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“Shh,” he insisted with a soft smile before leaning in to softly kiss my mouth. “It’s okay.”
I swallowed, still feeling crappy, and my gaze kept apologizing to him.
He rolled his eyes as he leaned over to grab his phone off the bed stand. “I don’t know what I’m supposed to tell your dad about why I can’t come in, though. That I’ve only had you a half a dozen ways so far and still wanted to try a couple dozen more before the day’s over?”
As he dialed, I frowned. “Well, don’t tell himthat.”
Luke grinned mischievously and waggled his eyebrows. “Oh, that is exactly what I’m telling him.”
“Luke!” I hissed in warning, but he lifted his hand to cover my face, blocking me out. “Hey. Pick?” he said into the phone. “Yeah, I, um…I’m not feeling so great today. I was wondering if I could come in a couple of hours later or…hmm?” His gaze flashed to me in surprise. Then he straightened and evasively added, “What makes you think I’m with Chloe?” I could hear my dad’s voice turn hard before Luke hissed out an aggravated breath and muttered, “Fine.”
He held the phone out toward me. “He wants to talk to you.”
I frowned in confusion and made a face, but Luke only shrugged. So I shrugged too and took the phone.
“Hi, Dad…” I answered cautiously. “Did you need something?”
“Hey, Chloe Girl,” he said easily. “Nope. I just wanted to hear your voice.”
“Okay…” I said slowly, wrinkling my brow at Luke, just as confused by my dad’s request to talk to me as Luke was.
“And I can hear it,” he added, which only made me tilt my head, even more baffled. “I can hear everything in your tone.”
“Hearwhat?” I asked, biting my lip and hoping he didn’t say that I sounded as if I’d just gotten laid.
“That it’s working,” he said, sounding a bit too self-satisfied for me to misconstrue his meaning. “Isn’t it?”
Pick Ryan wasn’t the type to say,I told you so, but this was as close as he’d ever gotten. I scowled and shook my head, irritated that he had to be right about somethingyet again.
Muttering, “Possibly,” I glanced Luke’s way as the naked man on the bed with me shook his head and asked with his eyes what was going on.
My dad laughed. “Yep,” he said. “That’s the best confirmation I’ll ever get from you. Just know that I’m happy for you, baby girl. And I love you.”
With that, I melted. “I love you too, Dad,” I said.
“Now put Luke back on.”
I nodded and held the phone out to Luke. Instead of taking it from my hand, he leaned in close to press his ear to the receiver so we could both be near enough to hear my dad when he said, “You’ve got the whole day off, but I expect you back tomorrow,” before he hung up on both of us.
I glanced at Luke, and he glanced at me, lifting his eyebrows expectantly.
Then I burst out grinning, happy I’d gotten my way. “Hear that, Hamilton?” I whispered. “You’re all mine now.”
And I dove at him, hugging him around the chest and tackling him back onto the bed. He laughed and caught my hips, holding on to me as I kissed around his face and along his neck.
“I’d ask what you planned to do with me,” he answered breathlessly. “But I think I already have an idea.”
I chuckled and caught both his wrists, tugging his hands from my waist. Then I brought them above his head and pinned them to the blankets. “Keep these here and don’t move.”
“Damn.” His eyebrows perked up. “Okay,” he added as his throat shifted through a swallow. “You have my attention.”
I pointed in warning. “You move, I stop.”
“I’m not moving,” he promised, his gaze filling with heat.
My smile returned, and I kissed him once on the lips in thanks, then I kissed my way along his jaw and down his chest, exploring and touching as I went lower and lower.
He started to straight up pant under me. “Chloe…” he rasped. “You about ready to let me use my hands again?”
