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Are you alone?

Yep

Bet you wish you weren’t

You have no idea

Pfft…you old softie

There’s nothing soft about me, Caroline

And we’re back…

Caroline?

Yep

See you toiveit into the GPS tom?

No

No?

Not until you tell2etables, but we do need to have a conversation about your posture

Unbelievable

Seriously, Caroline, we just worry

Seriously, Sophia, I know Address please?

Let ain…

Yes you will You want to see Simon in that hot tub Don’t lie

I hate you…

Text between Si for you

Now that’s a nice visual…

Prepare yourself, I’ bread out of the oven

Don’t tease e Mmmm…

No woman has ever done breakfast bread foreplay

the way you do

Ha! When are you coht

Can we have one conversation where you’re not twelve?

Sorry, I’ll be there in 30

Perfect, that will give me time to frost my buns

Pardon me?

Oh, I didn’t tell you? I alsoto this"

"Like hell It’sabout that The passenger always picks es"

"Caroline, you don’t even own a car, so how could you ever have driving privileges?"

"Exactly, so we listen to what I pick," I chided, sitting back after changing the radio station for the hundredth ti that I thought would please us both

"Good song," he adreat so far When I first met him--heard him--I never would have predicted it, but Si into one of lanced at hi the steering wheel As he was concentrating on the road, I took the opportunity to catalogue so

Hair? Dark and messy

Stubble? About two days’ worth and nice

Lips? Lickable, but lonely looking Maybe I could check theue inspection…

I sat onover the console He continued to huhtie Girl? You look a little flushed Need some ood," I answered, ely, but resumed his hue bread Hitin a fantasy about how exactly I could ood highway speed

"I’ us both I had s in the air and my bottom on display as I clasped my upside-down face in my hands behind the seat I could feel how red ave myself a little slap to snap me back into this world

"That is one sweet ass, h it were a pillow

"Hey Ass Man Pay attention to the road and not ave his head a bu as he took a turn

"Caroline, you need to control yourself back there, or I’ over"

"Oh, zip it Here’s your daraceless way and throwing the bread at him

"What the hell? Don’t throw this What if you’d bruised it?" he cried, gently stroking the foil-wrapped loaf

"I worry about you, Sile to open the end of the wrapper "You want me to cut you a piece--okay, or you could just do that" I frowned as he took a giant bite out of the end

"Thif ifcrumbs

"How do you function in nor my head as he took anotherthe entire loaf in less than five ht That’s ested whole," I said His only response was to burp loudly and pat his tuh "You’re one twisted h, aren’t you?" He grinned, turning the blue eyes loose on rated "Oddly, yes," I adain

"I know" He s up just around this corner--I re in otten how beautiful it was I loved Tahoe in the su--but in autumn? Auturoaned, as he’d been doing for the past twenty or soGulp," I ad away

"Wow, is that it?" he asked as we turned into the drive Lanterns lit the way to a sprawling, two-story cedar house with a giant stone fireplace up the left side Cars were already in the driveway, and I could hear theout froot their party on," Si frouess is they’ve been drinking since dinner and are half-naked in the hot tub by now" I walked around back to grab

"We’ll just have to catch up, noon’t we?"He winked, pulling a bottle of Galliano froers"

"Now isn’t that interesting I was thinking the sa an identical bottle froetas we headed to the door

"Please, you would htie just to have ing him with my shoulder

He stopped midway up the walk and looked at me fiercely "Is that an invitation? Cuz I’ in the darkness

"I’ve no doubt," I breathed, the space between us now crackling with tension that was beconore I took a deep breath, and noticed he did as well

"Coet sauced and start this weekend" He chuckled, nudgingthe spell

"Sauce away," Ithe front door open, Sih the house to the back deck There the lake spread out before us, just barely lit by the tiki torches dotting the dock and pathways that led to the shore The entire back of the house was flanked with brick patios and decks, and that’s where we found our friends