Page 81 of Dare Me

The bark of laughter was out before he could stop it. “Arianna…”

“What? I’m just helping us settle back into our usual routine. No biggie. So? Truth or dare?”

“I’m gonna go with dare,” he said as he fought the urge to laugh again.

“Ooh…good choice. Okay, so Idareyou to go to Ghirardelli and buy candy.”

“Uh-huh. Any kind that I am specifically being dared to get?”

“I wouldn’t say no to some of those truffles I got last time. You know, the dark chocolate ones. Oh, or maybe the squares with the peppermint? The salted caramel squares were good too…um…”

“Arianna?”

“Hmm?”

“Don’t worry. I promise to bring you home enough of a variety to make you very happy.”

“Yay! And I promise to have dinner waiting for you when you get home.”

He gasped in surprise. “Are you going to make something?”

“Um…”

“I mean, you don’t have to. Takeout is fine, but…I really enjoyed what you made for me that night.”

“So you want the shepherd’s pie again?”

“That would be awesome, but if there’s something else you like to make, I’d love that too.”

She made a small sound that he couldn’t quite decipher, but then she said, “I’ll think of something. If you text me when you land on Wednesday, I can time everything out so it’s hot and ready when you get home.”

“Well…dinner can wait. I think by the time I get there, I may be the one that’s hot and ready when I see you,” he said gruffly.

“Will,” she said with a giggle. “That sounded very naughty.”

“What can I say? It’s the truth. If you were here right now…”

“Don’t say it,” she begged. “Wednesday is already so far away. Almost a full forty-eight hours. What am I supposed to do with myself until then?”

Several ideas came to mind, but he wasn’t sure Arianna would be as into it as he was.

Only one way to find out…

“We could switch this over to a video chat?” he suggested. “And maybe…since we’re both in bed…we can play a naughtier version of truth or dare?”

“Oh my goodness, I love that! Give me five minutes and then hit me up on video!” she said excitedly before hanging up and Will figured he’d made the right suggestion.

Now, as he scrambled around the hotel room, he did his best to get ready for his first ever sexy video chat.

“This truth or dare shit is truly addictive,” he murmured, smiling the entire time.

It was like the travel gods were on his side because his flight left San Francisco on time and somehow landed fifteen minutes early. There were no lines as he paid for his parking and no traffic the entire way back to Laurel Bay. By the time he pulled into the parking lot, he was practically twitching with anticipation of seeing Arianna.

Their video chat the other night had been by far the most erotic thing he’d ever seen or done in his entire life.

So they did it again last night.

But tonight, he would get to touch her himself and do all the things to her he had dared her to do to herself.

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