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He gestures to the screen. “I don’t want to miss the game.”
“It’s a commercial.”
“Shhh…you’re being too loud.”
Pushing myself off the couch, I make my way over to the door, half expecting to see Collins through the peephole. He would do something like that…drop me off for a minute and come get me again because he can.
Instead, I see Rex standing out in the hallway, holding a pizza box. I haven’t seen him since the dating event that was such a disaster. Granted, that’s not that surprising since I haven’t seen much outside of the walls of Collins’s bedroom.
I unlock the door and allow him in.
“Hey, Penny,” he greets, giving me a one-handed hug.
“Hi. Are you coming to watch the game?”
“Yup. It’s going to be a good one too.”
I laugh. “Of course, you can predict the future.”
He shrugs. “It’s part of my charm.”
Walking inside, Rex places the box down onto the coffee table, and the boys dig right in for a greasy slice.
“Is there even cheese on those things?”
Talking with a mouth full, Luke mumbles, “It’s under all the meat.”
I make a face. “Sounds manly.”
“Oh, it is,” Rex says with a laugh.
Luke pats the space between him and Rex. “Come join the threesome.”
I walk down the hall to my room, calling back, “I would have if you didn’t just make it weird.”
“Dammit,” I hear both of them hiss.
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“You’re the only person I know who wakes up and immediately needs to take a nap.”
Stretching my arms above my head, my fingers play along the headboard, as a yawn escapes my lips. “I feel like ever since I’ve been invited into your bed, you have made it impossible to think about sleep much.”
“That’s because your pussy is a greedy little thing.”
Rolling on top of Collins, I giggle as his fingers tease along my sides. “I don’t remember you complaining.”
“Never. That was a compliment.”
I laugh even harder. “When has calling anything greedy been a good thing?”
We spend the next few minutes laughing over absolutely nothing in particular. And it feels good.
It feelstoogood.
Yesterday, we spent a couple of hours apart, and I missed him—a lot. Despite having my own apartment separate from Collins, it’s his enigmatic personality that makes me gravitate toward him.
