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With a yelp of surprise, I pressed a hand to my heart and rasped, “Whoa.” The light was still on in the kitchen, so I guessed, “We must’ve blown a breaker by running the television and fireplace at the same time. Don’t worry. I’ll go check it out.”
I remembered seeing the fuse box in the back, near the bathroom, so I made my way to the hallway under the metal stairs. But when I opened the door to the box, none of the switches were flipped in the opposite direction as the others.
“Huh,” I said, running my fingers along them, just to be sure one wasn’t even slightly moved.
The problem didn’t seem to be a blown fuse, though, so I shut the door and returned to the front room…which was empty.
“Thalia?” I called, looking around just as a door upstairs slammed shut, making me jump. A moment later, “Gangnam Style” started to play through the floor above me.
I grimaced over her choice of songs and then sighed as I glanced at the blank television and dead fireplace.
I guess she really,reallyhadn’t liked me pressing her about Damien.
Probably best not to tell her I’d already had sex with him.
Picking up the remote, I pointed it at the television and pressed thepowerbutton just to test it. When the screen immediately flicked on and went back to playingPitch Perfect, I lifted a curious eyebrow and shrugged before tossing the remote down and curling back into my spot on the couch.
But when I glanced over toward Thalia’s empty spot, I was only more hurt to see that all the snacks I’d brought her hadn’t even been touched.
I couldn’t concentrate on my homework after that at all, too upset by what had just happened and distracted by the annoying song she played on repeat above me. I flipped off the movie and then glared up at the ceiling.
That’s it: I was going grocery shopping.
* * *
The storeclosest to my apartment didn’t have my favorite brand of French vanilla cappuccino K-Cups, and I was in a sullen enough mood that I decided not to purchase anything from them in revenge. And so I went back around the store, putting everything back that I’d already picked up, and I left empty-handed.
In my car, I didn’t feel like going home, though, and I couldn’t call Jay to whine about my roommate, plus I was pretty sure focusing on homework wasn’t in the cards for the rest of the day, so I pulled up my phone and searched for other grocery stores in the area.
On my fourth try, I finally found my beloved single-serve brewing capsules—thank God—but of course, they’d been stashed up on the very top shelf, that I couldn’t reach, even after I stepped onto the bottom, base shelf and stretched as far as I could go on my tip toes.
“Dammit,” I muttered, collapsing down to my regular five-four before noticing someone else in the aisle behind me.
With his back to me, he held a bunch of bananas under one arm and reached for a box of protein bars with the other. He had to be at least six feet, easy.
“Hey, tall guy,” I said, tapping on his back, only to realize—wow—he had aniceback. And a superb butt. Along with wide, perfect shoulders and a strong neck. “Do you think you could reach…?” But as he turned to face me, my mouth fell open. “Holy shit,” I ended up uttering instead.
16
OAKLYNN
Damien reared back, equally startled by my presence.
“Oaklynn,” he said and then shook his head as if to clear it. “What’re you doing here?”
I swallowed as memories of our night together roared through me. I was suddenly back there on that desk with him slipping his hand under my knee to lever my leg higher as he stepped between my thighs.
My inner muscles clenched in anticipation and my breasts tightened, aching for him again.
God…
One time had not been enough.
“S-shopping,” I managed to fumble out as my chest heaved for more air. “You?”
But was it hot in here? This damn store felt like a sauna all of a sudden.
“Same,” Damien answered, lifting his bananas to prove it. And whew, even their hard, phallus shape was doing a number on me.
