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She seizes the opportunity to climb onto my back. I wrap my arms around her legs and she clings to my neck.
All the while, I’m expecting an argument out of Nolan. But he just stands there frozen, staring at me.
Why is he staring at me like that? And why is it making me hot? The air is suddenly a thousand degrees.
My chest heaves as his dark blue eyes drag downward over my body. It’s then that I realize that I’m wearing only the old Beatles T-shirt he loaned me last night. Somehow it feels the same as not wearing anything at all.
Time to get out of here. Too damn early for all the half-naked-DILF energy in this room.
“Where to, my lady?” I ask Stella, strolling out the door, right past her father.
We barely make it into the hallway before Nolan scoops the child off my back. He gently places her on her feet.
She whines and he gives her a nudge toward the bathroom door. “Off to brush your teeth, favorite little human.”
Stella sighs. “Fine.”
“You need help with the new toothpaste?” he questions.
“No, Daddy! I’m a big girl. Remember?”
“Right.” Nolan shakes his head, watching Stella run toward the bathroom. “How is she growing up so fast?” he mutters as the door closes in his face.
The both of us somehow manage to turn at the same time. We end up face-to-face in the narrow hallway. I should probably try and answer whatever he just asked, but then I forget what the question even was.
Because water droplets drip onto his collarbone, rolling down onto his bare, muscled chest and my spellbound eyeballs follow the trail. I smell his woodland scent much stronger now. It makes my nipples tingle, growing tight and pebbled.
“You sleep well?”
I snap out of my daze and my eyes bounce up to his.
I swallow guiltily. “Huh?”
Daddy Sex Devil makes an impressive effort to hide his smirk. He fails.
Ugh. He caught me gawking. Whatever.
I’m only human. And this man is a living, breathing thirst trap without even trying to be.
His chin juts in the direction of the couch. “Did…you…sleep…well…?” he asks again, enunciating his words slowly this time. So I can keep up.
“Um, good. Yeah, great. Good. I slept great!” I shake off the remnants of my haze and return my attention fully to the conversation at hand. “Thanks again for letting me stay here,” I say, my voice upbeat and chipper beyond belief.
He frowns at me. “I told you—it’s no big deal. Now, stop thanking me. You’re making shit weird.”
I chuckle. The man can be mercilessly blunt sometimes. “You’re an asshole.”
His thick eyebrow hikes upward and his stormy blue eyes twinkle with blanketed amusement. He strokes a hand over his short, scruffy beard as if to push away his smile.
“Inez Carolina Machado—that’s no way to talk to your boss.”
When he calls me by my full…legal…government name, I clench between the thighs. Oh, shit—why was that so hot?
“Former boss,” I remind him coolly. “Unless you’re hiring…?” I shift my weight, embarrassed to meet his eyes. “Is there any chance you need an extra pair of hands around the bar?”
On the drive last night, I’d been wanting to ask him for my old job back. But I wasn’t sure how to bring it up. After all, I left town with so much flair and fanfare, throwing a whole parade about how I was moving on from my life here in Starlight Falls.
Now look at me, back in my hometown and practically begging for my former gig. I’m swallowing my pride by the bucketful here.
