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"I have a question," I call to him in the bathroom

"Shoot," he calls back

"Did you have a butt-double in yourit back in a ponytail

"Uh…" I hear water running in the sink and he pokes his head out the door

"No"

"Oh" How do I feel about this?

"I thought you didn’t see the movies?" He flashes his half smile at me Swoon!

"I didn’t That was a particularly favorite scene of Jules’" I explain

"Ah" He disappears back into the bathroom for a few minutes then reappears in fresh red boxers – drool! –and pulls on his discarded jeans and white button down shirt

"I don’t kno I feel about that" I murmur as I watch him dress

"Why?"

"I don’t think I like it that everyone in the free world has seen your ass"

He pullshis hands at my low back

"Why, Natalie, are you jealous?"

"Of about a hundredyou?" I raise an eyebrow

"What’s to be jealous of?"

"Absolutely nothing" He gently sweeps his lips over mine in that way he has that makes my knees all weak

"Your hands and eyes are the only ones I want on ainst histo stay here this weekend,"

I step back out of his arrab a few things I hadn’t planned on a weekend vacation"

"Let’s go do that now, then come back here"

"You want to spend all weekend here at the house?"

"Most of it, yes" He bringsout here today, do whatever you want Let me cook for you and take care of you"

My jaw drops, I’o to my parents’ house withevery Sunday, and I think my brother’s in town for the weekend"

"I can’t meet your family!" I pull my hands out of his and wrap my arms around my stomach Meet his family!

"Why not?"

"You’ve known rabs ain and smiles lazily down into rill, Nat It’s no biggie I want you tokind of fast?"