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I wasn’t a crazy person, so I wasn’t wearing like an overly tropical dress or anything. A theme restaurant didn’t mean cosplay. But I still fit into a sundress that I liked to wear on trips to the beach with James. It was what was underneath that was going to surprise him. I’d slipped into his favorite bikini, one he’d bought me during our first few weeks of dating. Because I’d lost my other one. And by lost I mean we went skinny dipping and had sex in the ocean. And while we were doing that, a bunch of horny little boys stole my bikini. James had replaced it with this one…which was much nicer.

I was lucky that it still felt more like summer than fall, because even though my dress would have looked cute with boots, my bikini would not have. I pulled on my high heeled sandals and strapped them up tight. And then I contorted my arm into an awkward angle so I could zip the back of my dress without assistance. My reveal was supposed to be a surprise. So if James zipped me and saw the bikini, the whole thing would be ruined. I turned to look in the mirror. The dress was flowy over my stomach, so it masked my growing baby bump.Perfect.

James emerged from the bathroom, a cloud of steam billowing around him. The towel around his waist was just begging to be pulled off.

“You’re licking your lips,” James said.

Really? Oops.“I was not,” I said with a laugh.

“Mhm.” He walked into the closet and grabbed a pair of khakis he usually saved for teaching.

Was he trying to torture me? He knew what him dressing like a professor did to me. I didn’t even pretend not to gawk at him as he dropped his towel to the floor. I don’t know if I’d actually been licking my lips earlier, but I definitely was now as he slid his tight ass into his boxers. I shamelessly watched him finish getting dressed.

He walked out of the closet, rolling up the sleeves of his dress shirt.

Fuck me now.

Instead, he grabbed me around the waist, pulling me close. “You look breathtaking.”

I smiled.Just wait until you see the bikini.“You too.”

He laughed. “I look breathtaking? That sounds so weird when you say it to me.”

I placed my hand against his strong chest. “You’ll be horrified to know that I describe you as gorgeous in my book then.”

“Gorgeous? That is a very unmasculine term.”

“Don’t worry. All the things you do to me in it are very masculine.”

He raised his left eyebrow.

“And as much as I’d love to recreate one of those moments right now…we’re going to be late.” I slapped his butt and then stepped away from him.Two could play the teasing game.

He ran his fingers through his hair as his eyes drank me in. “So tonight’s the first night of our five months of seduction?”

Oh yes.I was going to seduce the crap out of him. “Just you wait and see.” I grabbed his hand and led him out of the bedroom. I could feel the sexual tension in the air when we stepped onto the elevator. James gripped my hand a little tighter.

I smiled up at him.

And he winked at me.

“What was that wink for?”

“You’ll see,” he said.

“What are you planning?”

“You’ll see,” he said again.

He wasn’t supposed to be planning anything. I’d already planned something. I was the one seducing him for a change.

He guided me out of the elevator and out the front doors of our building.

Ian was leaning against the car, talking on his cell phone.

“I gotta go,” he said as we approached. “I love you too.” He quickly hung up, looking a little embarrassed.

“How is Jen?” I asked.