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Her frown deepens.“What?No, he hasn’t done anything.I just got caught up in the contract I was working on and didn’t realize the time.Now, we’ve got less than an hour until the wedding and I’m nowhere near ready.”
I narrow my eyes at her, still not convinced Slade hasn’t done something.“Was it one of your other clients?Is there something I can do to help?”
The lines smooth from her face and her features soften.“There’s nothing you can do, Callan, but I appreciate you wanting to.”She glances at the mess on the sofa.“Actually, you could collect all my cosmetics and bring them into the bathroom for me while I figure out which dress I’m going to wear.”
“You brought more than one?”
She’s already at the sofa gathering her clothes.“Of course.”She says that like everyone in the world except me knows that a woman would, of course, bring multiple dresses to choose from.
“Why are all your clothes and cosmetics on the sofa?”I ask as I help her.
She doesn’t stop what she’s doing but she does glance at me, her brows furrowing.“Why are you asking so many questions?”
“Because I’m fucking bamboozled as to why you’d bring everything out here.”
“I’m bamboozled as to why you’re using a word I’ve never heard you use.”She stops and stares at me.“It’s a pre-thirties crisis, isn’t it?”
“What?”
“All the weird things you’ve been doing and saying the last month…it’s not a sex addiction crisis, it’s a pre-thirties crisis.”
My lips twitch.“You’re fucking cute when you’re conjuring up shit about me.”
She blinks and stares at me some more like I just said something very confusing to her.“I’m trying to figure out what’s going on with you.”
I want to say, “It’s you!You’re what’s going on with me,” but I don’t.Instead, I say, “I can assure you I’m not in crisis, but I’m certainyouwill be if you don’t hurry up and get ready.”
With that, I take her makeup into the bathroom, calling over my shoulder, “I just need a quick shower and shave.You go first.”
She joins me.“Okay, so this is where our problem lies.The lighting in this suite is bad and there’s no way I can apply my makeup or do my hair in the living room or bedroom.Honestly, we’re paying a fortune for this suite.They’ll be hearing from me as to my suggestions for what to improve.”
I only just rein a grin in.I fucking adore her nerdy attention to details.“So, what you’re telling me is that you’ll be applying makeup in the bathroom while I’m showering.”
She worries her bottom lip with her teeth.“That’s gonna be awkward, isn’t it?”
“Not for me.”
“I’ll try to give you as much privacy as I can.”
I can’t fight my grin a second longer.“Have I ever struck you as a man who requires privacy?”
That gorgeous pink blush I love colors her cheeks.“Well, I’m going to give it to you anyway.”
Fuck.
The urge to pull her into the shower right now and strip her is overwhelming.I had no idea how much modesty turns me on.Or maybe it’s just because it’s coming from Olivia.Either way, I need to put space between us, otherwise she’s going to learn really fast just how much I’d prefer no privacy in this bathroom.
“Don’t spend a second worrying about me.I’m easy with whatever needs to happen to get you to the wedding on time.”
Liv has the fastest shower I’ve ever known her to take.I’m sitting on the sofa replying to an email when she comes into the living room with a towel wrapped around her.I’m engrossed in what I’m doing so am slow to glance up.By the time I do, she’s bending to pick up something she dropped.Thanks to the tiniest towel known to mankind, I’m treated to an eyeful of the backs of her legs and a hint of ass.
Christ.
I’m instantly hard.
If I thought last Saturday was difficult to get through when she begged me to undress her, I had no idea what was in store for me.I only just made it through sleeping next to her last night.Now, I have to make it through getting ready with her, attending another wedding and reception with her, and surviving another night lying in the dark with her while my imagination does its fucking best to kill me with a running porn movie of all the ways I could spread her legs and bury myself in her.
“Shit.”She straightens and looks at me.She does this so fast that there’s no way she doesn’t catch me checking her ass out.I’m sure it’s only her mild panic that’s scrawled across her face that stops her fully processing that.“Have you seen my earrings?”
