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She shot up, pulling the blanket to make sure she was completely covered. Shock quickly turned to disgust when his gaze settled on her guest.
“Morning, Cal. Do you think you could give us a minute?” Finn drawled.
“Seriously?” Cal hissed. “This is why you left me to learn from your sous douche?”
Finn sat up, his bare chest for all to see. “Why is Chris a douche?”
“I can’t look at this.” He slammed the door and yelled from the other side, “You’re damn lucky Mark’s not home.”
She turned and searched out every inch of Finn’s face—the crinkles at the corners of his eyes, the two “beauty” marks beneath his left ear. Finn. Her friend. Her lover. Her disaster waiting to happen.
“So much for sneaking out,” he muttered.
She willed her lip to stop quivering. Tears threatened to flood her eyes. From fear? From happiness? From guilt? She was too overwhelmed to even process her emotions.
“Hey, what’s that face for?”
She’d never been able to hide anything from him, and she hated that. It was as if he could read her mind.
“It’s the morning after.” She traced her finger over his chin. “We really did it.” She blew out a long, hard breath. “Did we really just overlook almost twenty years of friendship and have mindless monkey sex?”
He gave her the trademark Finn grin. The one that never failed to settle her down. “We better have, because checking items off my fantasy list last night was the most fun I’ve had in a long time.” He paused and contemplated his words. “Actually, the most fun ever.”
“I’m serious.” She pushed into him. “How are you feeling about all this?”
He exhaled, his grin fading to a thin smile.
Initiating the talk about feelings wasn’t the smartest thing she’d ever done. But she needed to know where he stood.
“If you’re asking if I regret what we did last night,” he said, “then, no. I don’t regret one single minute of it.”
Her heart fluttered and the aching knot in her stomach eased a little. “Even if I didn’t fulfill my promise? I was supposed to seduce you. Not the other way around.”
“Hopefully, we’ll have plenty more opportunities for you to fulfill that promise.”
Hesitation darkened his features. Did he really think she was finished with him?
He smoothed a hand over her bottom. “I didn’t really give you an opportunity to fulfill your promise. I sort of took over. As soon as I spotted the spatula, I had my own agenda.”
“You did have a very specific vision last night.” Palpitations thumped hard against her chest at the thought of his hand making contact with her ass. Who knew that could feel so amazing? Yesterday, a spatula was the rubber thing she used to mix the Kraft dinner. But today, she had a whole new appreciation for kitchen equipment.
“Well, it was something I’d been fantasizing about for a very long time.” His hand rubbed her cheek. “How does it feel back here?” He reached around and laid his hand on her bottom, taking ownership of her body as he pulled her closer.
Surprisingly, it felt wonderful. A satisfying full-body ache, a physical reminder of their time together. But her biggest question was, did she do his fantasy justice?
“Did the real thing live up to the fantasy?” She bit her bottom lip waiting for his response.
He reached out and stroked her cheek. “It was even better.”
She let out a soft sigh, expelling a breath she hadn’t realized she was holding in. “Good. Me, too.”
“So what are we going to do about Cal?” Finn folded the blanket at his waist and leaned back against the headboard. And just like that, he’d brought them back to reality. “Do you think he’ll tell Mark?”
“No. Not if I ask him to keep quiet. But do you see how I have no privacy? He just barges in anytime without knocking. Ali did the same thing.”
Not that she’d ever had anything for them to see. There were no unexpected guests or compromising positions. Until this morning. Annoyance overwhelmed her, raising her body temperature.
“You might consider locking the door…”
