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“Damn it,” I muttered, walking over to its new position.
After three tries, the ball finally sunk in. “I tried to help you,” he teased.
“Yeah, yeah, just go.”
After playing a few more holes, I figured it was best to actually talk to him.
“Do you have any siblings?” I asked.
He hit his ball and nodded, never taking his eyes off of it. “I’m the youngest out of four. Only boy.” I let out an embarrassing snort, eliciting a chuckle from him.
“I bet that was fun,” I mused.
“Sure, if you call hardly being able to use the bathroom, listening to boy talk, and dealing with hair clogging the shower drain fun. The good thing about it was that I always had my own room,” he said, stepping aside so I could take my turn.
“Are they all back home in Virginia?”
“Two of them are, yeah. My sister born before me passed away a couple of years ago,” he mentioned, a slight frown settling on his handsome features. I swallowed hard, my heart slightly breaking for this man who appeared more human each time I talked to him.
“I’m so sorry to hear that,” I murmured.
“What about you?” he quickly added. Noticing the change of subject, I moved along to the next hole with him.
“One sister. Our family is tiny compared to yours,” I joked.
“Yeah. I could only imagine what it was like for my mom to raise us on her own.”
“Wow. I think she did good. You guys didn’t kill each other and you turned out pretty…okay,” I said, hitting the ball and groaning when it bounced off the windmill.
He smiled. “We survived somehow. What about your parents?”
“Still together and living in my childhood home.”
“That’s cool. Good relationship with them?”
“Yeah, of course. They’ve been worried about me lately with this whole late bills thing. Even wanted me to move back home.”
“Why didn’t you?”
“I don’t know. Once you’ve had a taste of being on your own, it’s kind of hard to go back to someone else’s rules and all that, you know?”
He nodded thoughtfully. “I hear you on that one.”
We finished our game and headed back to the lobby. “That was fun. Want to head back to the apartment? You still have to cook, you know, and it’s getting kind of late,” he teased.
I rolled my eyes. “We may be having left overs because everything in the freezer is frozen, unless you want a sandwich.”
“I don’t care what it is as long as you’re wearing lingerie while you’re making it,” he said with a wink. I shook my head.
“Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let’s just get this over with.”
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I shouldn’t have felt as nervous as I did right now. Staring at myself in my full-length mirror, I’d never felt so naked and vulnerable than I did in this moment. I’d slipped into my lacey black bra and matching thong set, hoping this would be enough to classify as lingerie. O’Shea waited in the living room, which made me both excited and terrified.
“Don’t lose control,” I whispered to myself, glancing at the clock to see it was 11:01 p.m. I had about an hour left to hold out before I finally gave in and let him have his way with my body. I can totally do this. Just one hour.
Taking a deep breath, I finally left my bedroom, slowly walking down the hall. O’Shea watched something on the ESPN channel, completely oblivious to my presence. I cleared my throat to catch his attention.
