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The oven buzzer went off and I jumped again.
“You sure are wound up,” he remarked as I removed the apple peels from the oven. “What’s up with that?”
“Dunno. Probably just leftover anxiety from meeting with the attorney.” I left the peels to crisp as they cooled on the baking sheets. “If I get jittery, it takes a while for my body to deal with the adrenaline.”
“Huh.” He captured my hand and led me across the open living area to the sofa. “I can help.”
“How?”
Drew’s mouth curved into a sexy smirk and his brow arched. “How do you think?” He sat and pulled me down to straddle his lap.
“Oh, I dunno. By telling me a story?”
His hands snaked under my tee shirt and slid up my spine. “Sure,” he murmured and kissed my jaw. “Once upon a time, there was a dirty old man named Drew. He met a sexy young woman named Zelda. They fucked like monkeys all over her house and lived happily ever after. The end.”
“You left out a few details.”
“And a few characters,” Aithan said from the stairway.
“Hmm.” Drew’s fingers came around my ribcage and danced across my breasts. I arched against his mouth and leaned my head back, sighing at the brush of his lips on my skin as he added to his story. “There was a noble knight named Aithan who also fucked the shit outta Zelda and kept her safe. A fool named Tristan who belonged in the dungeon. And an evil shrew named Greer whose tongue turned black and rotted off. Also, her tits shriveled up, but Zelda forgave her for being a bitch and let her live in the root cellar.”
I laughed at that, eyes closed, skin tingling.
Aithan’s lips captured mine as he leaned over me, facing Drew and cradling the back of my head. “Sounds like the start of a pretty good book.” He helped Drew free me from my tee shirt. “Does it have a happy ending?”
Drew chuckled. “A very happy ending.”
3
ALL THE WORLD KNOWS
“Brick.Briiick. Wakey-wakey.”
I opened one eye. Anemic gray light leaked past the edges of the bedroom’s dark-blue curtains, barely illuminating Drew’s handsome face. He knelt on the floor beside the bed, so close I felt his breath when he spoke, and he looked entirely too awake and adorable for whatever time it was. Still, that impish smile was irresistible.
“Hmm?” I murmured, mostly asleep. “What time is it?”
“Just after nine o’clock.”
“At night?”
“No. It’s Thursday morning.”
That made even less sense. “Where’s Frank?” My big tuxedo cat always woke me at seven forty-five.
“I fed him and Lu, so you could sleep.”
Aww. I smiled sleepily. “You’re sweet.”
“You didn’t sleep well, and I was up early writing.”
I opened both eyes. “Early?” Understatement. I didn’t think he’d slept at all since Tuesday morning.
“Yeah, finishedTits on Titan Fivethis morning.”
“How? You just started writing it last week.”
His grin widened. “I know, it’s fucking awesome. You inspire me.” He raised his phone. “I wanna announce our relationship to my readers this morning.”
