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“That’s the highest compliment a guy can receive after a blow job,” Kace said, satisfied. I felt the bed shift as he hopped onto the other side of it, lying on his back, too.
“That wasn’t just a blow job,” I said, my voice already sounding far away. “Gotta catch my breath.”
I breathed slowly and evenly, images from tonight still swirling through my brain. Hot as hell images, sure.
But also sweet ones.
Like when Kace had come out into the parking lot after me, and I’d been so damn surprised thatanyonewould care to run after me.
It was as if somewhere in the last five or so years, I’d just decided that I wasn’t as desirable anymore. That my “fun years” were over. That I’d never get back that youthful passion and energy, and I’d just be content to live a life growing older and counting small pleasures where I could.
Kace had come into my life and thrown a damn cherry bomb right into all of that.
I closed my eyes, still trying to center myself. I didn’t know when my eyes closed, and when I fell asleep, it was deep and peaceful. Comfortable. Like I was finally in the right place.
Or at least a place that was right for me.
12
KACE
Knock knock knock knock.
“Kace. You in there?”
My body was heavy with sleep, like I was under a weighted blanket and very desperately didn’t want to move.
I let out a quiet hum before falling back asleep again.
Knock knock knock.“Kace?”
I slowly opened my eyes and realized that it wasn’t a weighted blanket at all—it was Nathan’s arm wrapped around me in bed, and he was snoozing away.
“Fuck,” I muttered when I realized what must be happening. “Vivienne?” I called out.
My assistant was outside my bedroom door, knocking because she’d walked in on me nude one too many times in the past.
As I spoke, Nathan finally started to wake up. First he tried to pull me closer, sucking in a breath of air and then sighing happily.
He must have been having some sort ofgooddream.
I heard Vivienne outside the door. “Just checking to see if you’re up,” she said. “The construction guys are out front. I just let them in.”
“Hey,” I told Nathan, shaking him awake. “Your dudes are here.”
Nathan groaned a little before his eyes opened. “Mydudes?” he asked, clearly still confused and sleepy.
“God, your eyes look pretty when you’re sleepy,” I told him. The morning sunlight was streaming through my bedroom windows, illuminating his eyes to reveal flecks of gold and green.
“Kace?” he repeated. Then he bolted up in bed, looking around. “Oh, fuck. Oh,fuck, fuck, fuck.”
“You’re fine, cutie. Chill.”
“This is not chill,” he said, getting out of bed. “I’m still naked. My clothes aren’t even in here. My team is outside already? How did we fall asleep?”
Nathan had gone to full freakout mode in about ten seconds flat. All I wanted to do was stare at his body before dragging him right back into the warm bed with me, but I knew how he was feeling right now.
“Okay. Don’t panic. We can do this,” I said, hopping out of bed and padding over to the door that led into my closet. “All we need to do is find some clothes I have that look like something you would wear. Come here.”
