Page 36 of Family Bonds: Coy & Angel

“You took the big one,” she said.

“Since I’m the only one living here, it seemed like the thing to do,” he said, laughing. “That one is empty.”

Which meant it could be for a woman one day. She didn’t pop her head in, no reason to. She guessed his was bigger, but maybe they were the same size.

The next room was the bathroom. “Dang,” she said. “Do you use that tub?”

It was a huge freestanding one. She didn’t want to think of him lying in there naked. Did the heat kick on? It sure the heck felt like it!

“Only a few times when I was sore from overdoing my workout,” he said. “It seemed the thing to do to put it in. Women like baths.”

“You know that from experience?” she asked. Maybe he was in there with women before.

Nope, not letting her mind go there.

“I hear my mother and sister-in-law, Amanda, talk about it all the time. The women at work do too. Do you like baths?”

“I do,” she said. “But I haven’t lived anywhere that had one lately. I still don’t.”

Her apartment had a nice modern shower that was roomy and she enjoyed that too.

“Maybe someday,” he said.

They moved past the bathroom and into his room and she tried hard not to look at his bed. Her eyes went to the double glass doors overlooking his deck and the water in the distance.

“I’m not sure I’d want to get out of bed if I saw that view every day,” she said.

“It is hard at times,” he said, laughing. “But I do it.”

“You get used to it,” she said. “And you know you get to see it again and again.”

“There is that,” he said.

He turned and walked out so she followed and they went upstairs where he showed her the rooms up there and then the suite that Spencer used.

“Now I know why Spencer likes coming here,” she said. “He’s got his own deck and view too.”

“He’s welcome any time he wants. I think he needs the break more than he wants to admit,” he said.

“I think so too. He never says much about his job. He worries about me burning out, but he’s the one doing it.”

“And you can’t say that to him or he gets defensive. He comes when he wants. We don’t even do much when he’s here. Sometimes we just hang out on the deck or down by the beach. Easy calm living.”

“I wouldn’t want to leave,” she said softly.

“Sometimes I think Spencer has to drag himself out of here too, but he can always come back.” Coy put his hand on her lower back to move past her and it felt as if her body was on fire. It was only a brief touch too. “We can go down to the basement now.”

“Your gym has to be there,” she said.

“It is,” he said.

When they got to the bottom of the stairs, she saw a big game room with a pool table, a massive TV on the wall, video game consoles and a poker table off to the side by a bar.

“This has to be Spencer’s dream,” she said. “He’s always talked about this.”

“He helped me set it up,” he said. “It’s a walk out to the property and you can see a bit of the water, but not as much as if you are on the decks.”

“More than enough,” she said.

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