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“You know, hanging around me like this is a bad idea. We’re supposed to be keeping it quiet.”
“I will keep it quiet. I want some cookies.” I looked down at her with a smile. “There’s a carnival in town next weekend. Go with me.”
Georgia looked over her shoulder at Mia, making she didn’t hear me. She looked back up at me with a slight grin as she nodded.
“Alright. I’ll go with you.”
I grabbed a couple of cookies off the tray, hissing as they burned my fingertips. Mia laughed and scrambled over to take a cookie from the tray.
“Have a good night, ladies,” I said before heading to my room.
If I thought it would be a long night earlier, it would be an impossibly long night now.
Georgia was only going to be a few feet away from me in a bedroom down the hall. She would be wearing one of those little short sets she loved, curled against a pillow.
It wasn’t that long ago that she was wearing one of those little sets and cuddling me instead of a pillow.
A part of me considered sending her a message and telling her to sneak into my room after Mia slept.
The better man inside me told me to go to bed.
I listened to the better man for the first time since I met Georgia.
Chapter Seven: Georgia
Thesunshoneaswe stood at the entrance booth to the carnival. Brett passed the worker the money for two wristbands. I grinned once the piece of plastic was wrapped around my wrist.
“I haven’t been to a carnival since I was a kid,” I said as I tilted my face to the sun, absorbing warmth while Brett got his wristband on.
“You know, people are going to talk if they see us together,” Brett said as we walked through the entrance and entered the carnival grounds. “What do you want to tell them?”
I sighed and ran my hand through my hair. Since I agreed to go to the carnival, that had been all I thought about. We needed a believable story in case someone saw us together. Especially if news of anything we were doing got back to Mia.
“We were working on another listing and decided to take a break together. You and I are still colleagues.”
Brett smirked as he looked down at me. “Technically, I’m your boss. That’s more of a scandal.”
“You look like the thought of a scandal excites you.”
“If Mia were entirely removed from the situation, it would. However, we have to consider Mia.”
“We do.”
I looked around the carnival, taking in the scent of funnel cake and popcorn while children ran around screaming. Their parents chased behind them, looking exhausted and carrying collections of cheap toys won from game booths.
“What do you want to do first?” Brett asked, his gaze locking on one of the rides that flipped you upside down and spun around. “That looks like fun.”
“You’re going to scream like a little girl,” I said as I led the way to the ride.
Brett laughed and followed me. When I looked over my shoulder at him, there was warmth in his eyes. It had been long since any man looked at me that way.
It was nice to feel like I was the only woman in the world that existed. He made butterflies erupt in my stomach.
Brett’s hand landed on the small of my back. He could pass it off to anyone who looked at us as moving me out of the way of someone else. Instead, his thumb drifted up and down the small of my bare sparks flying against my skin.
I adjusted the hem of my crop top as his hand slid a little lower. Finally, his fingers drifted along my waistband. Tingles raced through my body. For a moment, I thought about hauling him off into a corner and having my way with him instead of getting on the ride.
However, I was determined to think with my head and not my body.
