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I popped one eye open. “You have a one-track mind.”
He shifted his body, leaning closer to me. “Let’s make a bet. If you win, I’ll take off my trunks. If I win, then you take off your top.”
I pushed him away with a hand. Was I flirting with him? “It sounds like a win-win for you.”
He grinned and shrugged nonchalantly.“A win-win would be both of us getting naked.”
I eyed him warily as I cautiously replied, “And what is this bet?”
A look of triumph — like he’d already won — gleamed in his eye. “I bet that I can make you laugh in the next five minutes.”
I felt a bead of sweat drip down my neck. “Please, you are so going to lose. I never laugh at jokes. You could tell the funniest joke in all of history and I won’t even crack a smile.”
“I guess we’re on then.” He held out his hand for me to shake.
“Okay.” I shook his hand. “But how are we going to know when five minutes is up without a timer?”
He pushed away my concerns as if they didn’t matter. “We’ll have to estimate it. I’ll leave it up to you to decide when the time is up.”
I narrowed my eyes at him suspiciously. He’d better have something up his sleeve, or this was going to be a cakewalk. “Fine. You have the next five minutes to make me laugh. Let the games begin.”
He patted his thigh. “Come sit on my lap.”
“What?” I scoffed. “You think that’s going to make your jokes funnier? Spoiler alert: it’s not.”
He didn’t even crack a smile. “Then come over here. I dare you.”
He dared me? What was this insanity? And why was I standing up and stepping toward him?
Ever since waking up curled around him this morning, I’d wanted to touch him again. Here we were, all hot and sweaty, with lots of skin showing. No wonder I couldn’t stop myself.
I crossed over to him and sat daintily on his lap, but he anchored his hands on my hips and pulled my back snugly against him. My head fell back against his chest when his lips touched my neck. He was kissing me, and then his tongue was following a drop of moisture as it ran down my neck into the hollow of my shoulder.
I gasped. “What are you doing?”
“I’m trying to make you laugh,” he grumbled against my skin.
Desire crashed through me. “That’s ... that’s not going to work.”
He chuckled, low and deep, the sound vibrating against my skin. “Maybe not, but I bet I can make you do something else.”
I shivered at the promise in his words. This dare had taken a turn I hadn’t anticipated. But why did it feel so right?
He nipped at my shoulder, his teeth grazing over the sensitive skin. I moaned, a sound that surprised me as much as it seemed to surprise him.
“You like that,” he said, his voice thick with arousal.
I tried to deny it, but my body was betraying me. I shifted on his lap, trying to find some relief from the throbbing ache between my legs. I couldn’t focus on anything else but him and the way he was touching me.
“Stop,” I said weakly, even as I arched my back to give him better access. “We shouldn’t be doing this.”
He nipped at my earlobe, making me gasp. “Who says we can’t have a little fun?” he whispered hotly in my ear before trailing kisses down my neck and collarbone.
I couldn’t find the words to argue, not when every touch from him was making me feel so alive. I found myself grinding against him, wanting more of the pleasure he was giving me.
Just as I was about to reach my peak, the light on the sauna wall suddenly came on. We were supposed to move from this room to the next.
Reluctantly, I broke apart from him. I hauled in a shaky breath. My body burned for more of his touch, and I looked away, belatedly embarrassed by my wanton behavior. “That’s our cue to leave.”
