Page 72 of An Endless Memory

I kept staring at my phone. When it vibrated, I nearly dropped it on my face. He was calling.

I answered with a “Hey.”

“Hey. Did I catch you at a bad time?”

My breathlessness was from my scramble to answer. “No. I’m in bed.”

“I wanted to hear your voice.”

“Oh.” I did a little wiggle. Pure giddiness. “Well, here I am.”

“You sound as sexy as ever.”

I didn’t recognize my giggle. I didn’t make those sounds. “So do you. The first thing I noticed about you was your voice.”

“The first? I need to work on my ass.”

More laughter. “I was a little distracted the first time. I could barely look at you.”

“I noticed. I thought I had cookie on my face, but I didn’t even have one because Bug knocked them over and ate them.”

“I was a mess that day.”

“A cute mess.”

Cute. There it was again.

“You weren’t a mess,” Eliot reassured me. “Or was it the cute that silenced you? Oh shit, it was cute. I said it the night we first kissed, and you got quiet.”

“No, cute’s fine.”

“I can’t quit looking at your tits. How about that?”

I grinned. “I like that.”

“You’re sexy as fuck, Lily.”

“You don’t have to?—”

“You’re adorable. You’re cute. But I can’t quit thinking about how much you’d flush once I buried myself inside of you and got you off again. If that’s not sexy, I don’t know what is.”

Heat coursed through my veins and a throb hummed between my thighs. “When you put it that way…”

“Trust me. I’d put it a lot of ways if we were in the same room.”

“What exactly would you do?” Horror flashed cold into my lungs. I did not just ask that.

“You really want to know?” His voice was deep and rough.

“Yes,” I whispered, afraid he’d keep going but terrified he’d stop.

There was a rustle of clothing on the other end. “You said you were in bed? Are you alone?”

“Yes.”

“Slide that hand of yours down your belly and tell me how wet you are.”

Shivers of arousal rippled over my skin, but I did as he asked. I closed my eyes, moved my sleep top out of the way, and imagined it was his calloused fingertips running over my abdomen.

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