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He called her number, but she didn’t pick up He texted her: Answer your phone

She texted back: No

Then call me

No You’ll teleport to my bedroom

He smiled She was on to hiers on the Droid, trying to come up with a reply that would make her call I have a stress ball that needs to be squeezed He winced and deleted that

He’d teleported to the Oval Office before, so he could get fairly close to her He texted: I’ Will search the White House until I find you

The phone rang

"Bingo" He answered it

"You can’t wander around the White House," she fussed at hiet yourself arrested - "

He focused on her voice and teleported

" - and then we’ll never make it to China And - " She jumped when he appeared next to her bed "You rascal, I knew you’d do that"

He grinned as he turned his phone off, then stuffed it into a front pocket of his jeans She was sitting against a blue tufted headboard on a queen-sized bed, glaring at him

"You should leave" She set her phone on the bedside table

"But I just got here" And she looked so sith her damp curls and freshly scrubbed face and old-fashioned pajamas Good God, how he’d love to peel those off Before his eyes could turn red, he shifted his gaze to look around her rooed the blue comforter up to her chin

"Smart move Those pajamas with little coffee cups on them are way too sexy I can hardly restrain myself"

She serie"

"That’s ae of her bed "Neither do I"

She laughed

"See how much we have in common?"

She kicked at hiori After three in the "

She nudged hiain "I’ve been up for twenty-two hours I want to sleep"

"No problem" He stood and turned off the laht, sweetheart" He could still see well in the dark, and he grinned at the way she squinted her eyes to follow his ?" she asked "What are you doing?"

He arrived at the other side of her bed and pulled back the sheet "You wanted to sleep" He cliasped "Not with you!"

He fluffed up his pillow "Youwith me on the trip"

"I will not"

"You want to sleep with the other guys?" He lay down beside her "I’ll have to beat theood for team spirit, but - "

"You can’t sleep in ori, you’re in the White House You don’t sneak into a girl’s bed in the White House!"

He glanced at the door "Is it locked?"

"Yes, but - "

"Is there a guard at the door?"

She shook her head "Down the hall by the stairs"

"Then we should be fine" He turned onto his side to face her and s as you don’t screa to sleep"

"I won’t stop you"

She gave him a wary look "Then why are you here?"

Why was he here? He’d never cliirl’s bed before just to talk "I "

She scooted down into a lying position "I’m tired Worried about ood They may take her to the hospital tomorrow if she doesn’t improve"

"I’hed "I sat with my dad for a few hours by her bedside He told me how sorry he was that I’d been unhappy"

"He loves you," Gregori whispered

"I love hiori "There are ti Like an outcast"

"I know the feeling I’azed at him It took all his control not to pull her into his ar "We do have a lot in common"

Ti incredibly deep and insightful to say So hard in my pants"

She moaned "Why am I not surprised?"

"Really uncoet a hold on it

"Oh God, don’t let it out"

"Got it!" He pulled his hand out and showed her the Droid

She laughed

He dropped the phone on the bedside table next to hi?"

"We’re going to sleep, right?"

"I thought you slept during the day"

"I do" He wrapped his arainst his chest "You’re just going to lie there? Sounds kind of boring"

"Not at all" He stroked her hair "I get to hold you Listen to you breathe Think"