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The doors opened, and we stepped inside.
“Thank you for standing up for me.”
I watched as he pressed the button for the seventh floor, and my mind started imagining what else his fingers could do. They could touch my body, explore my curves, get tangled in my hair, plunge inside me, make me come.
“It was the right thing to do,” he said, almost nonchalant, like he would have done it for anyone and I wasn’t special. Maybe he would have. Maybe I wasn’t.
When the elevator dinged for our floor, he held the doors with one hand while I exited first. I stopped abruptly, and River almost ran into my back before I turned to face him. Without warning, I threw my free arm around his waist and buried my face in his chest. I was hugging River.
His strong body melted against mine as he bent down to cover me in a protective stance. I swore I heard him groan and not out of displeasure either. He liked touching me.
“You know, they also called him Half-Pint Chad,” I said with a smirk as I pushed away from him and tried to break the awkward scenario I’d just created by touching him so intimately.
“Because he’s short?”
“I think it was both. A dig at his height and the ice cream thing.”
River laughed as I finally started heading toward our rooms… which were next to each other… with an adjoining door between them. If I opened mine and he opened his…
Ugh!I admonished myself for even thinking those thoughts, so I tried to push them away.The guy did one nice, sexy, super-hot thing, and you throw your hatred out the window along with your pants? Think about Stacy and how much he hurt her.
Was River worth losing a girlfriend over?
Was any guy?
When I reached my door, River stood dangerously close to me, both of us holding our key cards in our hands, but neither one of us racing to get inside, like we had before. I could feel the heat penetrating from his body. I was supposed to hate him, but the feeling was eluding me. My hard shell toward him had cracked and was chipping away.
“Sky?” His voice hung in the air between us like a cloud.
“Uh-huh?” I mumbled in response, unsure of what he might say next.
“Maybe tomorrow, you can tell me who made you hate me so much.”
I blew out a soft laugh. “Well, I hate you a little less right now, if that counts for anything.”
He tried to close the gap between us, but I stepped back until I was pressed against the door. His arms encircled my body, holding me in place, and I couldn’t stop staring at his mouth.
Was he going to kiss me? Did I want him to?
Don’t do it.
Please do it.
Oh God.
“Well, I don’t hate you right now at all. I might even…” He paused, and I wanted to scream at him to finish the thought.
“Might even what?”
He shook his head, clearly content with driving me out of my mind. “Nah. It doesn’t matter.”
“I’m definitely starting to hate you again,” I said because I didn’t enjoy not getting my way.
He leaned down close to me, his lips brushing against my ear, and I swore my knees almost buckled on the spot. I held my breath as he spoke. “I know how to make you stop. Just tell me, Sky. Who said it?”
“I can’t,” I said, hoping my words weren’t as shaky as my body currently was.
“You can. It’s easy. Just tell me.”
