Chapter 231

The noise runs through me like a gun being shot off in the room and I’m suddenly, instantly, gaspingly awake, looking around for whatever horrible apocalyptic thing is shrieking for us to run, to hide, to flee –

But then, almost in the next instant, I realize that it’s just that fucking alarm clock

Kent groans beneath me, hardly moving at all, apparently used to it. He opens his eyes, though, which I smack him hard in the chest.

“Ooof,” he says, frowning at me and rubbing his pectoral where I hit him. “What the hell was that for?”

“Turn that thing off!” I shriek, pointing to the alarm clock. “Before I have a heart attack!”

Kent just laughs and rolls over towards the clock, grabbing it off the nightstand and pressing the button on top. It instantly goes silent and Kent drops it on the bed before he turns back to me.

“Told you it would wake the dead.”

“It woke me!” I growl, hitting him again, which just makes him laugh more. “And I almost died from fright!”

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it,” Kent asks, grabbing me by the waist and pulling me back down to the sheets, twisting so that he pins me there with his body on top of mine, “that you can stand up to me without a second thought, but a little alarm clock you

fit body, getting to feel the weight of him pressing me into the mattress. “I can’t seduce the clock into doing what

between my collar bones and then shifting his body to drop another kiss lower, and then another kiss lower. “And here I

have to gain,” I murmur, smiling as I watch him. and sinking my fingers deep into his hair. “I

Taking his meaning – that my body

putting my hand on his check, working hard to hold back the full extent of my sly smile as I ask the question that’s been burning in me for hours. “Why

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closet my size?”

the closet and consider it. “And

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on my shoulder. “The women’s clothes, Kent. I thought they’d be

pleased I noticed but a little chagrined that I’m inquiring.

it stocked,” Kent murmurs, leaning forward to rest his forehead against

ago?” I gasp, shocked. I had assumed

eyes and letting me put the pieces together.

quietly as he pulls away to look at me. “You knew you’d get me in your bed at some

me seriously for a moment, as if deciding what to tell me. Then, he

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