Page 54 of Behind the Scenes

“Okay. I get it.”

Happy again, she smiled. “Thank you. So you will distract everyone long enough for me to get back to my room?”

“On one condition,” he said with a chuckle as he sat back down on the bed.

“What? One condition? Fine. What is it?”

Hunter leaned back against the headboard and put his arms behind his head. “Tell me what you would have said if they asked you how I was in bed,” he said with a grin.

“What?”

“You heard me. What would you tell them?”

She huffed and marched around the bed to stand in front of him. “That you’re fine in bed but difficult outside of it.”

“Just fine?” he asked, stifling a chuckle at how cute she was when she got angry.

She put her hands on her hips and scowled down at him. “I’m not going to compliment you just because you’re fishing for them. Now please distract everyone like you said you would so I can run to my room.”

Happy to hear she enjoyed herself, he stood up with a hard-on that was visible in his pants and smiled. “We’re missing a perfectly good opportunity here.”

Fixing her gaze on the bulge in his pants, she shook her head. “Are you always ready like that?”

Hunter walked over to her and kissed her on the neck just below her ear. “I am when I’m around a gorgeous woman like you.”

She closed her eyes and sighed. “Please don’t make this more difficult for me than it has to be. I just need to get to my room so no one knows I was in here.”

“So I’ll run interference while you go to your room. Nobody will be the wiser.”

Opening her eyes, she looked him up and down. “Button your pants and get that smile off your face. Everyone is going to know you did something.”

“I’m a grown man. I get to have sex. If I’m lucky, I get to have great sex with a beautiful woman.”

A knock at the door startled her, and she shook her head, her eyes wide with fear. “Don’t let them know I’m here!”

He mouthed, “Okay,” and opened the door a crack to see Lauren standing there looking frazzled. “Morning, Lauren. What’s up?”

“I’m worried about Alexis. I’ve knocked on her door twice, but she hasn’t answered. After yesterday and how she stayed in her room all night, I’m scared.”

“I’m sure she’s fine, but let’s gather everyone in the kitchen. I’ll be right there. Do me a favor and round everyone up.”

“Okay. Thank you, Hunter.”

“Don’t worry. We’ll make sure she’s taken care of. I bet she just slept in after an excitable night.”

“I hope so. I worry about her.”

Lauren ran off to do as he told her to, and Hunter closed the door. Turning to look back at Alexis, he said, “Operation Distraction is underway. Give me a couple minutes and then I think you’ll be in the clear.”

“I slept in after an excitable night?”

The memory of how good their sex had been made him smile. “Well, I couldn’t very well tell her you slept late because I kept you up having mind blowing sex.”

His joke didn’t make her smile, so he asked, “What’s wrong? I was just teasing. I’m sure Lauren didn’t know what I was talking about. Everything’s going to be fine.”

Looking down at her feet, Alexis quietly asked, “Are you with someone, Hunter? Did you cheat on someone last night?”

Surprised at the question, he shook his head. “No. Why?”

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