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“Hurry!” I hit the button again.
“I already hit it!” Bri hissed. “I can’t make it go faster!”
“And I can’t be caught in a tiny space with the both of them. First off, Max’s ego is too big, Dustin’s anger is too palpable, and he has anger in his eyes!”
“You noticed too?” Bri asked.
“HIt it again!”
“I’m hitting it!” Bri elbowed me just as the doors opened, we stumbled in and she hit the close button like her life depended on it just as Max and Dustin rounded the corner.
“Oh. Shucks. The doors closed,” I said with fake enthusiasm. “Guess they’ll have to take the other elevator.”
“Hurry….” Bri stomped her foot.
“Dude, they’re gone.”
“No! I mean the elevator, not them! The steak might get cold, and you hate cold steak!”
Shit, I really did. “I know that. Don’t you think I don’t know that? The potatoes might get soggy too and you loathe soggy potatoes and don’t even get me started on the wine!”
We sighed in unison and said at the same time. “It has to breathe.”
We finally made it to the top floor, and both tried to leave at the same time, had the doors been narrower, we would have gotten stuck on each other as the doors opened to our floor and the long hallway to our penthouse.
I tapped the card against the door and opened it for her as the smell of steak filled the room.
It wasn’t even dinner yet; it was more like a late lunch, but I didn’t care. The fireplace was on, dinner looked incredible, and we had two bottles of wine already open on the table.
“Is this Heaven?” she whispered.
I grabbed her hand and lifted it to my lips, pressing a kiss against the back of it. “Now it is.”
“Twenty-seven, very smooth, Ace, very smooth.”
“They don’t call me Ace for nothing.”
“Aw.” she patted me on the head. “And you were batting a thousand just two seconds ago, only to strike out.”
“I knew I should have just taken the compliment.”
“Yup.”
“Drink?”
“Yes!”
I poured us each a glass; we clinked them together, but before she could bring hers to her lips, I gently grabbed her hand and twisted her glass toward me, then pressed a kiss to the glass and turned it back to her. She took a sip on my lip marks.
She was blushing, and I was grinning like an idiot as I said. “Twenty-seven.”
“You know…” She put down the glass. “…I’m wondering how they got this done so fast, we just won thirty minutes ago, is it haunted up here? Do they have the ghosts of interns working for Max too?”
“Who cares? It’s free food, a penthouse, and Patrick Swayze, you know, because ghost!”
“He’s so hot.”
“I will never win against that guy, ever.”
