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“You’re going all out, huh?” I mumble.
“Only for you.”
He brings his hand to my cheek, tilting my head up until our gazes cross. He’s grinning. My face is on fire. His presence is all-consuming, I swear. It sucks up the air and all my willpower. My saving grace is my shame. Alex might be all blasé about the incident, but I’m still mortified.
“Very generous, but I’ll have to pass. Not sure it would help my mortification.”
I take one step back, and then another.
“Are you flying out to LA this evening?” I ask, remembering he’s got a panel scheduled tomorrow.
“Nah, tomorrow morning at four o’clock.”
“Aww, that sounds like hell.”
He shrugs. “When I’m filming, I wake up at four most days, no big deal. I just have to go to bed early.”
“No bonfires planned tonight, so you’ll get plenty of sleep.”
“Wasn’t the bonfire that kept me up late yesterday.”
“Oh, what was it then?” I have a sinking feeling that I’m digging myself into a hole, but what the heck?
“Someone’s shenanigans.”
“Silly someone. Threatening your beauty sleep.” I laugh nervously. “Well, I’m going. I need to finish a painting for my mom.”
He nods, pointing to his soaked clothes. “I’m going to shower.”
“I’ll leave you to it.”
Swirling on my heels, I head in the direction of my bungalow.
“If you change your mind about the stripping offer, you know where I live,” Alex calls after me, and I nearly trip over my own feet. Hot damn.
Once I’m inside my bungalow, Alice calls. I pick up right away.
“Hey!” she greets. Pippa’s voice comes through as well. “Hey, baby sis. How’s camp?”
“Lovely.”
“Listen, we were thinking about having that home-spa thingy Thursday evening the week you come back, at Ava and Sebastian’s house,” Alice informs me.
“Sure, that sounds great,” I reply.
“We’re going to pool together our nail polishes, masks, the whole Shangri-la,” Pippa continues.
“I’ll scour my beauty cabinet and bring everything I find.” I slump on my bed, already making a mental inventory. “Just so I’m up-to-date, do we have another master goal except for convincing Ava?”
“Nah, that’s all,” Alice confirms.
Ava is one stubborn woman, but no one else could go toe-to-toe with Sebastian. But between us girls, we’ll tackle her. I know we will
. When we put our minds to it, there isn’t anything we can’t do.
“So beyond lovely, what can you tell us about the camp?” Pippa continues.
Crap. Of course, she wouldn’t be satisfied with a one-word answer. I know I wouldn’t.
