smiled as he broke off another bite for himself. He smiled back. “Nothing like catching the loaves when they just come out of the oven.”MoreLess
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