Page 44 of Sheltered By Love

I shake off the thought and drain the last of my coffee.

“I need to go get a curtain and some clothes from home. Can you stay here with her?”

“What’s the curtain for?”

“I forgot the one in the bathroom is see-through. She’s worried I’ll be using the cameras at mine to spy on her.”

Levi’s eyebrow hikes. “Where is she?”

“In the shower.”

He sits up a little straighter and seems to lose a little of his tiredness. “Where’d you say the camera feed was again?”

I smack him around the head as I breeze out the backdoor. “Don’t even think about it.”

Felicity

After bracing myself for seeing Zane again, I breathe a sigh of relief when it’s the youngest Reid brother sitting at my kitchen table drinking coffee Zane must have made.

He grins at me. “Zane’s over at his place. You’re stuck with me till he gets back.”

I smile back at him and open the cupboard so I can get out my breakfast. “I’m having cereal, would you like a bowl?”

He smiles even wider. “Yes, please, and thank you, ma’am.”

When I hand him a bowl and place the box on the table he whistles. “The fancy stuff too. How about when this is all over, I take you out? Show you how beautiful the Bay is.”

It’s such a change from Mr. Grumpy, I laugh. “Maybe.”

Even though it’s apparent he’s a born flirt, Levi’s easy company. No wondering what’s going on in his head, he just says what he’s thinking without any real filter.

“I’m surprised guys haven’t been lining up offering to take you out. You’re gorgeous,” he adds with a great deal of flourish.

My cheeks blush in pleasure at the compliment. While it makes sense Zane is single, and Garrett, I suppose is too busy for romance, I’m surprised the youngest of the brothers is.

Physically all the brothers are good-looking. But while Garrett has darker features, with his surfer-like blonde locks, cheeky grin, and attitude, Levi is so flirty he’d make any girl smile.

I’m not sure whether him flirting with me is better than sitting in stony silence with Zane who probably thinks I was flirting with him.

Levi carries on eating, motoring his way through two bowls of cereal in the time it takes for me to eat one before he spies Zane’s phone on the counter.

“Wicked,” he says.

I’m finishing up my last mouthful when he picks it up, fiddles with it, and starts laughing. “What are you doing?”

He winks at me, then slides his hands back in his pockets and leans against the counter. “Trying to get him to loosen up. He used to be fun.”

I can’t imagine a time when Zane Reid was fun. It’s almost mind-boggling.

He doesn’t give me any real time to cogitate on that before he speaks again. “Is it weird sleeping in Zane’s old room with him in the house?” he says.

I swallow hard. “I didn’t realize I was.”

He nods. “Why’d you choose it? Garrett’s room and Mom and Dad’s old room are bigger.”

I’ve never really had to answer this. I suppose it does seem a little weird that I chose a small room.

“I don’t know. It just felt right to be in there,” I say.

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