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I turn the water off and grab a towel. Why don’t hotels ever have towels good for hair? They’re either all shitty hand towels or heavy ass body towels that make me feel like my head is going to fall off.
“Shit,” I mutter to myself. I didn’t bring any clothes in with me. Oh, well. At least walking out of the bathroom in nothing but a towel might give me a better indication of what’s going on in Violet’s head.
When I walk out, I see Violet brushing through her hair with an outfit laid out on the bed. I can see already that it’s a halter top and shorts.
“Oh, hey.” Violet turns and her eyes flash wide for a moment.
“Yeah, sorry, I forgot my clothes.” I’m searching Violet’s face but she’s keeping her emotions tucked away. So I suck in a breath of confidence before I walk toward Violet, not sure of what exactly I’m going to do.
She’s still standing there as I get closer, hoping she isn’t going to play chicken on me. I get close enough and decide to go for a kiss. At this point, I’m feeling brave–really, reckless–enough.
I’m right in front of her, leaning in when she turns ever so slightly toward the mirror again. Knowing I lost the moment to kiss her, I reach out instead, letting my hand graze against her lower back. I walk around her as my fingers brush her hip first, trailing around until I find the other side and slide past her. I pretend it was an innocent, accidental brush as I reached for my own brush.
I half expect Violet to pull away from me but she doesn’t. She’s pulled her lips in, like she’s not sure how to respond yet. But I see a hint of something flash in her eyes as we catch each other’s gaze in the mirror.
She opens her mouth and I can feel her apprehension as she debates turning toward me or running away.
Please don’t run,I’m thinking over and over.
She gently sets her brush down and begins to turn toward me, her eyes trailing from mine down to my lips, then my neck, before resting on my towel-covered chest.
She moistens her lips and this is the moment. I’m sure of it. This is the moment that she steps toward me–
“Um, I’m going to go shower now.” Her voice is shaky but she’s already backing away. She scoops her clothes off the bed and clutches them as she hurries to the bathroom.
“Fuck,” I mutter. I’m filled with disappointment and confusion.
“What?” Violet asks, barely turning her head over her shoulder before disappearing into the bathroom.
“Um, I’m going to go get a drink from the machine.” I blurt the first thing that comes to mind.
“Oh, okay.” Violet disappears, leaving me alone with my thoughts.
What the fuck just happened? What was that? I drop the towel and sit on the bed, sighing with defeat. Had I read her wrong? Or had I scared her?
I hear the shower turn on and begrudgingly push myself off the bed and make my way toward the closet to get my sage green sundress.
I’m so lost in my thoughts that I don’t even hear the bathroom door open. And I don’t see Violet until she smacks into me.
Naked.
Just like me.
And we’re just two bodies, pressed against each other, frozen in place.
I reach up, sliding my hands to her hips, thinking I need to steady her. But she’s just fine. In fact, her hands find my hips too. Her breasts are pressed against mine, perky and plump. And I swear I feel her nipples pebbled against mine. I’m filled with a heat traveling from my chest all the way to my center.
Slipping my hands around her waist, I pull her tighter against me and drag my eyes from her chest up to her plump lips, begging to be kissed, and then up to rest on her eyes. And it’s then that I get my answer.
She wants this too.
* * *
“About damn time you two showed up.” Austin grumbles and I catch the way Grant is eyeballing us. But I ignore him. Not even Grant can fuck with my good mood–great mood. Sure, it is a little awkward, trying to both hide what happened and also figure out what the next move is. But, right now, I am going to focus on the elation that was on Violet’s face when my hands were on her.
“Um, sorry, we both had to take showers but the hot water sucks,” I blurt, hoping they will buy my lie.
“Oh my god, for real!” Kate blurts. “This asshole got up before me and by the time I got in the shower, it was damn near ice cold.”
