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Her breath came fast, a faint sheen of sweat breaking out on her forehead as the panting mewls turned more urgent. Pleasure surged through me and I tamped it back down.
I slid my thumb over her clit, rounding the tiny bud in tight circles until her body tensed beneath me, her grip tightened on my waist and, finally, her body went slack. With a final thrust, I came, collapsing on top of Nora. I buried my face into her shoulder, relaxing as she ran her hands down my back, massaging me with her fingernails.
“I really missed you,” she whispered, kissing the hair above my ear and squeezing me tight.
I pushed myself up, trying and failing, not to get turned on again at the sight of Nora underneath me, skin delightfully pink and a satisfied smile on her face. “I missed you, too.”
She closed her eyes, fighting back a yawn before opening them again. “Want to go upstairs? Take a little nap?”
“A nap? It’s nearly midnight.”
“We only have one night.”
CHAPTER25
Andy
I relaxed in Chicago,a city I spent enough time in to have a favorite restaurant, a preferred hotel, and a few people I could share a meal with. I didn’t enjoy bouncing around random cities, even when I’d first worked to get my business off the ground. The constant glad-handing and conversations left me exhausted and out of my element.
Leaving Nora behind made it that much worse.
The quick trip home hadn’t staunched my homesickness; it only amplified it.
My days no longer revolved around the next meeting, but my next phone call home. I spent the entire day distracted, stopping myself from sending her dozens of messages, checking in on her and Trashcan, asking what she was up to, and what she was thinking.
Sundays were the worst. She spent most of the day at her brother’s house, making dinner with his girlfriend and chatting with her family. Once she snagged an invitation for Trashcan, she didn’t even have a good reason to come home early.
So, with no phone call to look forward to, I turned to Chicago. Surely, I could find something to keep me busy until the morning. A bar. A show. A restaurant. I came up empty.
A knock echoed from the door.
I frowned, an utterly irrational part of my brain hoping I’d open it and find Nora. Maybe she’d flown out to meet me. Maybe she’d missed me just as much as I missed her. It was improbable, since she had a class in the morning, but I still hoped.
I checked the peephole, disappointed and relieved when I saw Payton on the other side. I pulled it open.
“What are you doing here?”
She wrapped me in a hug. I returned the embrace. “Dad told me you were in town, and I know you’re a creature of habit.”
She let me go and breezed into the room, heels tapping on the thinly padded wooden floor. She set her designer purse on the coffee table and sat on the couch, crossing one leg over the other and resting an elbow on her knee.
I followed in her wake, sitting on the opposite side of the couch. Payton never traveled without a dozen places to visit and see. At least she solved the problem of my boredom.
“Have you raided the mini bar yet?” She stood again, pulling open the tiny bar and rifling through the contents. She moved every bottle in the process, charging them all to my room without a second thought. “God, the selection here is shit. You’d think they’d know you better by now. You want a terrible gin and soda or an awful whiskey?”
“Gin and tonic sounds good.”
She opened a soda can, swiped two tumblers off the top of the fridge, and mixed a drink.
“What do you have going on tonight?” she asked.
I shrugged. “Nothing, yet. I’m actually glad you dropped by. I was bored out of my mind.”
“That cute wifey isn’t here to keep you company?” She handed me the crystal glass and slowly scanned the empty hotel room.
“She in college, actually. Nursing school. She’s in the middle of a semester and can’t follow me around.”
A slight crease formed between Payton’s eyebrows. “She’s not taking advantage of this whole fake trophy wife thing.”
