It is too early to deal with any of this.
Not to mention, I fell asleep without brushing my teeth last night and… yikes.
“Give me a minute,” I said, ducking into the bathroom before tossing the blanket into the hallway.
It was not a minute.
I took my time showering and getting ready for the day before I had to face him—and the flaw in my plan.
I’d forgotten to grab my clothes first.
Cracking the door, I peeked into the hall to see the blanket was gone. That left just the towel. I secured it around myself and eased the door open again.
To find Rhys waiting in the hall directly across from me.
“We need to talk,” he said.
“We really don’t.”
He crossed his arms, highlighting the disadvantage I was at since he was fully dressed for the day while I was exposed—literally if the towel didn’t stay in place. A muscle ticked in his clenched jaw. “Sorry, did I make that sound like a question? It wasn’t.”
“There’s nothing to talk about,” I said, lifting my chin. Neutral face. Neutral tone. I was proud of myself for that, even if I followed it up by trying to flee to the bedroom.
Unsurprisingly, that escape was thwarted when he followed me. “Is that so?”
“Yes. We both knew what last night was.”
“And what was that?”
I wasn’t sure why he was performing a mini-interrogation. I could only assume he was fishing around to make sure we were on the same page without bluntly putting it out there to hurt my feelings. Especially if he’d joined me in the guest room while mostly asleep. He might’ve woken up to me in his bed that morning and thoughtIclimbed in withhim.
“It was fun,” I said with a smile that wasn’t forced since it was the truth.
“That’s it?”
“Reallyfun?” I tried.
He just blinked at me.
Ooookay.
Maybe I should’ve gone withneat.
I gestured toward the closet. “I need to get dressed.”
He still didn’t move or take the subtle hint.
“Which means you need to get out.”
He didn’t take that not-so-subtle hint, either.
Fine, whatever.
I walked into the closet to get changed in there as I spoke. I hadn’t unpacked my stuff to intermix with his copious amounts of black, gray, blue, more black, and flannel, and I bent to find some clothes.
Maybe it was cowardly to talk when we weren’t face to face, but I didn’t care. That was exactly what I did.
Anything to make the moment less awkward.
