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“Get you off? Really, Archer, I think we should eat.”
Archer shifted, moving through the water as he deposited me at the other end of the tub. Then he got to his feet inone magnificent move, and the water cascading down over him showcased his glorious body to absolute perfection.
“Stop it.”
“I’m not doing anything.” I batted my lashes just to fuck with him. “It’s not my fault you think I’m pretty.”
Archer grabbed a towel off the rack and did his best to cover his erection. “You’re going to pay for this later.”
“Promise?”
“Yes.” He walked to the door of the en suite but then stopped to look back at where I lounged with my chin resting on the edge of the tub. “The father you’d like to hit is gonna spank your ass.”
I canted said ass up out of the water and aimed a cheeky grin his way, calling out after him, “It can’t wait!”
TWENTY-SIX
archer
WITH THE CURTAINS drawn, the room was still dark when I woke the next morning. Somehow Preston had managed to turn himself sideways in his sleep so that his head was on my stomach and his feet were close to dangling off the side of the bed.
My lips quirked as I watched his back rise and fall with slow, heavy breaths. I didn’t know how that position was comfortable, but it felt good to have any kind of contact. I didn’t need my own side of the bed when I was with someone, and Preston curling up to me in any way was a welcome thing.
I fought the urge to run my fingers through his hair as I watched him sleep, not wanting to wake him just yet. It still felt early, like we’d only just fallen asleep after spending hours tangled up in each other. Preston’s words played in my mind, that it was one of the best nights of his life, and though I hadn’t said it at the time, I felt the same. He made me feel alive, like before him I’d only been going through the motions. I thought I’d been doing all right, staying busy with work and the Elysium, especially since Serena moved out, but I realized now that I’d been missing something vital.
Preston.
I’d even moved around my schedule to work from the suite today instead of going into the office, something I never did.
And Preston?—
I sat up with a gasp, reaching for my phone on the nightstand to check the time. Preston groaned as he slid from his position on my stomach. Groggy eyes looked up at me.
“What’s wrong?” he murmured, curling up beside me on his own pillow.
Blinking, I did a double take at the time. I never slept in, and the clock read a little after nine thirty.“Shit, you have to go. What time’s your first class?”
In all my awesome planning, I’d neglected to remember that hehad to go to school.
Oh my God.It still wasn’t clicking that I was spending time with someone incollege.
Preston’s eyes stayed closed as he lay on his side and reached out to pull me closer. “Doesn’t matter. Come here.”
“Yes, it fucking matters. You’re not missing school for me.”
Those words made me cringe, but they were the truth.
“Too late,” Preston said, running his hand up my chest.
I caught his wrist. “Absolutely not. You’re going.”
“I’ve already got it covered.”
“How?”
“I have someone in each class taking notes. It’s fine.” He tried to pull me down to him again, but I resisted.
“Preston, if we’re going to do this, you can’t skip school, or this ends.”
