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CHASE
Forty minutes into working on these stubbornly tangled string lights, I’m tempted to give up. It feels like I’m never going to get them undone.
Then I remember the reason I’m doing it, and I start working on them again.
It’s stupid, really. I’m doing this all in hopes of charming Lolly, but there’s ultimately no point in it. She’s my tenant and I can’t pursue her. And even if she wasn’t my tenant, she’s too young for me.
Sure, at twenty-five, she’s a woman through and through. But why would she go for a man twelve years older than her? That’s the part I just can’t get over.
Last year, on a whim, I put up some string lights on the exterior of the house. A few nights later, I was outside grabbing a package when Lolly came home. Before heading around to the side door—the entrance to her half of the house—she called out hello to me and gushed about how much she loved the lights I had put up.
“They’re so pretty, Chase,” she said, pressing a hand to her heart. “I love them.”
And now here I am, a year later, putting them up again. Or attempting to, anyway. How the hell did these get so tangled up?
I tug one of the strings through a loop, and the mess finally starts to come undone. There. Finally. Feeling encouraged, I work on getting the rest of it straightened out. At last, it’s all untangled. I carefully loop the lights over my left arm and carry them over to the ladder that I already set up.
The hooks that I installed last year are still in place, so this time, all I have to do is hang up the lights. I’m hoping I can finish getting these up before Lolly gets home, because I’d like it to be a nice surprise for her. In addition to last year’s lights, I bought some new ones, too. The new ones have a setting that makes them twinkle. I’ve got a feeling she’ll like that.
Tucking the string lights into the hooks along my siding, I make my way up the side of the house. When I reach the second story, I install as much as I can, then climb down the ladder so I can shift it over a few feet. After repeating this a few times, I’ve made my way over to Lolly’s bedroom window. Her curtains are open, but the lights are off since she isn’t home.
Then, suddenly, the lights turn on. I freeze at the sudden flood of brightness.
The ladder I’m on is just to the side of her window, so she doesn’t see me as she walks into her room. While I curse under my breath and try to decide the best thing to do, she continues to not realize that I’m there. I know that if she sees me, I’ll be able to explain what I was doing at her window…still, I don’t want to scare her or make her uncomfortable. That’s the last thing I’d want to do.
Okay. She’s gone now. Good. The lights are out again, too. I’m guessing she’s going downstairs to fix dinner, which means I have a while longer to finish installing these lights.
I descend the ladder, shift it over a few feet, then climb back up. I’m able to install the lights all the way over her window before I have to go back to the box on the deck to get another string of lights. This new string is less tangled, but still requires some wrangling.
Now back up the ladder again.
I’ve just reached the top rung when Lolly’s bedroom lights flick on again. This time, she walks into her room in nothing but a bath towel. Her hair is wet and falling over her bare shoulders. At the sight of her, my hands grip the sides of the ladder tightly and my cock instantly goes hard.
Fuck. I need to back down this ladder as quietly and as quickly as I can.
And yet I don’t.
Oblivious to my presence, Lolly walks over to her closet and searches through her clothes. I have such a clear view of her that I can see a drip of water run off her hair and down the middle of her back.
Leave,I tell myself.Now.
Lolly decides on what she’s going to change into and throws the clothes onto her bed. Then she pulls off her towel, unknowingly exposing her backside to me. In that instant, it’s too much, it’s too dirty and wrong, and I force my eyes away.
But not before I get a glimpse of her perfect round ass and sumptuous curves.
2
LOLLY
I know Chase is watching me. I’m sure he thinks I don’t realize he’s there, but I’ve known all along. It’s a little evil of me to tease him like this, but you know what? I’m tired of him acting like he can’t make a move.
So here I am, showing him what he could have.
This sort of naughty behavior isn’t the norm for me. I’ve always been the good girl—straight A’s, no speeding tickets, and I always write thank you notes. I’ve never been one to even consider breaking the rules. But the past three years of living in Chase’s house and getting to know him little by little has slowly and surely made me crazy with desire. I shouldn’t want him, but he’s all I want.
If I was really brave, I would turn around right now. Or I would drop something on the floor so I could bend over and show Chase how wet and ready I am. Or, even better, I would crawl onto the bed and touch myself while he secretly watched through my window.
