Page 11 of Rookie Season
Then he kisses me, and every thought goes out the window.
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SIERRA
“How many bedrooms does this cabin have?” Chloe asks.
“Five,” Jay calls.
“How many stairs?” Brooke gripes as she drags her suitcase up the stairs.
Miles swipes for her case even though he has one in his other hand. “Remind me why you need all these clothes, Princess. You know I like you better without ‘em.”
I’m still thinking about Ryan in the kitchen. When I thought about coming up with the team this weekend, I figured I could forget what happened between us last year.
I’ve done a good job of it the past twelve months despite seeing him twice a week. Why should that change now?
Turns out seeing him up close in a cozy cabin is a whole different vibe.
Especially when I feel him at my back heading up the stairs.
“I missed your tongue, Sierra.”
The words echo in my head.
“So, wait…” I’m trying to catch up, trailing the line of bodies up the creaking plank stairs. “Tell me how these sleeping arrangements are supposed to work.”
We make it to the top, my heart thudding a little despite that I spend my days on my feet.
Up here, there’s a long hall with doors leading off it on either side.
“I see four bedrooms. Where’s the fifth?” I ask.
“Uhhh…”
We go hunting for it but can’t find a door to a fifth bedroom.
“You could call Trista,” Miles suggests.
“No!” the other girls chorus.
“We’d never get Ryan back,” Brooke adds. “If she got her tentacles around him, she’d drag him back to her cabin and smother him.”
“Then I guess there’re four,” Ryan says, shrugging. “Two for the guys and two for the girls.”
The hallway erupts.
The loudest protestors are Miles and Brooke, but it’s Clay who cuts through it all with a look.
“This is Nova’s and my room. Anyone got a problem, don’t bring it to me.” He shuts the door after them.
“My dude is onto something,” Miles says, looping an arm around Brooke’s shoulders.
Brooke ducks out to peer in a couple of doorways. “This one has a king bed.”
“It’s ours,” Miles decides.
Ryan’s frowning. “It’s cool. We’ll do a little rebalancing…”
