Page 22 of Holiday on the Rocks
After a few minutes of silence his deep voice whispered, “You good up there?”
“Yes.” I let out a breath.
“Things in life happen and they twist us up. But once you get some rest you’ll feel like your old self.” He let out a little gasp. “Did you hear that? I sound like I really know my shit, huh?”
I giggled. “Mr. Wisdom over there.”
I stared at the ceiling almost afraid to close my eyes. Between Levi being next to me on the floor and the car debacle, my life was flying by at 15 WTF’s a minute.
“I believe I hear your eyeballs blinking one hundred miles an hour up there. You’re not going to have that dream again.”
“How are you so sure?”
His chuckle hit my ears. “Well, with all this testosterone next to you, your subconscious knows your safe as a kitten here in this bed.”
“OMG, did you really just say that?”
He nudged my arm and when I looked down he flexed. “Big guns don’t lie.”
“Barf.” Sigh.
Heavy silence hung in the air. The past, the fact that we were sleeping in the same room, and the invisible string I wanted to deny, was still there.
Silence.
TEN
LEVI
IT SHOULD’VE BEEN
Being in the dark room with her, I knew this was how we should’ve been all along. The air was electric and all I wanted to do was fucking crawl in that bed. The place I belonged.
I wanted to kiss her and feel her soft skin against mine, but maybe a friend thing was a step closer to where I wanted to be.
“Do you think your group will be here tomorrow?” I wanted another day alone with her. One where we could be like this. Where her hate toward me was on a hiatus. One where I could give the lusty obsession I had with her a chance to grow legs. For her to realize it should be us.
“Not sure. The Midwest storm was still going a few hours ago.”
She sighed, and I wanted to feel her breath against my skin.
“Lexi and Rach still the same?”
“Still wild women with no filter or patience.” She yawned.
“We should sleep.”
“Yeah.”
I was fighting myself not to reach out and pull her down on me. “Who says friends can’t sleep together?”
A whispery giggle wrapped around me. “Good night perv.”
“Good night Langley.”
ELEVEN
ALLIE
