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There was so much I yearned to say.
So much I desired him to hear.
Instead, I blinked and then everything went…
Black.
The next thing I knew, my eyes were flickering open from the bright, bold sun.
“Oh, God…” I moaned, dizzy and disoriented.
Instantly, I grabbed the pillow, and wrapped it around my throbbing head. Desperately trying to remember what happened last night.
All of a sudden, I heard, “Splitting headache?”
Startling me to sit straight up.
“See, Cherry,” Adrian reprimanded as our gazes connected. “That’s what happens when you drink your weight in liquor.” He was sitting in the armchair near his bed.
I couldn’t help but ask, “Have you been there all night?”
He nodded with a blazing fire in his regard.
For some reason, I looked down at my body, noticing I wasn’t wearing my dress, just his shirt.
“What happened?”
“You mean besides you throwing up on yourself?”
I grabbed my face. “Oh, God.” Suddenly mortified. “Where’s Cade?”
“Lucky for you, he crashed at Hayley’s last night.”
I fell back against his headboard, unable to hold myself up anymore. Feeling the relief of not getting caught with my best friend’s brother.
“I’m just going to sit here and die of humiliation.”
“Your dress is washed. Although, I do prefer my shirt on you.”
Peeking through my fingers, I questioned, “You took my dress off?”
“Mmm hmm. Don’t worry, Cherry. I looked but I didn’t touch.”
“Kill me now.” I squeezed my eyes shut, praying this was only dream and wasn’t actually happening.
I couldn’t look at him. All I wanted to do was disappear. Fade into the comforter as if I didn’t make an absolute ass of myself last night. I opened my mouth to say something, but quickly shut it, not knowing what to apologize for.
The sound of him shuffling across the room made me open my eyes.
“Here,” he coaxed from above me.
He was holding a glass of ice water and some buttered toast. I sluggishly sat up, grabbed the water, and gulped it down. Welcoming the cool sensation in my throat and stomach.
“Take it easy or you’ll make yourself sick.” His eyes bared an emotion I couldn’t quite place, hitting me like a freaking freight train.
“Oh my God.” It was all I needed for the memories to come back to me. “I walked in on you with some girl, didn’t I?”
“More like barged.”
