Page 40 of Sparks Flying

“No one will think anything of it.”

Pain sliced through my chest at his insinuation. Was that because he frequented the place with all his women?

“Hey, what just happened?”

“Nothing,” I lied.

He gave me a skeptical look but didn’t call me out on it.

“First floor or second?”

“Second?”

“Room number?”

“206.”

“Okay. Go inside and then open the bathroom window. No one will see a thing. There won’t even be anything on camera.”

He started taking off his clothes.

“What are you doing?”

“I can just leave them here if you want, but I thought I might need them once inside.”

His smile was full of insinuations that made me nervous as hell.

What was I doing?

I’d never really been alone with a man before unless you counted Oscar, which I did not. And I certainly had never been alone with Oscar naked.

I tried not to look at his naked form as he handed me his clothes. Snatching them up, I ran across the street and up the stairs until I reach my room. That was when I realized I didn’t have a key. So, I had to walk back downstairs and retrieve an extra one from the lobby. Only the guy manning the desk was asleep, and I was positive I was going to wake the entire complex as I banged on the window to wake him up.

Finally, after what seemed like forever, I had the key, walked back upstairs, and let myself into my room.

Surely Dean had given up and flown home after all of that, but I couldn’t help myself, I had to check.

When I opened the window, he wasn’t there.

I sighed and started to close it when a big black bird flew inside.

His sudden appearance made me jump, but I refrained from screaming.

“I thought you’d have left by now.”

“Nah. I saw you run back down to get the key. Kenny can be a bitch to wake up when he’s working the night shift. Always falls asleep and most of the time he can get away with it.”

“Not today.”

“Not today,” he agreed.

We were standing in the crammed little bathroom and it dawned on me that he was entirely naked. Without thinking, my eyes drifted lower. I’d already seen him naked, but this time Ireally took a good look at him. I watched as his male member sort of jumped. I didn’t know it could do that and after the day I just had I found it funny. I tried not to laugh, though. I didn’t want him to feel self-conscious about it.

“What are you laughing at?”

“Nothing.”

“Bailey?”

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