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Shaking my head, I make my way to the door, grabbing my keycard off the dresser as I go by. In the hallway, I glance behind me when another door closes heavily. I’m sure it’s probably Danny, considering my luck isn’t that great lately, but I’m pleasantly surprised to see Cricket emerge. I actually stop in my tracks. Did she just come from Danny’s hotel room?
“Hey! I didn’t realize you were on this floor,” she says, a warm smile on her coral colored lips that makes my dick twitch in my pants. I’m a horrible friend, because all I can wonder right now is if that color will stay on her plump lips or rub off and leave a ring around my cock.
Shit! Now I’m getting hard. In the hallway. Right in front of her.
Grandma, Grandma, Grandma, Grandma.
Grandma having sex.
Yep. That does it.
Consider my erection squashed, probably for life.
“Oh, uh, yeah,” I finally spit out when she’s standing directly in front of me. “Room 410.”
She smiles again, seeming to find my stumbling and stammering charming, or at the very least, entertaining. Great. She probably thinks I’m cute. You know, like a puppy. A friendly puppy.
My eyes do a quick scan of her outfit, my brain short circuiting and stopping on her top. Then, they do another perusal, this time a much slower one, taking her in as if for the first time. Cricket is wearing tight, dark skinny jeans that hug her perfect ass, a black top that dips down low in the front, giving just a hint of cleavage, and a pair of black heels. Not too tall, but with just enough to add a few inches of height. She’s carrying a black clutch thingy and her long brown hair hangs down in big waves. It looks soft and silky and makes me want to run my fingers through it.
Now is definitely not the time though.
Glancing over her shoulder, I try to mentally count the doors, trying to remember which one Danny went into. Was it five down or six? Cricket glances back, trying to figure out what I’m looking at. “Is everything okay?”
“Oh! Yeah, sure. You’re…down the hall?”
She nods. “421.”
I’m sure he went down five doors, which would mean he’s in 419. He’s right next door to Cricket. Should I tell her? Probably. That’s definitely not a surprise she’d enjoy. I nod toward the elevators, ready to get the hell out of this hallway and away from the possibility of Danny coming out and finding us. It only takes a few seconds before a car arrives to take us down to the lobby. When we’re inside, I decide to go ahead and let her know of her neighbor.
“So, I know you probably figured out who stopped me in the lobby.”
“Uh, yeah. Sorry to just bail on ya, but I wasn’t hanging around for that reunion. I mean, I know I’ll have to see him eventually, but I’d rather it not be today. Not looking like I just spent four hours on a plane and another two in a car.”
I glance her way, struck by her comment. Does she not know how incredibly beautiful she looks? Right now, all dolled up, sure, but even before that. Earlier, when she was sort of messy from work and the flight, she was the most stunning woman I’d ever seen. And I know I wasn’t the only one to notice either. At least two guys waiting behind us at the car rental counter had their eyes on her. It made me a little crazy.
The car arrives in the lobby and we step out to a slew of guests waiting to be whisked away to their floors. We make our way through the crowd and head toward the front doors of the hotel. “Do you want us to drive over?” I ask, ready to head over to the valet desk.
Cricket shakes her head. “No, let’s walk,” she says as she heads off in the direction of Slim’s.
It doesn’t take me long to catch up, my legs considerably longer than hers. “Are you sure? You’re wearing heels.”
I don’t miss the way she rolls her eyes under the night sky. “I wear heels every day, Rueben. I’ll be fine,” she reassures.
Still, I make sure to walk at a slower pace than normal just so she doesn’t have to walk fast in those shoes to keep up. Shoving my hands into my pockets, I jump back to the conversation we started earlier in the elevator. “Anyway, so after you went up to your room, Danny and I got on the elevator together. He ended up getting off on our floor too.”
“Your floor…as in the fourth floor,” she says a little slowly, as if catching where I’m going with my statement.
“Yep,ourfloor.”
“Okay,” she replies casually, though I can hear a hint of uneasiness in her tone.
We stop at the intersection and wait for the cross walk to change. “I’m pretty sure he’s in room 419,” I blurt out just as the light changes to walk.
I start to move, but realize Cricket hasn’t. I glance back and find her standing on the curb, her eyes closed. Before I can say a word, those beautiful green eyes open and lock on mine. I feel the earth tremor beneath my shoes, a wave of longing sweeping through my body. I almost rush back to the curb and take her in my arms, but before I can do that, she steps off and approaches. “Well, that’s par for the course,” she says as she walks past me, leaving me standing in the middle of the street.
The light changes and a horn honks. I turn around and rush to the opposite side to where Cricket is waiting, and we continue our slow walk toward Slim’s. “Sorry to have to tell you that, but I didn’t want you to be surprised.”
“No, I appreciate it, really,” she says, reaching over and resting her hand on my arm. It’s meant as a comforting and appreciative gesture, one given by friends, for friends, but her touch does something to me. It’s like a shock of electricity and bourbon at the same time. Cricket pulls her hand away quickly, and I can’t help but wonder if she felt something too.
