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Her face scrunched up slightly. “I don’t know…I guess a part of me always figured I’d do that when I didn’t want to do all the big stuff anymore. Like when I was ready to retire and settle down that I’d look into opening my own studio or something.” She shrugged. “It’s always been there in the back of my mind, but there’s so much I want to do first.”
They sat in tranquil silence for several long minutes before he asked, “So, when are your parents coming home?”
“Next Wednesday, so…one week.” Her eyes were closed again and she looked incredibly peaceful. “I can’t wait to see them and I’m hoping the house is done so I can finally go home.”
And that meant no more alone time in the hot tub and any overnight escapades—if they had them—would be at his place. None of this was bad, but…
“I thought about staying here,” she went on quietly. “It’s a great place and it’s not like anyone else is using it, but I think it would be weird if my folks were home and all my stuff was there and I stayed here.”
“That makes sense.”
She got quiet again and Noah wasn’t sure if it was because she was thinking or if she was seriously just enjoying the hot water and the jets.
“It just sucks because we won’t get to have a lot of time like this anymore,” she finally said. “And I don’t just mean the hot tub, but…all of it. I realize I’m a grown woman, but I never did the staying overnight at a boyfriend’s place while living at home. I think that could be awkward. Especially since you work with my dad.”
Yeah. That.
As much as it was fun not thinking about what was going to happen when Lucas and Emma got home, now that she had opened the door to that conversation, he knew it was time for them to talk about it.
“I know we’ve been avoiding this discussion, but…”
“I know,” she murmured with a weary sigh. “I’ve loved being in this bubble. I know that my grandfather knows about us, but that just makes him happy. He made it easy for us to just…you know…be.”
He nodded.
“As for next week? I honestly don’t know what’s going to happen. For all we know, my dad’s going to be so happy and relaxed after this trip that nothing’s going to bother him.”
He opted to keep his snarky comment to himself.
“Okay, but…” He sighed loudly, raking a wet hand through his hair. “What are we doing, Lily? I mean…I think we both went into this out of pure curiosity and a mutual attraction, but I kind of got the feeling that you weren’t particularly serious about a relationship.”
She didn’t respond right away and Noah wasn’t sure if that was a good or a bad thing.
“Honestly, in the beginning I didn’t know what I wanted or where I saw this going. All I knew was that I wanted you.” She looked at him with a small smile. “Then I got to know you and I realized how I had misjudged you back when we met.”
“I feel the same way,” he admitted. “You have no idea how much I hated myself because you made me react in ways I never had before. As you can probably tell by now, I’m not confrontational, and yet you made me argue with you all the damn time.”
She grinned. “It was actually like a weird form of foreplay.” With a wink, she added, “And for the record, I kind of hated myself because you were the total opposite of every guy I ever dated and yet I was wildly attracted to you.” Then she sank a little lower under the water before shimmying over to straddle his lap. “And I’m still wildly attracted to you.”
As his hands went to her waist, a million questions raced through his mind and most of them would kill the moment. So instead, he gently flexed his hands and held her tight. “That’s good, because I’m still wildly attracted to you.”
“Then let’s not think about next week,” she said in a sultry tone, “and show each other just how wild we can be.” Her hands went behind her back, where she untied her bikini top and pulled it off, tossing it onto the ledge.
Noah helped her with the bottoms, and Lily returned the favor with his briefs.
The way she touched him was erotic and so damn good that he barely remembered his own name, let alone that he was supposed to be worried about where they were going to be a week from now.
And as her body moved against his, he didn’t even have the will to care.
THIRTEEN
Lily was livingher best life.
Like…seriously, her best life.
She was dancing and feeling stronger every day, and every night she and Noah were going out and having these amazing dates. She was so damn happy and life felt so perfect that it felt like she had a perpetual smile on her face.
And it felt good.
