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She leaned back against the table. “Thank God. I thought it was an earthquake.”
“I thought it was an avalanche.” I said.
“Which one’s worse?” she asked.
“They’re both bad.” I said, frowning at the message on my phone. It was from Tiffany.
Fucking timing.
“What is it?” she asked.
“I have to go.”
“What?”
“I’m so sorry, Laura, but this is urgent.” I picked a towel off the floor and wrapped it around my hips. Fucking timing. My ex always had awful timing.
“I should be mad at you,” Laura said, tracing a finger down my jaw. “But that was incredible.”
I turned my head to press a kiss to her palm. “This isn’t over. This was just the appetizer, beautiful”
She bit her lip, and I kissed the inside of her wrist, feeling her pulse flutter. “I’ll meet you in our suite. Get in bed and wait for me there. And you better fucking stay naked.”
My phone beeped again.
Fucking Tiffany.
I headed for the changing room and got dressed in a hurry, cursing under my breath.
When I rushed outside into the frigid night, my body still thrummed with desire, and I was grateful for the cold air to dampen my arousal. Tiffany had called five times in the last ten minutes and texted RED one minute ago.
We had a code. RED meant urgent.
Tiffany answered on the first ring,
“James? I’m so glad you called back.”
“What’s the emergency?” I asked. It couldn’t be our daughter because Kensi was with my parents.
“Just calling to let you know I will make it for Christmas, after all.”
“The storm will hit pretty hard overnight, Tiff.”
“I know, the worst timing, as usual. My first flight got canceled, but I could rebook.”
The wind blew, carrying a cloud of flakes, and the knot in my chest tightened.
“We agreed Kensi would spend the week after the new year with you.” I puffed a warm breath into my hands, watching the snow fall. The storm was intensifying, blanketing the world in white.
The phone hummed with static.
“Christmas is not the same without you two,” she said.
“Tiff, we agreed—“
“--I know what we agreed to, but things have changed.”
Nothing’s changed.
