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Eleven
Abreath away from laying his lips on Sabrina’s for another taste, the knob turned back and forth on the front door like someone was attempting to barge in.
“I know you’re in there!” came a voice from the other side.
“Reid,” Sabrina breathed against Flynn’s lips.
“I don’t hear anything,” he murmured, regretting giving Reid the passcode to his penthouse floor.
She flashed him a brief smile, but he detected worry in her eyes. “I should...”
She backed away like he’d caught fire, and damn if he didn’t feel like he had. That experimental revisit to the Valentine’s Day kiss had proved her theory 100 percent wrong.
They were attracted to each other. Either by proximity or convenience, or Sab’s pointing out that they were single for the first time at the same time. Didn’t matter why.
Now that he’d had a taste, he wanted more.
“You got a girl in there or something?” Gage shouted through the door as the knob jiggled again.
Sabrina’s wide-eyed panic would’ve been cute if Flynn wasn’t so turned on his brain was barely functioning.
“I was out with them tonight. Apparently they didn’t like that I left them unsupervised.” Thumbing her bottom lip, he sent a final longing look at her mouth before letting her dash out of the kitchen. She checked her hair and face in the mirror in the living room and he had to smile when she wrinkled her nose, worried.
“I look like I’ve been making out,” she whispered.
“Hell yeah, you do.” He couldn’t hide his pride any more than she could hide those warm, rosy cheeks or the flush on her neck. “Gimme a second. I’ll kill them, we’ll hide the bodies and then we’ll return to what we were doing.”
With a wink to Sabrina, Flynn jerked open the door and blocked the crack with his body. “What do you want?”
Reid held up a six-pack of beer with one bottle missing as Gage held up the missing bottle. “We thought you might want company.”
“And we want to know what happened with Sab...rin...a...” Reid’s voice trailed off as Flynn widened the gap in the doorway to reveal Sabrina standing in the center of his foyer.
“Hey, guys!” she chirped. “I made cookies. Just like the old days!”
Reid swore and Gage ducked his head to hide a laugh.
“Come in. It’s just cookies.” And kissing. But they’d officially shut down that last part.
“Hello, Sabrina,” Reid said like he was addressing his arch nemesis. “Beer?”
“No thanks. I’m going to bed. I’m exhausted.”
Reid grinned and Sabrina backtracked, making herself appear guiltier in the process.
“I’m staying here. Temporarily. I’m staying in the guest room. My pipes are leaking and I don’t have clean water. Plus, I need a shower, so I’ll do that. In the guest bathroom, obviously.” An uncomfortable giggle. “Not anywhere near Flynn’s bedroom. I mean, not that it would matter.”
Flynn shook his head and she gave him an apologetic shrug. He was going to catch hell from his best friends the second she fled the room, which she did three seconds after ensuring the oven was off.
Once she was ensconced in her bedroom and the shower cranked on in the attached bath, Flynn grabbed one of Reid’s beers and headed for the living room.
“Well, well...” Gage, who’d helped himself to a cookie, swaggered in with Reid on his heels. “Sabrina has leaky pipes and your suggestion was for her to move in with you?”
“What would you have done?” Flynn asked, tipping the bottle.
“Called a plumber?” Reid suggested before having a seat on the sofa.
“I’m going to do that tomorrow. As well as rip her landlord a new one for neglecting her needs.”
