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“Sexy…” I stretched my arms to let the fabric dangle. “In your hockey jersey?”
“Do you have any idea how sexy it is when a girl’s wearing your jersey and nothing else?”
I chuckled. “No. I guess not.”
“Well it’s a good thing we’re friends then,” he sighed wistfully. “Because otherwise…”
He left the sentence tantalizingly unfinished, as I bounced onto the bed. The room was warmer than before, but still chilly. Already I missed the steam of the shower.
“Hey,” I admonished, slapping his hand playfully as he reached for a bag of chips. “Quit hogging all the snacks!”
We feasted together, devouring everything Axel had ‘negotiated’ until only torn, crinkled wrappers were left. I hadn’t realized how hungry I was. After the last game we’d skipped out before dinner, and lunch seemed half a lifetime ago.
Eventually I crawled beneath the blankets, which were warm from his body heat. Our legs touched, and I wondered if he were still wearing his towel…
“I keep trying to reach the others,” Axel said, tapping his phone’s screen. “But no service. Think they’ll be worried about us?”
“Nah,” I shook my head. “They won’t be home for hours yet. And when they get there, they won’t even notice we didn’t make it back. They’ll probably go straight to bed.”
“True enough,” Axel agreed. He set the phone back on the night table. “The last thing they’d expect is that we stopped to crawl half-naked under the blankets in some seedy motel room.”
I flipped over to face him in the bed. Axel was already laughing.
“That is not what we did,” I protested.
“But that’s exactly what we did.”
My first instinct was to roll my eyes at him. But he had a point.
“Okay, maybe technically,” I agreed. “But—“
“But what?”
I stopped talking, and for several moments we just stared at each other in the almost-silence. The wind still howled, and the sleet clicked noisily against our room’s window. But other than that, it was just us, face to face, huddled for warmth beneath the blankets. Like two friends having a sleepover.
Still, I couldn’t help thinking about Axel’s ‘sexy’ comment. My whole body smelled like him now, even more so under the covers. Silently I wondered how many other girls had worn his jersey, and nothing else.
“Well, I guess we should get some sleep,” I finally sighed.
“Yeah. Guess so.”
“So how are we gonna work this?”
His gorgeous blue eyes narrowed in confusion. “Work what?”
“Should we build a pillow wall between us?” I smirked. “I mean, it’s an awfully small bed.”
Axel’s expression was one of mild amusement. “Want a pillow wall? Go for it.”
God, he was so fucking gorgeous! His cheekbones, his mouth, his lips… I’d never realized how symmetrically flawless his face actually was. I mean, obviously he was well beyond handsome. But as his friend, I’d simply never picked these things out before.
“Better make it high though,” he added. “And I don’t think you have enough pillows.”
I’d seen women literally melt around him, and beautiful women, too. They’d go right up to him coolly confident, then transform into nervous wrecks in the face of his intimidating good looks. I’d watched them walk away, stammering, having made complete fools of themselves.
And I never really understood it until now.
“Still, if I wanted to break our little ‘barrier’ here,” Axel went on, drawing an imaginary line on the bed between us. “Do you really think a pillow wall would stop me?”
