Page 42 of In Your Dreams, Holden Rhodes

“No, I’ll get them. You should take progress photos.” I strode out of the bathroom and downstairs.

At the front door, I searched for the box with the spacers. Plastic sheeting protected the floor, and construction materials sat in neat stacks and piles. No box.

I opened the door to a box sitting on the porch, addressed to Sadie.

“We should clear the entryway out for when we knock the wall down,” I called up the stairs, using my keys to slice the box open.

Sadie appeared at the top of the stairs. “I can figure it out on my own.”

“I’ll help.” Demo was the fun part. I flipped the box open.

A choked noise scraped out of my throat.

“What?” Sadie asked off my expression.

I reached into the box and pulled out a giant green dildo the size of my forearm. A weird pressure built in my chest and the corner of my mouth twitched.

Sadie’s eyes were wide with shock.

The laugh burst out of my chest. “Is this yours?”

“No!” she shrieked, running down the stairs.

“This thing is huge.” I held it up to her. “We can use it to knock walls down.”

A red flush grew over her face. “Oh my god.” She pulled the box from me and snatched the invoice out, scanning it. “Ugh. They sent the wrong thing.”

I nudged her side with the dildo and she swatted me away. “The wrong color?”

“Very, very funny.” She leveled me with a look and I held back a grin.

“You’re blushing.”

“I am not.”

“So you didn’t order this?”

“No, Holden.” She was definitely blushing. “I didn’t order a dildo that would split me in half.”

I choked. Wow.

“I ordered—” She cut herself off. “Something else.”

My eyebrow arched. “What did you order?”

She wouldn’t meet my eye but straightened up with indignance. “A vibrator.”

It wasn’t just the prissy way she said it that made my cock twitch. It was the image of her using it. Eyes closed, pretty lips parted, gasping as she worked the toy between her legs.

Fuck. That was hot. I tried to wipe it from my mind but there she was again, lying in her bed and moaning my name.

Myname? No. I studied her bright red face.

Nice to think about, though.

“I’m not embarrassed I ordered a vibrator,” she told me, gaze snapping to mine before she looked away.

I put the king-sized dildo back in the box without a word.

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