Bedmates Soulmates
CHAPTER 262

Damian ate his noodles quietly.

After breakfast, Kira stood up and was about to start clearing away the dishes when Austyn stopped her.

'Jesse, you're on clean-up duty,' he said to the doctor slouching in the chair, rubbing one hand over his belly.

'But I don't want to!' Jesse protested. 'These hands are meant to hold a scalpel, not a sponge. I've never washed a plate in my life.'

He sounded proud of this particular achievement. 'In fact, I've never stepped foot in a kitchen. before. How can you ask the chief physician of Stamford General to wash dishes? You do it.' 'Now that's one spoiled man-child,' Kira thought. 'I bet he has never held a broom, either."

She sat down.

Jesse saw that. 'Kira, back me up here. Isn't the kitchen a woman's domain? That includes doing the dishes, right?'

Kira rolled her eyes. 'Any person, man or woman, can wash the dishes if they have two hands.

She took a page from the doctor's playbook, leaned back in the chair and crossed her arms. 'I cooked; you didn't. So now it's your turn to do the dishes.'

*But Damian and Austyn didn't cook, either. Why can't they do the dishes?'

'Because they already helped. One set the table and the other brought out the dishes. You're the only one who did nothing.'

Jesse stared at her, speechless.

Kira smiled at him. 'Come on. Time's a-wastin'. Chop chop!'

Jesse didn't want to move.

Kira taunted him. 'Are you scared you'll do a bad job? Scared to let others know the genius doctor can't even handle a simple dish-washing job?" Jesse fell for it. 'Who says I can't? I'll show you!"

He stood up, pushed back his chair, rolled up his sleeves and marched into the kitchen.

Thirty seconds later, a loud crashing sound came from the kitchen.

Followed by another, and then another.

Kira shook her head and sighed, feeling sorry for her host.

Austyn remained silent.

Damian made a mental note to go shopping later.

There probably wouldn't be many intact dishes left after Jesse was done.

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Kira sneezed when she got in the taxi.

Austyn scrunched his nose, his germaphobia acting up.

But he still touched her forehead with one hand. 'You have a cold.'

Then he added, 'Serves you right."

Kira shrugged and ignored him.

She was feeling a little dizzy, but she didn't think she was sick.

"Take the day off. Go home and rest."

'I'm fine,' she said. 'I don't want to go home. I have work to do."

Austyn scowled. 'Work can wait.'

Kira offered him an ingratiating smile. 'I'm fine, really. I took a couple of days off last week. can't do that again. The manager's going to kill me." *Paul?'

'Uh-huh.'

Austyn took out his phone and typed a message. 'I told him you're not coming to work today.

Kira stared at him, open-mouthed. 'But you...you can't do this!'

Austyn ignored her.

The driver looked at the squabbling couple in the backseat and smiled. 'Where are you two lovebirds headed off to?"

Kira blushed.

She and Austyn were not lovebirds!

She opened her mouth to explain, but Austyn got there before her. 'Office building of the M Group.'

"Oob, that's a big company. Like, the biggest in Stamford. Are your guys working there?"

The driver, who didn't spend much time on tabloid websites, did not realise he had the M Group's president in his car.

Austyn didn't like how chatty the driver was.

He was about to tell the man to shut up and drive when Kira grabbed his hand.

'Don't be mean to the driver,' she said with her eyes.

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Austyn held his tongue.

The driver started the engine.