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“Those limits make me an asshole to your followers,” he says simply, his voice quiet.
I flinch. I don’t mean to, but I do. I hate that I contributed to that, but I see someone different now. And my followers are starting to also. “So show them what you want to, but if you want me to keep something between us, then tell me.”
I see the smile on his face, but it’s a sad one, and I don’t like it. I grasp his chin with my fingers and sit up enough to look him in the eyes.
“Royal, I mean it.”
Now his smile is back—his real smile. “You’re kind of bossy.”
“Not kind of,” I say, leaning in to give his lips a quick kiss. I don’t know what’s happening between us or when it changed. All I know is I don’t want it to stop. I want it to last for as long as possible. “How about this?” I start, and his smile only grows. “When we’re naked, everything we say is between us.”
Yup, his smile is huge now. “A naked rule?”
I grin at that and nod, liking the hell out of my own rule. “Yes. A naked rule.”
His hand skims over my naked chest and lands on the knot of the towel. “Do towels count as clothes?”
I nod. “Must be totally naked for it to not be on the record.”
“I can live with that.” He starts to unknot the towel just as my cat decides to make herself known and jumps up between us, looking at us, like she knows what we were planning and is disgusted.
Though, Royal’s smile is so damn sweet when he scratches her ears that I can’t be bothered. We’ll probably have some un-naked time to figure stuff out anyway.
“I should probably go home and let my dogs out.”
Disappointment settles in my gut, but I try to hide it. This was a big morning for him. He probably needs time to think about what’s happened. To decide whether he really liked it. I mean, I know he did—but whether he wants to do it again.
What it all means to him.
“Soren?”
I realize he asked me something, but I was too busy stuck in my head and didn’t really hear him. “What?”
He’s studying me carefully, looking amused, but also unsure at the same time. “I asked if maybe you’d like to come with me.”
What?
I stare at him, and I notice he’s nervously shifting on the couch and looking down. “I mean, you don’t have to. It’s silly.”
He starts to get up, but I grab his hand, causing Mickey to once again become annoyed and jump off the couch. “No, it’s not. But are you sure? You don’t have to ask me to come along if you need some time to think.”
“Thinking’s never been my strong suit,” he jokes, and I just shake my head and scold him with my eyes for putting himself down.
“Don’t do that.”
He smiles and then cups my cheek with his big hand, his eyes searching mine. “I have no idea what the hell is going on, but I know I don’t want it to end yet. I would stay, but I left pretty early this morning, and I’m sure my dogs need to go outside.”
I nod, but I feel slightly confused. “So you were already home today?”
He nods. “I got in last night, but I left early. I drove around for a long time, trying to talk myself into not coming here. But I had to. I had to come here, Soren.”
His eyes are intense and fixed on mine. My heart flutters nervously in my chest. “I’m glad you did.”
“Me too,” he says, and I can tell he’s being truthful. “Even though you didn’t actually get much of an interview.”
“Especially because of the naked rule and not being able to report about any part of that epic dick I now know you have,” I say, waggling my eyebrows and trying to lighten the mood and make him laugh.
It works.
