Chapter 640

"In the past, you cooked for me, but I didn't cooked for you yet." The first sentence carried a hint of intimacy, so Charles naturally followed with the second, hoping to keep his feelings from being too obvious and scaring her away. Upon hearing Charles's words, especially when he mentioned cooking for her to taste, Naomi felt a flutter in her heart. There was a subconscious resistance at first, feeling it was not quite appropriate. But when she heard Charles's follow-up, that resistance dissolved. Indeed, she cooked for Charles before, so his remark was perfectly reasonable. A smile spread across Naomi's face as she responded, "Sure." They were friends, good friends. It was like when she was in college, hanging out with Amelia, Sean, and Charles, going camping, and having fun. When they needed to cook something, Charles would pitch in and share it with her, and she would eat it. It did not make sense to refuse then, nor did it now. Hearing her calm acceptance without any h