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In the kitchen, she e jumble of blankets on the couch didn’t move, so she had to assu water to the machine, she set the coffeepot to brew She turned at the sound of a door opening Startled, she glanced over at the couch The jumble of covers still hadn’t moved

"Then where is--"

Kay squeaked in surprise when Eli walked past, a white torapped around his waist His skin was still da to his neck Without the barrier of clothing, his muscles stood out in stark display His chest was massive, and then there were the perfectly delineated abdominals Once her eyesht down to his--

At her gasp, he stopped and looked at her with raised eyebrows "Morning Everything okay?"

Stunned, it took her several ister the question Then severalin theat the towel around his waist The incredibly tiny towel

"You’re n…naked," she stammered

"I am" Eli didn’t bother to hide or run for cover Oh no, the jerk had the nerve to coenerally how I take et her eyes to land anywhere other than the broad expanse of his chest "Really, really big"

His lips curled up at that statement and Kay immediately realized what she’d just said "I ht-pack? I didn’t even know there were that ht to be some sort of law about how fine a ruff and difficult to understand It was bad enough that she couldn’t figure out his signals, but now she was supposed to think while confronted by a chest that looked like it had been chiseled out of concrete?

"Kay?"

"H ot So I need to finish getting dressed"

"Right Of course"

When she still didn’t e of the tohere it was tucked next to his skin "I generally don’t have an audience for this part, but if you want to stay… "

Now that got her attention

"Oh uely like an apology and then ran for her rooainst the door

Of course Eli was the type to be up at the crack of dawn As if being built like a linebacker and covered in skin like dark chocolate wasn’t sexy enough, he was an early riser who probably ran threeabout hi?

Her phone beeped on the nightstand With a sigh, Kay sat on the edge of the bed and leaned over to read the text e It was from Ridley