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I almost laugh for a third time. The photograph in my room is of Calista. One day I’ll tell her, but not tonight.
After setting Calista on her feet in the shower, I angle the spray away from her until it’s the right temperature. Then I wash her from head to toe. Enjoying every fucking second of it.
She blushes furiously the entire time, but that only adds to my pleasure. I haven’t taken care of a woman like this since my mother, and it’s soothing in a way I didn’t expect. Maybe because my mother was drugged out of her mind when I looked after her. Memories surface, disturbing the serenity I’ve found with Calista and I’m quick to dismiss them, but it’s not without effort.
“Thank you,” Calista says, once she’s dressed in my t-shirt and lying in my bed. “You didn’t have to do all that.”
“Yes, I did. I take care of what belongs to me.”
“Including me.”
“Especiallyyou,” I say.
She mocks me with a frown, but it melts away the second I climb onto the bed and pull her to me. Contentment like I’ve never known surrounds me like a blanket, offering warmth and peace. All because of the woman in my arms.
“Go to sleep, Callie.”
She salutes me with a yawn. “No problem, sir.”
“We need to discuss your flippant behavior at some point.”
“Yup.”
I grin. “You think I don’t hear the ‘fuck you’ when you do that?”
“Yup.”
With a laugh, I swat her ass, making her yelp. I massage her skin while using my other arm to keep her in place. “I think you enjoy testing my patience.”
“Yu—erm, yes, I do.”
My smile widens. “Sleep now.”
“I can’t when my ass is on fire.”
“Language, Miss Green.”
Calista lifts her head from my chest and kisses me, startling me with her uncharacteristic display of affection. Now I’m the one who’s been wrecked. My heart, wherever that fucker might be, bleeds for her.
“Good night, Mr. Bennett.”
“Good night, baby.”
Chapter41
Calista
“It’s been three days,”I say.
Harper looks at me with a confused expression twisting her lips. “Three days since what?”
I lower my voice, my gaze darting around the Sugar Cube before I answer in a whisper. “Since Hayden and I had sex. Why hasn’t he initiated anything?”
“I don’t know.” Harper taps her chin. “That doesn’t sound normal for someone like him. Maybe he’s waiting for your vagina to heal? I mean he did dig into it like he was searching for gold or some shit.”
My face heats up and I press my hands to my cheeks. “Sometimes I can’t handle your honesty.”
“But you love me for it.”
