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My heart squeezes as my sister, Anja, flits through my mind. A wave of emotion hits. “Listen, I have to go, but I’ll be in touch regarding Sunday. What time is the wedding?”
“Ten in the morning,” he answers.
“Okay. I’ll talk to you soon.”
I end the call and toss the cell phone on the bed.
“Are you okay?” Cami asks, her gaze searching my face.
I close my eyes as I nod, letting the wave of sadness pass through me. “My best friend’s getting married this Saturday.”
“Are you upset about it?”
I shake my head. “No, it just feels like he called to ask my permission because he was married to Anja.”
“Oh.” She comes closer and wraps her arms around my waist.
I engulf her against my chest and press my face to her hair. Taking a breath, I admit, “It’s been fifteen years since Anja passed, but sometimes it feels like it just happened. We were really close.”
Cami presses a kiss to my chest but doesn’t offer me empty words of comfort.
“I’m happy for Nikolai, though. He deserves this more than anyone I know.”
She pulls back and gives me a stern look. “I’m a headache?” There’s no bite to her tone, so I know she’s joking. “And you’re getting me a babysitter?”
“I didn’t want to get into it over the phone. I want to tell Nikolai in person, so I told a white lie.”
“Why in person? He just told you he’s getting married via a call.”
I pull her back to my chest before I answer, “He’s been worried about me because I live a reclusive life, and I want to see his expression when I tell him about you.”
She gives me a beautiful smile. “So you’re going to a wedding this Sunday?”
“We’regoing to a wedding,” I correct her. “I need you there as living proof that I’m not bullshitting him.”
“Then I’m coming with on the supply run. There’s no way I’m letting you buy me a dress I haven’t approved.”
“Okay,” I agree. “But you follow my orders to a T.”
She nods and lifts herself on her tiptoes to give me a quick kiss. “And before we go shopping for a dress, I have to get a normal outfit because I’m tired of wearing shorts every day.”
I lower my hands to her ass and grip her tightly. “I like your ass in shorts.”
I lean down until our faces are an inch apart, but before I can claim her mouth, she says, “Will you let me have control just this once.”
“For?”
“Sex.”
My eyebrow lifts, but then I nod.
She wiggles out of my arms and rushes out of the bedroom, only to return seconds later, carrying a chair from the kitchen.
She places the chair at the foot of the bed, then orders, “Sit.”
I’ve never given anyone control over anything concerning me, but for Cami, I’ll make an exception.
I take a seat on the chair, then lift an eyebrow. “What now?”
