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Chapter 29
Sammi
1:59 AM THREE YEARS AGO
1One of my heels slips from my foot, falling to the floor with an impossibly loudCLANGthat echoes through the silence.
“Whoops!” I say, trying to hold back my laughter.
“Shhhhh!” Lock whispers. “You’re gonna get us caught, mate!”
I laugh louder. “Oh no! Are you scared Mr. Williams?”
I hear my words slur slightly on his name, making me all too aware that I’ve drank a bit too much tonight.
From his giggling behind me, though, I’d say he has, as well.
We’d pretty much have to find ourselves here.
I feel a gust of cool air brush across my ass and realize my dress has hiked up. Lachlan, the gentleman that he is, clearly didn’t feel the need to mention it.
I reach back behind me with one hand, trying to pull it down and nearly falling through the window for my efforts.
“Hey,” Lock chimes in as Ibarelycatch myself. “Why are you trying to ruin my view?”
I snort laughter, lifting one leg over the window sill.
Screw it.
If I’m being honest, I kind of like that he’s checking me out right now.
My other leg joins the first, dangling down over the linoleum inside. Butterflies manifest in the pit of my stomach. It’s a farther drop than it looked from the outside.
“This was a terrible idea!” I say over my shoulder as I slip off my other heel.
It clatters to the aquarium floor.
“Shhhh!” Lock whispers, again through laughter. “And it wasyouridea.”
“Well, it was awful,” I say, this time remembering to be quiet.
“Do you want go back?” he asks.
“Absolutely not.”
I let go of the window, dropping quickly and less than gracefully into the aquarium below.
My landing is rough, and I turn to make sure he didn’t see, but his face, peering down at me and choking back a laugh, tells me otherwise.
“Well, let’s see how you do,” I say, my voice full of confidence even as I struggle to stand.
He laughs, disappearing from view for a moment before pulling himself up in one fluid motion.
He drops down beside me, landing with uncanny silence, crouching like a superhero.
I roll my eyes, scoffing. I can’t let him know it, but truthfully, I’m totally impressed.
The way this guy pounded shots of tequila tonight, I was expecting a full face-plant.
