Chapter Seven
DRAVEN
I wake up not really knowing where I am. The bed beneath me is so soft I honestly wonder if I might be asleep at all. Maybe I’m not asleep, maybe I am dead and in heaven.
But then the doorbell rings.
Did I have plans this morning? I think I did. I’m almost sure I did…but what?
I open my eyes. “Shit! What time is it?!”
The doorbell sounds again, and I fall out of bed reaching for the things I wore yesterday. “Fuck! I’m coming! Hold the hell on!”
Stumbling down the stairs in my dirty clothes, I flip the switch allowing the shades to reveal the heavy fog of morning crowding the yard. The sight brings a contented smile to my face.
Wow…it really is beautiful here.
Ding dong!!!!
“Jesus!” I screech, opening the door. “The fuck is your deal?”
He stands there looking sexy as hell, the hint of a smile on his face. “I told you nine a.m. sharp.”
Domonic.
Of course. I forgot all about the breakfast appointment.
tell him smoothly, rubbing the sleep from my
It’s ten in the morning. There’s an alarm clock on your nightstand.
not to notice how crisp and fuckable he looks in white sweats and a
are showing. And his muscles. And I want to put my
his perfume wafts toward me and
smell her all over him.
do I have the right
a few more minutes laughing because, I got what I wanted
and his smile disappears. “You got what you
shut the door in his face is thwarted by a bright
you we were going to have breakfast, and
saccharine grin.”No.
in amusment. A half smile quirking up as he wets his lips. “Margo
“Oh yeah? Did she mark
frown. His face looks so frighteneed for a second that I almost
Then
get stupid answers,
ticks his jaw, casting his eyes downward as if ashamed. “This
home, last night,” I quip at him and slanting my eyes as I push the
nervously, glancing left and right as if someone might jump in and save him from my wrath. “I was going to but I-,” he stops, crossing his arms over his chest and idadvertanlty making his pectorals more prominently visible. His face turns indignant, ” -wait a
in annoyance. “You’re just going to push yourself inside? You see? This is why I want to pay rent! So that I don’t have to let you in here and I don’t have to be nice to you.” I grant him
me, his eyes are shing with perverse pleasure. “You’re jealous,” he accuses, rotating his shoulders and
don’t like you or your bitch. I never intended to come to breakfast,” I lie. I was going to, but now that I know she only
he doesn’t know what else to say.
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