Page 52 of My Boss's Sons

I sat on the edge of my bed and wrapped my blanket around me tighter when I saw Ava and Milo inching their way in. “Not a word, Ava.”

She waved her hand. “So what if you’re sneaking your boyfriend in? It’s your house and you’re a grown woman.”

“I’m just glad they didn’t go into my shed.” Milo wiped imaginary sweat off his forehead and whistled. “Talk about lucky.”

Ava elbowed him. “I told you not to keep so much weed in there that you could get in trouble.”

“Sorry!”

Noah grabbed his shirt from the ground and pulled it on. While doing the buttons, he watched me. “I’m sorry. If I hadn’t crawled in through the window, the cops wouldn’t have been here at all.”

I shot a look at Ava. “Aren’t you two going back to bed?”

She winked and backed out of my room. “Say less. Go ahead and finish whatever y’all had going on. We’ll just be in our room, celebrating you getting your groove back.”

I groaned and flopped back in the bed after they closed the door. “Well. I guess it could’ve been worse.”

Noah sat down next to me and leaned over so I could see his face. “Oh, yeah?”

I nodded. “You could’ve still been inside me.”

“I would’ve been forced to kill them if they dragged me out of you before we were finished.” He stroked my hair out of my face and smiled. “It was memorable.”

I rolled my eyes but found myself smiling back. “Can’t say I’ll ever be able to forget it. I’m sure my neighbors won’t, either. I think I saw Mr. Jimmy peeking out of his window at your ass.”

“I guess I should go now that I’ve scandalized the neighbors and embarrassed you.” He sat back and sighed. “Ethan and Alex will love this story.”

I sat up and watched him finish getting dressed. I wanted to ask him to stay but that was crazy. I was letting things get out of hand. “Okay. Thanks.”

He stopped mid-movement and dropped the shoe he’d been pulling on. “What’s wrong?”

I forced a smile and shook my head. “Nothing. Nothing! I’m just tired.”

He finished pulling on his shoe and walked over to stand right in front of me. “Liar.”

“I’m not lying, Noah.” I felt myself getting worked up and tried to hold my tongue.

“Coward.” His smirk said he knew what he was doing. “Say what you’re thinking.”

I stood up and still had to glare up at him. “I’m not a coward.”

“Then prove it.”

“I don’t want you to leave!” I shoved my way around him, still clutching the blanket around myself. “It’s stupid and it doesn’t matter. I was just having a moment. We didn’t have to make it a thing.”

I waited for him to say something snarky back but he was silent. I had my back to him and as the silence stretched on, I was more and more embarrassed.

“I’m not being clingy. I just like cuddling, but it doesn’t matter. I sleep just fine all by my-” I turned around and saw that Noah was naked again, standing next to my bed with laughter sparkling in his eyes. “What?”

He pulled back the sheet and gestured for me to get in. “I was only leaving because I thought that you didn’t want us staying over. You’ve extended the invitation now, so there are no take-backs. Get in the bed and cuddle.”

My heart ached at the sweetness. My brain wanted to argue more but I just dropped the blanket on the end of the bed and climbed in. Noah fixed the blanket and crawled in behind me, wrapping his larger body around mine.

“You like me.” He kissed the back of my head. “You can’t even deny it. You were ready to throw a tantrum at the idea of me leaving.”

I groaned. “Shut up, Noah.”

“You even started to call me your boyfriend.”

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