Page 39 of With This Kiss
We took the elevator up to the seventh floor—the top floor.
She seemed to have the entire floor to herself.
She turned to me when we reached her door.
“Aren’t you going to invite me in?” I asked.
She shot me a look that said it all. She would not be inviting me in.
“I’ll take that as a no.”
“Good night, Reign.”
“Night, sweetheart.”
She turned and unlocked the door to her apartment, heading inside and closing the door behind her without another word.
I stayed standing where I was, still reeling from the night. Jamie Caparelli was a dangerous woman.
She was just good at keeping up the façade and making me think about everything from a different perspective.
If I wasn’t careful, I would foolishly fall into her trap that I already knew existed.
I turned and was about to head into the elevator when her front door opened once more.
“Change your mind?” I asked with a smile.
She shook her head, and I felt a slight tinge of disappointment in my chest. Then she said something that took me by surprise.
“Can I… Can I stay with you tonight?”
10
JAMIE
Ihad the worst luck.
A burst pipe.
And I didn’t even know how it had happened.
Luckily, most of the damage was contained in the bathroom, but I would have to wait until tomorrow for someone to come by and fix it.
“The water is shut off, miss,” Johnny, the maintenance man I had on call for the building, said to me.
“Thank you for all your help,” I said.
“It’s no problem. I’ll drop by first thing tomorrow morning and see if we can get this resolved as quickly as possible.”
He left shortly after that, leaving Reign and me alone in the apartment building. I already had my bag packed.
I still couldn’t believe I had asked to spend the night at his place.
I could have just gotten a hotel for the night or something. But Reign was right there, and the words came out before I could stop them.
I was already regretting it now.
I leaned back against the wall, suddenly feeling so tired, all I wanted to do was crawl into bed and sleep.
