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“My absolute favorite,” I confirm.
“I’ll have to remember that,”
I nod, unwrapping the candy before taking a bite. Something about coconut and chocolate just goes so perfectly together.
“Do you want to talk to me about what happened earlier?” he asks, reaching for my hand. I grab it, climbing onto the bed. I sit on my knees beside him, grabbing another candy.
Ronan looks at me for a second before grabbing the towel from around me, pulling it off. I immediately cover myself, but he doesn’t even look at me as he slides the large grey shirt he’s wearing off of himself.
“Arms up,” he says. I do as he says, curious, and he slides the shirt on me.
I’m stunned. “I,” I start, not knowing what to say. “I don’t have anything to say right now, no. It’s not you, I promise. I loved everything about that,” I assure him genuinely.
“I didn’t go too far?”
I shake my head. “No, not at all. That was amazing.”
He nods, pursing his lips.
In the dim light, his beard looks even thicker, and it makes me smile. He really doesn’t need it, but I won’t lie and say he doesn’t look incredibly sexy with it.
I crumple up the wrappers in my hands, placing them back in the bowel. “Can we go to bed? I’m really tired.”
He studies me for another moment before nodding, grabbing my hips, and pulling me toward him. Flipping me, he lifts the covers and lets me get under them before pulling me into him. I can feel him through his boxers against my bare ass.
Ronan wraps his arm around my waist, securing me at his side before he tucks his head into the crook of my neck, breathing deep.
“Did you use my body wash?” he mumbles into me.
“And what if I did?”
“Keep doing it.”
* * *
When I wake in the morning, Ronan is nowhere to be found.
Shiloh is curled in my arms, his soft purrs waking me up gently as I blink away the sleep. Last night feels like a fever dream, but so has every single night since I first ran into Ronan Miller.
I wonder when it’s going to stop feeling like one.
“Where did Ronan go?” I ask the grey cat next to me. He blinks at me lazily as if to say he doesn’t care. He could go jump in a ditch somewhere, and he’d probably be happy.
“You’re right. You’re not the one to ask, are you?”
Sighing, I climb out of bed, heading to the closet to throw on some clothes.
Choosing a pair of fitted jeans and a ribbed tank top, I grab a cardigan, throwing it on over it all to keep warm. As the days get shorter and shorter, the compound gets more and more chilly, and I’ve only been here a few days. Ronan said that Jerry waits until the very last moment to turn on the heat, despite the fact that she doesn’t have to personally pay the heating bill.
Throwing on some socks, I walk out of the room, closing the door quietly behind me so Shiloh can’t get out. He’s much too curious to have access to the entire compound, and I don’t feel like having to find him in the sea of cars around us.
The low mumble of voices has me looking down into the kitchen, finding everyone there.
I stand there for a moment, watching them as they move around each other. Jerry stands at the kitchen island, watching as Elena once again makes a pan of eggs, checking the bacon she has cooking in the oven. When the toast pops up from the toaster, Elena shows Jerry the slice, to which Jerry shakes her head, asking her to put it in for longer. Elena takes all the other slices out, laying them on a plate before putting hers back in.
Brandon watches Elena as he gets the orange juice from the fridge. Zach retrieves cups from the cabinet.
Meanwhile, Ronan goes over paperwork at the counter, asking Jerry something I can’t hear. She looks at him before spotting me from above. She doesn’t glare at me, but she doesn’t smile either. Instead, she just looks.
