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After a while, he caressedtired?”

I looked up at him and nodded, but then I said, “I don’t want you to stop what you’re doing, though”

There was so uidedthe way We stripped down to our briefs, then took turns in the bathroohts were low, the cat was curled up on the duvet, and Lorenzo was tucked under the covers He held up a corner of the blanket, and I slid in beside him

The feeling of his skin againstwithdownstairs, and I closed my eyes and murmured, “Just to clarify, when I asked you to stay a while, I actually meant the entire time I’m here in Mendocino”

He kissed my forehead and whispered, “Good, because that’s exactly what I’ to do”

Chapter 10

The next reeted us with freshly brewed coffee, banana nut muffins, and my phone, which he’d found in the trailer’s sofa “The news of Trent Chae and the accident finally broke,” he said “It’s all over the internet” He put his laptop in front of us when Lorenzo and I sat down at the kitchen island, so we could read the story on the screen

I ”

“Me too” Phoenix took a sip of coffee, then said, “I reached out to one ofto release a state Trent on this picture so to be all over the news, and we should be ready to start fielding requests for interviews”

“Do you really think anyone will be interested in what I have to say?”

Phoenix said, “Absolutely The first things they’ll probably ask is when you found out you’d gotten the part and what you knew about Trent’s accident You should reach out to Sylvia so you can discuss possible answers”