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I just shake my head and tell him, “No, you’re not staying.”
“I am staying.”
He uses a growly tone that sounds so pompous. So arrogant, yet so damn sexy.
Ugh, I want to hit myself for these thoughts.
I shake my head. “You can’t sleep here.”
“Someone has to watch you.”
“You weren’t watching me before, and I was perfectly fine.”
“That’s where you’re wrong.” He tsks. “I was watching you before I went to go get water. In the time it took me to go downstairs, get water, drink it, and come back up, you managed to get yourself stuck in the shower.”
My mouth opens and shuts.
“You were in the room the whole time?”
“Yep.” He smiles. “FYI, you talk in your sleep.”
“I do not.”
“Okay, sure, princess.”
Maybe I do, and by the way he’s grinning, it can’t be a good thing.
There is no way I’m going to get him out of this room. I let out a deep, audible, dramatic sigh.
“It’s really not that bad, Payton.”
“Which part?” I lift a brow. “The part where you spy on me when I sleep? Or the part where I can’t actually do anything to get you outta here?”
“The latter.” He kicks one foot on top of the other, getting way too relaxed for his own good. “Think of it this way. For the night, you have a personal butler. If you want a drink, I’ll get it for you. You need help getting up? I’ll help you.” He says it like he just offered me the best gift in the world.
“How about you go down the block and get someone else to watch me?” I grumble.
“That’s not going to happen, princess.” He shakes his head. “But if you keep playing your cards right, maybe I’ll ask your sister.” He lifts a challenging brow.
“You wouldn’t dare.”
“Yet . . . I think I would.”
That is all he has to say for me to fall in line.
Point to you, Trent.
In the morning, I awake to the sight of Trent sitting on the side of my bed. Just looking at me with concern on his face.
“Good morning, princess.”
Normally, the moniker bothers me.
But today, when he says it without venom, when he uses that deep rumble of his morning voice, I want to melt.
Wow.
What changed since the accident?
