“We need to talk.”
“Okay,” I softly said. “Now or in the morning?”
Lucas took the soap and started to move it over my body. I wanted to moan when his hands went over my breasts, but I forced myself not to.
“After the shower. Turn around,” he commanded.
Doing as he said, I leaned against his body as he pulled me to him. His soapy hand moved between my legs and lifted one up and propped it against the seat in the shower. It only took him rubbing my clit a few times, and I was pressing my hand over my mouth and coming once again. His arm tightened around my waist as my entire body felt like it was going to melt to the ground.
“Let’s finish up in here. I’m exhausted, and I want to hold you while I fall asleep.”
Turning, I rinsed off and then watched as he quickly soaped himself up. We both got out of the shower and dried off. After we each slipped on some pajamas, we crawled up into the bed, and I braced myself for what was going to come next. Instead of letting him just go for it, I spoke first.
“I’m sorry for the spell I put on you for the good luck. I just really wanted you to win a hand or two.”
He laughed. “I won them all after losing the first few. I’m not mad, but if the guys find out, they’ll accuse me of cheating. It was just for tonight, right?”
I nodded. “We’ll keep it between us.”
He winked and my stomach flipped. How could my body want him again? I was the one obsessed, it seemed.
“We do have to talk about the spell you put on Shawn.”
Shaking my head, I replied, “I didn’t put the spell on him. Kristin did.”
He frowned. “Is she a witch too?”
“All of us have a little witch in us. I think, by helping her with the spell, I might have made it a bit stronger. Sarah mentioned that when I put the spell on you. Something about a spell being strong when a coven of witches performed it. But a small part of me thinks Kristin might have the gift. Anyway, I used a smudge stick as well. A white sage and lavender, and that is known to boost the potency of the spell as well as spark passion. It’s also an aphrodisiac.”
Lucas ran his fingers through my hair. “That explains his need to get to Kristin. But it seemed more…sexual.”
“That,” I said with conviction, “I blame on Kristin. I gave her the spell to say, and she had to repeat it seven times. The last time, she changed it.”
He looked weary but asked, “To what?”
“Well,” I began as I twisted my hands in my lap, “at the time, I thought it was kind of funny, but now I’m thinking it wasn’t.”
Closing his eyes, he asked, “What did she say?”
“She was only supposed to say, ‘In your mind, you will see me,’ but instead she said, ‘In your mind, you will see me naked and inside me.’”
Lucas gagged. “I didn’t need that visual.”
“Right? That’s what I was saying. Gross! Anyway, I honestly didn’t think anything of it.”
“Considering all Shawn wanted to do was get to Kristin—hold her, touch her—yeah, I’m pretty sure that was what he was seeing. And then the moment that shall not be named happened.”
I pressed my mouth together in a tight line so I wouldn’t laugh.
He shook his head. “What’s going to happen when he finally sees her? He wouldn’t…force her, would he?”
“No!” I quickly said. “Of course not. I mean, I don’t honestly know what he’s going to do, but I don’t think it will be anything like that. He may just be infatuated with her.”
Lucas frowned but nodded. “Okay, that might not be so bad.”
“And if he is paying her attention like that, then Kristin will give him the attention he needs, and all will be perfect! Everyone will be holly jolly for Christmas!”
He shot me a look that said he really didn’t believe it would be that simple, and I reached for his hand. “Let’s just see what happens. If something went wrong, then…”
