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“Don’t worry about it, doc. I’ve got it covered.”
I can see how uncomfortable she is with having me pay for something again, and I can’t deny that I sort of love it.
Watching her squirm a bit is just too much fun not to enjoy.
With that, we’re back in the car and heading home.
Home. Yeah, that felt too good, even just thinking about it. Get that idea out of your head, Luke. You can’t.
Up inside the penthouse, I lock the door behind us. I made sure to let security know we’re on high alert, as it were, and Clara seems glad about it.
“You can relax. I swear. They’re pros, and that’s coming from someone who was a Marine.”
“I know, I know. I just…” Clara’s words die off, and I watch as she squeezes the handle of the plastic clothing bag.
Walking over, I put my hands on hers, getting her to focus on me.
“Hey, you have every right to be nervous. To be freaked the fuck out. But try to relax. Just try to let yourself ease off the tension. Okay?”
She scoffs, laughing sarcastically. “I’ll try.”
There’s a moment of awkward tension where the both of us just stand there, my hands still on hers as we actively avoid eye contact.
“Um, so where will I be staying. Do you have a guest room?”
The question is so harmless, but I can’t avoid how my mind kicks up the image of her staying in my room, in my bed, and my cock twitches beneath my pants.
“Right,” I grit out, looking around the living room like I don’t already know where the hallway is. “Uh, it’s this way.”
Clara cocks a brow at me. “Are you all right?”
Great, so that sounded just as pained as I thought. Fuck.
“Yeah, just my side being a pain in the ass.”
With a smirk, Clara turns toward the long hall to the left, her hips swaying as she walks. “Bet you wish you listened to me and took those pain meds now, don’t you?”
I watch her head off, the curves of her ass trying to hide from me in those damned scrubs.
“I’m wishing for a lot of things, doc.”
I don’t say it loud enough for her to hear me, even if a part of me wishes I did.
That part of me is the one clamoring for a return to the flirting full force, but the woman has literally just been through an attack, and I tell it to shut up.
Following after her, I take the hall I barely use to the guest room that sits way down on the left.
It’s furnished simply but has everything a guest would need. Even if this is your first guest, right Luke?
Clara stands at the end of the hall waiting, and I approach, opening the guest door wide and gesturing for her to enter.
She does and heads for the queen bed in the middle of the room. Clara sets the bag of clothes on the mattress and then looks back at me.
“Well, this probably isn’t surprising, but I’d like to change.”
Clara pauses with her hand in the bag, her lips rolling between her teeth.
“Don’t let me stop you.”
