Page 47 of Forever After All

No fucking way. What did I expect from this tiny town?

Me: Hopefully they let you know soon.

I feel a little guilty that Alice is stuck without lights and hotwater.

Ring, ring, ring.

Alice calls and my phone dances to life in my hand, the screen lighting up the still dark room. I practically shit myself, slam my hand down over the speaker and muffle the noise coming from this fucking digital snitch in my palm. My heart threatens to jump out of my mouth, because what the fuck do I do? I move as far to the other side of the room as I can, and answer in a low voice.

"Hey." I try to sound nonchalant, but it doesn't work as well as I'd hoped. "Any update yet?"

"No, nothing yet. I hope it's okay I've called. I'm sorry if you're busy," she says, sounding fed up.

Well, that's just great. Not only can I hear her voice on the phone, but I hear it through the wall too. Not only is she in the same hotel as me, but she's in the room next door. I'm separated from the woman of my dreams by a wall. What are the odds?

"It’s okay, I don't mind." Lowering my voice a little more, sounding more like everyone's favorite superhero with every passing second.

"I miss you—" Alice says, sounding a little breathless, and before she can add more, I interrupt.

"I miss you too," I reply.

"Oh yeah? How much do you miss me?" she asks, sounding soseductive that I want to rip this wall down with my bare hands to get to her.

Now I know why men are lured to their death from listening to a siren's song. I can't help drawing my fist to my mouth and biting on my knuckle, trying to dampen any noise that threatens to escape me.

"Alice, what are you trying to do to me?" I groan out.

"I'm trying to get you hard." She giggles through the phone at me and moans a little. The noise travelling straight to my shaft.

"Alice, now that isn't fair. You need to stop." Every part of me struggling when I know she’s right next door.

"Why would I do that when it's so much fun? Did it work?" Her saccharine voice comes out of the speaker.

"You've got a big day tomorrow, you need to rest…and yes…it worked." I reach down to palm my rock-hard cock.

"Hmm, I like that," she says, ignoring my first statement.

"What, Alice?" I ask in return.

"That I'm so wet for you, and you're so hard for me," she chirps, breathing a little heavier. Her voice is so quiet I can no longer hear her through the wall.

She is absolutely right—I'msofucking hard for her.

"What are you doing, Alice?" I try to sound stern, but my insides have turned to mush.

"Touching myself and thinking about you." She sighs, and Isnap.

I hang up and swing open the door. Stepping out into the hallway, as naked as the day I was born with a raging boner, I hammer on the door next to mine so fucking hard it hurts the heel of my fist.

"Open the door right now, Alice."

Chapter 23

Alice

What. The. Hell?

Throwing my phone up in the air in a panic, I sit up on the bed in my underwear, shaking from the loud banging on the door. It was an automatic reaction to grab the heaviest, closest thing to me I could find. Which is the plugged-in phone that doesn't work. I pull my knees to my chest and clutch the phone to my body, squeezing my eyes shut, waiting for someone to hammer the door down.

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