Page 39 of Autumn's Coming

Chapter Fifteen

Autumn

This didn’t feel real.

I couldn’t believe this was happening. I couldn’t believe I was sitting here. I couldn’t believe I was dressed so beautifully, sitting next to a man like Cody.

It was hard to keep myself from laughing inappropriately loud.

I looked to Cody, taking his hand and squeezing it.

Something felt different between us, in the best of ways.

And as I looked at him, I knew I needed him.

Right now.

I took his hand gently. “Walk with me?”

“Of course. Where?”

“Um, the bathroom?”

He blinked. “I—all right.”

I gave him a smile.

He blinked, then nodded knowingly.

Smart man.

Together, we walked through the hotel until we found a place secret enough—a coat closet, left unattended.

I looked up at him. “How quiet can you be?”

Cody smiled. “Very.”

“Good.”

But the real question was, how quiet could I be?

We stepped into the closet and I pulled him into a hard kiss.

He nudged me up against the wall.

This was going to be hard, and fast, and hot, and I was ready for it.

I looked up at him, lifting the skirt of my gown. I’d put on a thong under it, in the hopes that something like this would happen.

He grinned, running his fingers over the high-cut thigh. “Mm. Very nice.”

I smiled. “Pull it down?”

Cody wasted no time. He pulled my thong down and I stepped out of it.

He picked it up and slipped it into his pocket.

I gasped.

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