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“I wouldn’t worry if you did,” I tell her honestly. “I’ll be up and out of the house by seven tomorrow. We have some unofficial team weight training times before the school year starts. So feel free to look around when you get up in the morning. I have regular breakfast stuff… Cereal, bread, eggs. But if there’s anything else you want, I can bring you to the store tomorrow afternoon and we can grab things.”
“I’m sure I’ll be fine. Thank you, Justin.”
I have to leave this room before her smile convinces me to do something stupid, like kiss her upturned lips.
Watching her with my younger siblings and parents truly planted firmly in me—I do not look at Lennox Campbell as a sister. She fits in with my family, of course. She lived with them for nearly a year.
Dinner tonight was almost like she’d come home from a semester away. Everyone gravitated toward her.
And seeing the smile and joy on her face only made my attraction toward her grow.
She is so fucking beautiful when she smiles.
Hell, she’s fucking beautiful right now, her face once again etched with exhaustion.
To hell with the urge to kiss her.
Right now, I just want to wrap her in my arms, tuck her tight against my body, and let her completely relax in what I can give her.
Instead, I’ll be sleeping alone, right down the hall.
“Good night, Justin.”
I nod once and take a step back into the hall. “G’night, Lennox.”
I turn on my heel and leave her to shut the bedroom door between us.
CHAPTER THREE
LENNOX
I’ve been squatting at Justin’s for three weeks.
In that time, we’ve nearly had opposite schedules.
He’s often gone first thing in the morning when I wake. When I leave for the gym in the afternoon, he’s sometimes walking in for a bite to eat but usually he’s heading out to the arena for his own team practices shortly after.
Then there was last weekend, when I was with the girls for a team retreat in Vail, and next weekend, the hockey team will be traveling to Alaska for their season opener.
This weekend will be the first solid set of days he and I will be truly in one place together, at the same time.
And I must say…
I’m a little nervous.
When he asked if I had plans, I half expected him to tell me to make some. Does he want to bring a girl home? I do wonder why he hasn’t yet.
There has to be a reason why a muscled Adonis like him doesn’t have a woman in his bed at least one night of the week.
He’s only twenty-eight.
That’s, like…peak time for a man.
Or maybe he wants to spend the weekend helping me find a place to live.
I have to be honest.
I haven’t tried very hard.
