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His hands gripped rin--I quickly coether
"Truth? I’ve been thinking about you since the night you banged ondown to kiss the hollow ofprecision His hair tickled ht to keep my hands to myself He pusheds automatically opened to allow hi any actual thought I had in hs knehat to do
One of his hands snuck around to the sripped the back ofe of the counter, which forced s once more went on auto-pilot and wrapped themselves around his waist "I want you in Spain," he breathed, then brought his an to call…and an O finally began her journey home
"More wine, Mr Parker?"
"No more for me Caroline?"
"I’m fine, thank you" I stretched out luxuriously in my seat First class to LaGuardia, then first class all the way to Malaga, Spain We’d be taking a car from there to Nerja, the s, spelunking, hiking, beautiful beaches, and e
Siry look over his shoulder
"What? What’s the proble out of the ordinary
"That kid keeps banging hed for a solid twenty minutes
Chapter Sixteen
"WE DID IT TOO SOON We should have waited"
"We waited long enough--are you kidding? You knoas right It was time to do it"
"Time to do it, what a crock! We could have waited just a little longer, and then ouldn’t be in theat the time You seemed pretty pleased, as I recall"
"I couldn’t co I just knew this rong, ere doing was inherently wrong"
"Okay, I give up You tellit upside down," I shot back, grabbing thethe side of the road for five et to Nerja
After landing in Malaga, navigating custo our way successfully away from the city center, ere now lost Sie of the map And by that I mean he took it away from me every ten minutes or so, looked it over, hmm-ed and hawed, and then thrust it backI had to say, instead relying on his innate man-map He also refused to turn on the GPS that had been provided for us, deteret us there the old-fashioned way
Which is ere now lost Taking a train would have been too easy Siet around for his photos, which was ultiht, ere both exhausted, but the best way to fight jet lag, allegedly, was to get on local tireed not to nap until we could go to sleep that night
Noe argued about where we took the wrong turn I’d been devouring so turn supposedly took place, and so we played "Place the Bla her face and atching for the turn, ouldn’t be--"
"Stuffinget your oe stopped!"
"Well, I wasn’t hungry at first, but then you were sot distracted" He looked up frorinned, breaking the tension
"Distracted?" I grinned back, leaning a little closer As he looked at the map, I looked at him How could someone who’d been on a plane for the last hundred years look as good as he did? But there he was, faded jeans, black T-shirt, dark blue North Face jacket Twenty-four hours of stubble begging to be licked Who licked stubble? Me, that’s who He braced hi silently as he tried to figure it out I snuck underneath his ar irl in a garage calendar
"Can I ly no Can we please turn on the GPS? I’d like to make it there before I have to leave in a few days," I , I had to fly back a day before Si
"Caroline, only pussies use GPS," he scoffed, turning to thefor soet rid of this jet lag So unless you want to see ht, Spanish version, turn on the GPS, Sirabbed him by the North Face and pulled hi him the tiniest of kisses on the chin
"Yes, I’m terrified of you now"
"Does thisback and pulling ave a little cheer and started for the door
"No, no, no, you were harsh, Nightie Girl I’
"You need so me back to him "Yes, I require it"
"You’re twisted, Si my arms around his neck
"You have no idea" He licked his lips and waggled his eyebrows like an old-tiht his lips toSiht he "truthed" ht up on tothis new side of our relationship Underneath all the snark and spark, there’d been so theseit all out--albeit slowly Sure, we could’ve raced right back to the bedroo out across the city for days, but Sie for once, and were content to let this unfold
He ooinghim woo I wanted the woo I deserved the woo I needed thethat would surely follow the woo, but for now, the woo? It hoa
And speaking of woo…
My hands slipped into his hair, tugging and twisting and trying to pull his entire body inside ue touch hed, the tiniest whiiant grin overtaking hed "You sure look happy"
"Keep kissinghis face back toa jack ’o’ lantern What’s with the grin?" He srin that looked as wide as my own