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Sawyer slid his hands up my hips to my shoulder blades, pulling me into his chest as he moved. “Guess you’re staying here while he cleans you up.”
I wouldn’t complain about that. Here, pressed against Sawyer, was warm and cuddly and let me linger in bliss a moment or two longer.
When Gage returned, both men were gentle making sure most of the sticky was wiped off me. The bed wasn’t so lucky. It had a huge wet spot where we’d been, and we opted to relocate.
I stood, and Gage’s arm was around me in an instant, pulling me down next to him on the other mattress, Holding me tight. Not that I had a problem with that. The happy buzz in my veins wanted all of this, and for it to last for a million billion years.
Sawyer sat on the bed across from us, rather than joining us. “Well?” he asked.
Was he really…? Talk about a buzz kill. “Well what?”
“Who won?” Yup. That was what he was asking.
And I had the perfect answer. “Me. No question. Beyond that, let’s call it a tie.”
“Hmm…”
Sawyer’s lack of comment had me curious, but I was keeping Smart Evie under lock and key a little longer, so I wouldn’t have to think.
He grasped my fingers and kissed the back of my knuckles. “Happy… Day, Evie. Good luck to both of you on that pact.” He let go of me to grab Gage’s sweats from where they still sat at the edge of the bed. “Thanks for making this a memorable distraction.” Sawyer dressed as he talked.
Um…
I didn’t know what to think as he walked out of the room. That was abrupt. Definitely ruined the warm fuzzy glow in my core. Needy fuck me Evie was gone, and the part of me who could be reasonable and not much else was back.
I rolled out of Gage’s arms and onto my back. “What did we just do?” I was asking myself as much as I was him.
“Had a lot of fun. Incredible. Fucking. Fun.”
I almost laughed, though he hadn’t said anything particularly funny. I just needed to find a light feeling again. “Incredible fucking. I get it.”
“You did get it.” There was an edge to his teasing, but it was faint. A whisper amid fun.
I rolled my head to the side to look at Gage. “I got a bit caught up…”
“In the challenge. I know. I was here.”
The thing was, there weren’t many people I’d trust with a conversation like this, and I was grateful Gage was on that short list. “Did we make a mistake?”
“Does it feel like a mistake?”
Why was I struggling to read him? His answer was less than concrete, and certainly not what I hoped for.
“Only if you look at me differently now.” It was the truth. The only answer I had.
He reached across the space between us. Less than a foot, but it felt like it spanned eternity. He grasped my hand. “I promised I wouldn’t,” he said.
“But now that it’s happened…”
“To me, you’re still the same Evie as you were last night in the graveyard.”
Better. I could live with that. I was happy with that. “Then no, it doesn’t feel like a mistake. You were incredible.”
“So were you,” Gage said. “But you always are.”
Heat spread across my cheeks. I wanted to linger on Gage, not only on what he was saying, but on what he wasn’t. What hid under the surface. What led us to this point so quickly today?
I wouldn’t read between the lines though. Not today. Never with him. Doing so with someone else had gotten me in trouble once. It nearly destroyed me in more ways than one to assume a man meant something other than what they were saying.
