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She’s wearing a fluffy white dressing gown, wrapped up as if it’s not summer outside. “I cooked you breakfast.”
I need to stop fucking smiling.
“Come here,” I tell her.
My eyes lock on her as she steps up to the bed. I remove the tray from her hands and place it on the bedside table. Then I grab her by the waist and pull her onto the mattress, putting her under me. I have her robe undone and my mouth on her skin within a second.
“You’re hungry?” I can hear the smile in her voice.
I bite down on her nipple, and she cries out, wiggling to get away from me. “Starving.” I work up her body, kissing her neck. “I missed you.”
She chuckles, running her hand through my hair. “You were sleeping.”
“Stop leaving me in beds alone.”
Her phone starts to ring, and I groan.
“It could be the hospital.”
I quickly fish it out of her pocket and pass it to her.
“It’s an unknown number.”
“Answer it.” I frown.
It rings out, and she curses. “I have our doctor’s number saved. If it’s him, it would’ve come up with his name.” She looks to me for reassurance. “If it’s important, they’ll leave a message.”
Her phone pings a second later.
She presses play and puts it on loudspeaker.
“Scarlet, it’s me, Lucy! Your brother booked a table at Groulx for Megs and me tonight to say thank you for getting Nina packed for Paris without her knowing. You’re coming with us. Please come!” I shake my head at Megan’s voice screeching in the background. “We really want you to come with us, Scar,” Lucy adds, and I watch as Scarlet’s whole face lights up. “I can come out and get you, or maybe you can get a lift. Let us know!”
She sits in silence once the voice mail ends. I fill the void by leaning down and kissing her stomach. “Are you going to go?”
She chews on her bottom lip. “I can’t. Groulx is on the other side of London. I’d be gone for hours, and I was out for most of the day yesterday. I don’t want to leave my dad again.”
“Is Vinny not around this weekend?”
I can practically hear her thoughts running. “Maybe,” she says.
She wants to go out with them. As much as I want to lie here all day and get lost in her, I want to see her eyes as bright as they were when Lucy invited her out more.
“You should go out. Why don’t you text Vin.”
Her face transforms again, and then she drops her phone to the mattress and pulls me over her, putting us nose to nose. “What are you going to do tonight?”
I kiss her long and deep. “Catch up on some sleep.”
“Hmm… I’m sorry.”
“Don’t be.” Our tongues meet, and I have to pull back, knowing she’s still sore from last night. “I can take you into the city if you want. I need to drop the car back to Aldridge anyway.”
She shakes her head, her chest working from our kiss. “I have things to catch up on from yesterday, but thank you. I’ll get a taxi into the city this afternoon.”
I nod. “So I only have a couple more hours.”
She smiles, her nails dusting across my shoulder blade. “Why don’t you eat breakfast so I can say goodbye to you properly.”
