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“Tell the truth.” I eyed him, half-smirking. “This emotion is more because we spanked your asses for the second time, right?”
He shot me a look, but the emotion was gone. His lip twitched. “Pretty sure I could still kick your ass.”
“Pretty sure you never could. I’m twice your size, Kade.”
“You’re not that big, Broody.”
“Speak for yourself,” I countered, ignoring how conversations quieted when we walked into the family area. “I’m always that big.”
Kade snorted, but I ignored him.
Billie was in the corner, and I only had eyes for her. I went right to her.
No one else mattered in that moment.
51
BILLIE
I thought Brett was a little nuts when he offered to pay for our rooms. The Rothchelton wasn’t just any hotel. It was the definition of luxury for all hotels, what those hotels looked up to. This place catered to celebrities and the uber rich.
So, yeah. Brett was nuts.
We were waiting for the elevator as two other guests joined. Both men were in business suits, and considering the clientele for the Rothchelton, I’m sure these two weren’t normal businessmen, but it took two seconds for their football fanboys to come out.
They asked for selfies.
Then autographs.
When the elevator arrived, they rode with us and wanted to talk football with Brett.
I tuned out, remembering the look on Brett’s face when he came into the family section. Everyone had stopped talking because the image of Brett Broudou walking beside Mason Kade stunned people, but in the midst of all that, Brett couldn’t give two fucks because he only had eyes for me.
He went right to me and hauled me in for the tightest hug, lifting me off my feet.
It took me a second to react and then I had my arms wrapped around him. He soothed something in me that I’d been ignoring, or trying to ignore. The booze helped today, it helped a lot, but there were still some nerves.
I loved him.
I told him.
It was in a text, and it was said without thinking about it, but it was still there. He gave me no response so was this my response?
I tilted my head back, trying to see him better, and when his eyes met mine, my whole body came awake. His eyes were dark, stormy, and heated. A shiver went down my spine, knowing what he wanted to be doing at that moment. Feeling it, his eyes flashed. His hand moved to my spine, as if he could soothe that shiver away, but it was one of those delicious ones.
Things happened after he set me back down on my feet, but it was all a blur. I was in a Brett daze. It was so strong that Lo and Roger were shooting me looks because I wasn’t geeking out when Brett introduced me to Mason Kade, and then to his wife. Normal Billie wouldn’t be able to talk. I’d be staring, geeking out inside myself, with the whole fangirl look on my face. Instead, I was cool, calm, and collected.
I was normal by most people’s standards. Totally not Normal Billie.
Which Lo and Roger picked up on, but comprehension clicked when Brett and I couldn’t move a foot without touching each other.
He kept an arm around my waist, or a hand looped in the back of my pants, or slid his hand down my arm to take my hand in his. If he wasn’t touching me, then I was reaching for him. Always in contact.
At the end, my back was plastered to his front, and his arms were in front of me. One of my hands hung onto his arm with our other hands playing with each other.
Cue another one of those shivers.
I’d been having them the whole time we were in that family section. It was almost all I could concentrate on, barely hearing Lo and Roger excusing themselves when we got to the hotel lobby. They were heading for the bar.
