Katie's POV

Chapter 175

Katie's POV

“Am I supposed to believe you are shy?”

I was so startled by Cephus's Voice that here I dropped the capsicum I’d been fidgeting with. It rolled across the bench, and Cephus caught it with one hand while he continued dicing its unlucky sibling with the other.

“I guess you wouldn’t,” I admitted, “but if any situation was going to make me feel that way… I mean, we’ve gone from you having me dragged out If bed to trying to cook with me?”

“You’ve got to roll with the challenges life presents you sometimes, Katie,” said Cephus, rolling the second capsicum into the path of his knife.

“Are you talking about me here or you?”

“Both of us, for once.” His expression visibly dulled. It struck me then just how much more animated he had become since we had first met.

It was just a handful of hours but there was someone behind the mafia man front he was slowly letting me see, whether by choice or unconsciously I did not know.

It bothered disappearing again.

It was messing wi