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“The whole night? No alarm?”
“Nope.”
“We get to wake up together?”
“Yep.”
“So, I can go downstairs in the morning and grab us coffee and pastries and bring them up so we can have them in bed while you’re wearing my shirt?”
“Or you can stay in bed and I’ll get the pastries and coffee.”
“Not ready for Brooklyn to find out about us yet, huh?”
“Something tells me that news would spread like wildfire. Let’s just decide which direction the fire burns first, okay?”
“Okay. I’ll let you get the pastries and the coffees, but you still have to promise to get back in bed and wear my shirt. I like you in my clothes.”
He reached up and cupped my face, grazing his thumb across my cheekbone. “You look tired.”
“I didn’t sleep well last night,” I admitted.
“No?”
I shook my head.
“Neither did I.”
I swung my legs off his lap and stood up. “Let’s get an early night.”
We brushed our teeth side by side in the tiny bathroom. I kept looking over at him, wondering how this was real.
I’d gone from thinking Smoke and I had to end, to the realization that our relationship was allowed to breathe. I had a week to figure out what I was going to say to Tavy—and a week to find a present to give her so that she was in a good mood when I told her I was sleeping with her father.
I let out a giggle.
Smoke spit toothpaste into the sink. “What’s funny?”
I spoke around the toothbrush in my cheek. “My life. I feel like I belong on one of those talk shows where they drop some truth bomb on their friends and family and then chairs get thrown across the stage.”
“You didn’t accidentally sleep with my twin brother and are now pregnant, are you?”
“No, but that sounds like a pretty good set up for a romance novel.”
“Speaking of romance novels…I finally did some research about reverse harems…”
“Research? What kind of research?” I asked.
“I might’ve started reading one of them. You little bookworms are filthy.” He grinned. “I like it.”
I laughed and bumped my hip against his. I leaned over the sink and spit out the toothpaste. “Give me a minute. I need some privacy.”
He rinsed his toothbrush and set it in the holder and then left me alone and went into the bedroom. I closed the door and finished up my bedtime routine.
When I came out of the bathroom, Smoke was already supine in bed and his eyes were closed. By the rise and fall of his breath, I deduced he was asleep.
I turned off the light and gingerly climbed into bed next to him. With a sigh, I curled into him and closed my eyes.
His arm came around me and urged me closer.
