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Nico sighs in relief and rolls off me with a long moan.
“That was something else, Aurora,” he chuckles.
I blush all over, looking down at my ripped shirt. “You’re telling me.”
“Did it help?”
I stare at him blankly. “What?”
“You said you didn’t want to think. Did it help?”
“I’m not thinkinganything,” I say, and Nico laughs, rubbing a hand over his face.
“Then it did work,” he chuckles.
I have no idea what to do with myself now, so I stand up on shaky legs. “I think I’ll take a shower,” I mumble, and Nico nods, throwing a forearm over his eyes.
I stare at myself in the mirror for a long time, at the marks that Nico left on my throat, the little red bruises on my hips. Had that really just happened?
Did I just sleep with Nico Andretti?
I take a deep breath and run the shower as hot as I can, standing under the spray. Luckily, I can’t think about poor Bruno when I just had the best sex of my life with my best friend’s older brother. I’m able to push it out of my mind.
I let the water run cold before I get out, and Nico’s sitting up, shirtless, on the edge of the bed when I come out in a robe, my dark hair wet and cascading down my back. I haven’t cut it since I was a teenager, and it’s probably my only vanity.
Nico looks up at me and I bite my lip.
“What do we do now?”
Nico shrugs. “We wait. You like to play cards?”
I smile slightly. “Only if it’s Texas Hold ‘Em.”
“A woman after my own heart,” Nico jokes, but my heart skips a beat nonetheless.
I follow him when he heads to the kitchen and my stomach growls loudly.
“I’ll make you something to eat first,” Nico suggests, and I sit down at the table and watch him make scrambled eggs and toast with ham from the refrigerator. “Dante keeps this place stocked,” he explains.
My mouth is watering at the smell, and I scarf down the eggs as Nico watches with a smile.
“You eat well,” he says, but it doesn’t sound like a criticism like it does when other people say it.
“I know, right? You can tell,” I say, looking down at my belly roll as I sit down.
Nico frowns. “Eating well is an attractive quality in a woman.”
“It is?” I ask incredulously, and he nods.
“You’re very beautiful, Aurora. You should know that,” he says quietly, and heat rushes through me, making my cheeks red.
“Thank you,” I mumble, not knowing exactly what to say. It’s not like Nico’s going tobewith me now. I’m not stupid enough to think that. But it means something that we slept together, right? It means that he’s at least attracted to me, and that’s something.
It means a lot, honestly, and I think that being on the run might not be so bad after all, especially when Nico laughs so hard at one of my jokes that he nearly snorts coffee out of his nose.
“You’re funny,” he says, almost accusatory, and I laugh.
“Is that a compliment?”
