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I sleep all afternoon,waking when Owen calls me at six p.m.
“Hey, you,” I say sleepily, rolling onto my side.
“Did I wake you?”
“Kind of. Are you still at work?”
“Yes. I’ve got a few more hours here.”
I really want to tell him he needs sleep, but he’s a grown man and can figure that out for himself. “At the risk of sounding like I’m trying to manage you, what are you planning for dinner?”
I hear his smile when he says, “You know I like your style of management. I haven’t thought about dinner yet. I’ll probably order takeout.”
I sit up and move off the bed. “Can I bring you something to eat? Would that be okay?”
“You never need to ask me if you can bring me something, Charlize. My answer would never be a no.”
I like the way those words settle in me. I’ve been told no too many times in my life in similar situations. “What time would you like to eat?”
“I’ve got a call to take at seven thirty. I should be finished with that by eight, so any time after that.”
“Okay, I’ll see you then. Oh, wait, what did you call for?”
“Just to hear your voice. I’m sorry I woke you.”
No one has ever told me they called just to hear my voice. I don’t know how I made it this far in life without knowing how good it feels for someone to just want to hear my voice. “You know how we’re starting that list of every filthy, dirty thing I want you to do to me? Well, I’m also starting a clean list, and you calling just to hear my voice is now on it.”
“I’ve already started that list. I’ll add this to it.”
He’s trying to kill me here.
Spoiler alert: it’s working.
Consider me dead, slayed, breathless.
Why did I not know men who start lists like this exist?
“You really are an overachiever, Owen. Starting lists all by yourself.”
“It’s for purely selfish reasons.”
“You’re just trying to score pussy, right?”
“And that filthy, filthy mouth of yours.”
“That mouth is dying to suck your dick again.”
“Fuck,” he growls, and that word alone causes a throb of need deep inside me.
“I think that’s my signal to let you get back to work because while I’d love nothing more than to have phone sex with you right now, I really want you to go home at a respectable hour tonight so you can get some sleep.”
“Don’t wear panties tonight.”
Oh, holy stalker of stalkers.
Yes.
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