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She slid under the covers quickly. No reason to find a shirt at this point. She’d be getting up in an hour but didn’t want to do it this early.

The only problem was she was wide awake and thinking about her actions from the night before.

Normally when she woke like this she thought about work for the day.

Yeah, no matter how hard she tried, that wasn’t happening.

The bed moved and a heavy warm arm came around and pulled her close so that they were spooning.

She wasn’t the spooning type!

What she noticed was that he was naked too.

Did Elias normally sleep naked? Sheneverdid.

But she had last night.

“I can hear you thinking,” he said in her ear.

“My mind can’t shut off,” she said. “Normally I wake up and think of work or do work.”

“I can take your mind off of it,” he said, his mouth moving around her neck.

She was warming up fast now too.

“Please do,” she heard herself say.

“We don’t even need to get out of bed,” he said. “I brought a condom from your bathroom back last night, but guess I wore you out.”

She smiled in the dark. “You really did. I’m awake now though.”

“Then stop talking, stop thinking, and just feel.”

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“You’ve got curly hair,” Elias said an hour later when Phoebe came out of the bathroom wrapped in a towel, her damp hair falling over her bare shoulders.

“I thought you were in the kitchen,” she said.

They’d gotten up after he had his fill of her. She jumped in the shower and he got dressed and went to make coffee.

He didn’t want to leave while she was showering for the day.

He could show up at work when he wanted, but it wasn’t even five yet. He’d drive home and shower and still get there around his normal time.

“I was,” he said. “I heard the door open and thought you were done and was going to ask if I could make you breakfast. You ran in there so quickly and turned the water on I hadn’t realized you were going to shower.”

He figured she was just going to the bathroom after he’d taken care of the condom.

Did she want him to leave so the place was empty when she came out?

Maybe he thought that right away until she said she thought he was in the kitchen.

“Sorry,” she said. “I normally have toast, but you can do what you want.”

She rushed into her room and shut the door. Probably to get dressed and then would deal with her hair.

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