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They were in the shower before the others even realized they were gone.
Chapter Twenty-One
Aiden
The morning light peeked through the blinds far sooner than he would have preferred. Their time together was coming to an end.
They’d missed the sunrise, so he didn’t see the point in waking Dakota. He wanted to relish the few hours they had left with her in his embrace.
“Good morning.” Her melodic voice cut through the quiet of the dawn.
“Hey, beautiful. How’d you sleep?”
She snuggled in closer to his side and sighed with her eyes closed, a smile on her face. “Great. How about you?”
He couldn’t remember the last time he’d slept so soundly. Or felt so relaxed. It must have been the lack of worry about being called into work.
He knew that was bullshit, but that was his story, and he was sticking to it.
“Not bad.” He glanced at his wrist. “The sleep score on my fitness tracker says eighty-three.”
“That’s good.” A wicked smile crept across her face when she looked up at him. “Considering how much energy you exerted before falling asleep.”
He returned the grin. “You wore me out, baby.”
Aiden wasn’t twenty-two anymore, but he’d held his own, going two more rounds before finally crashing for the night. When she confided she’d had a hysterectomy, they agreed to forego condoms since they’d both been tested.
“Sorry not sorry.”
“Oh hell no. Never be sorry for being a fucking goddess.”
“You were pretty incredible yourself.”
That prompted him to continue the conversation he’d attempted to have yesterday.
“Can I take you to dinner on Friday, and breakfast on Saturday?”
He felt her tense again before she softly whispered, “Aiden… you said yourself this was just for the weekend.”
“What if I changed my mind?”
Her hair brushed his chest as she shook her head. “I don’t think that’s a good idea. The Universe—”
He couldn’t help feeling wounded and cut her off as he sat up straight, causing her to do the same.
“Don’t hand me some bullshit about my aura being the wrong color or our chakras not aligning or some other cosmic crap. Us both being here was serendipity. How can you, of all people, ignore that?”
“I’m not ignoring it. I’m just not sure I think it means what you think it means.”
He reached for her hands. “We had a great time this weekend.”
“We did, but—”
“Why does there have to be abut?”
Aiden didn’t like the desperation in his voice. If she didn’t want to see him again, he should leave it the fuck alone. Instead, he was practically begging her to see they were good together. He didn’t beg, dammit.
He studied her face, and it dawned on him.
