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I am way too fucking tipsy for this.
“Don’t be stingy, sis. What are those, tape-ins?” she insisted, pushing the issue.
“I don’t have any extensions, this is just my fucking hair. Why is this even a conversation?”
Her gaze flicked to the top of my head, then my face.
She didn’t believe me.
But I wasn’t about to prove shit.
“You don’t have to get defensive,” she said, still wearing that same creepy grin.
I narrowed my eyes. “I’m not getting defensive, I’m getting ready to call on Jesus because you’re acting like you want to wear my damn skin.”
“Jessica. I saidgoodnight.”
Orion’s voice behind me was lowkey comforting. At least his presence meant I wasn’t witnessing this weird shit by myself.
“I’mgoing.” Jessica smirked at him, biting her lip before she looked back to me. “And goodnight to you as well, Nalani.”
“Who is the oddball chick?” I asked once she’d walked off. “And why is she coming out of your room?”
Instead of answering, he pulled the door open wider, gesturing for me to come inside.
Onlyout of curiosity did I obey that directive and the first thing I did was take a deep breath in.
It didn’tsmelllike sex in here.
“I’m not doing the open marriage thing,” I said, turning to face Orion.
He’d closed the door behind us, but hadn’t stepped back into the main area of the room yet. “What makes you think I’m suggesting you should?”
“Yourhead of marketingcoming out of your room in booty shorts the night before we get married,” I explained, shaking my head. “With a glass of wine and a smug look. WhatshouldI assume?”
“That I’m a man of my word and I already told you; I don’t fuck women I’m not married to. Did you think I was just saying that just to say it?”
“I think you say whatever you want,” I answered.
“Okay, so let me make myself clear again,” he said, fully stepping up to me. He was shirtless, which definitely did not help his “I am not fucking that woman” claims, but I was distracted from that by lots of deep caramel skin, and thick arms, and the fact that he smelled quite good. “I do not fuck women I am not married to. Including you.”
He smirked after that statement, making me wonder if I was giving off a vibe.
Alcohol did have a tendency to put me in a certain…mood.
And at this point… I probably wouldn’t have said no.
I shook my hair back over my shoulders, so I could look him right in the face as I asked, “Then what am I doing here in your room?”
“Come on. Let me show you.”
He moved past me, to a set of big double doors that at first glance I’d assumed were windows. He pushed them open though, revealing a covered balcony space before he looked back, motioning with his head for me to follow him.
“It’s snowing.”
“Barely, right now.”
I crossed my arms. “It’s cold, and you don’t have a shirt on.”
