Chapter 61: S5 Cain: I'm Game

Cain Beckham

Five minutes later, the first of seven courses arrives.

The waitstaff of Jake's catering business serves a plated amuse-bouche, which consists of thinly sliced pears with pieces of softened blue cheese. The dish has been topped off with chopped nuts.

Cain's inner wolf does a silent victory howl in his head. Not because Claire likes pears and blue cheese, but because it's a dish they used to eat in bed after an evening of extended sex. Yeah, this is just the thing he needs to keep her head and thoughts where he wants them - on him.

By the time the second and third courses arrive, caramelized apples and hazelnut wafers, Claire has downed one martini and is working on a second.

Now that the main course is here, he'll have to find a way to slow down her drinking and get some food in her, or risk the evening being cut short.

"How's the fish?" He scoops a fork of green beans with almond slivers. "Is it as mouthwatering as the grilled king salmon at Daniel's?"