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Even in the dim light her amusement was visible. “Are you getting shy now?”
“Maybe a little,” I teased, easing out from under the covers. Shit. I still had come all over my stomach. I swiped a shirt off the floor and discreetly cleaned it off as best I could.
I felt her eyes on me, slightly embarrassed that she probably could see the evidence of what I’d been up to. Couldn’t help it. She did this to me.
Baker crawled into bed, and I made the mistake of looking over at her. The sight of her there in my T-shirt had my body at full attention again.
What the hell? She turned me on. No point in hiding it.
I tossed the shirt on the floor and stalked to the chest of drawers, pulling out a pair of old sweatpants.
“I need some water. You want some?”
“Yeah.” I swore I heard disappointment in her voice now that I had some clothes on. Or maybe I just wanted to.
I hurried to the kitchen, rinsed off the rest of the mess on my stomach, and returned to the bedroom. Baker was propped against the headboard. A little more of her hair had worked loose from the knot it was pulled in.
This was where I wanted her.
My steps faltered at the thought. I shoved down the truth and forced the cocky swagger to the surface that I’d learned as a disguise.
Her eyes were all-knowing when they met mine.
She saw me.
She saw everything.Hopefully she didn’t hear everything too.
I unscrewed the cap on the water bottle and passed it to her. She took a drink, but I guzzled most of the liquid when she gave it back to me.
“Lights on or off?” I motioned toward the hallway.
“On.”
I rounded the foot of the bed and slid in beside her. “Come here.”
She hesitated, eyeing me warily before she crawled into my arms. I settled her head against my chest and stroked her hair, the finest silk between my fingers. Her breath was warm on my skin and when she slung her arm around me, something right clicked into place. Something I’d never felt.
“Want to talk about it?” I asked against the top of her head.
“No.” She clung to me a little tighter. I didn’t want her to hurt, but it gave me inordinate pleasure to know when she needed someone she’d come to me.
I kissed her hair and ran my hand up and down her spine. She sighed, her body already growing heavy with sleep.
“Holt?”
“Yeah, Easy?”
“Maybe we should forget the boundaries.”
Chapter Seven
Baker
“Baker.”
The sleep-roughened voice that spoke my name made me want to stay in my dream. I was in strong arms. Safe. Content.
“Baker.”
