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CHAPTER 16
Nora
“WHAT ARE YOUdoing?”
Beck sat on the chair next to the bed, staring at me. “Watching you sleep.”
I pulled up the covers. “That’s creepy, Cross.”
His lip twitched. “How did you sleep?”
I thought about it. I felt pretty well rested. Butoh shit—we needed to get back to the hospital. I pushed up to my elbows. “What time is it?”
“Nine.”
My brows pinched. “In the morning?”
Beck looked amused. “Yes. Nine in the morning.”
“On Saturday?”
“Yes, on Saturday.”
“So I only slept what, two or three hours?”
He shrugged. “About that.”
“But I feel so rested, like I slept a full night.”
A cocky smile curved Beck’s lips. “Must’ve been the snuggling.”
I rolled my eyes, but I wondered if he was right. Though there were two problems with admitting that. One, I’d be admitting Beck was right, and two, I’d be admitting I was wrong.
So I sat up and stretched. “Did you already shower?”
He nodded. “I did.”
“Alright. I’ll just take a quick one to wake up, but I won’t wash my hair, so I can be ready in about twenty minutes.”
“Take your time. I have a conference call in ten minutes that will probably run a half hour.”
Back in my room, I went straight to the bathroom. I was horrified by what stared at me in the mirror.
“Oh my God,” I mumbled. And here I was thinking he’d been admiring me while I slept. He was probably wondering who the lunatic in his bed was. I’d gone to his room with wet hair, so it had dried on its own, which meant it was sticking up all over the place now. A line of dried drool streaked from my mouth to my neck, and while I’d woken feeling rested, my puffy, red eyes told another story.
I groaned and twisted the hot water on in the shower. I’d need to be even quicker than usual so I could lay a cold rag over my swollen eyes for a few minutes. As soon as I hit the water, my brain woke up and fired off questions.
What the hell did you do—having sex with Beck?
What were you thinking?
Can’t you control yourself?
You have a vibrator in your suitcase, for God’s sake. Why didn’t you use that?
All excellent questions, and I didn’t have an answer for a single one of them.
But my stomach did a little somersault when I thought back to what had happened.
