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Like nothing could stop...Ray laughed. “Sorry if we kept you up.”
Dom was more than red-cheeked now. “Anyway, I’m gonna read.”
Mish’s turn to roll her eyes. “What I really want to do is lounge by the pool, but I guess here is still the safest place to be.”
After reading and talking and getting annoyed with each other, they eventually ended up playinggin rummy on the bed until Ray’s phone buzzed. This time it was a text from Zavier:I’m 30 minutes out.
Ray read the text out loud for Dom and Mish, and Mish tapped Dom’s arm. “Come on. That’s our cue to get out before we get run over by Zavier’s libido.”
“Jesus,” Dom muttered, and his blush sprang back, but his smile was warm. “Enjoy.”
Oh, in the end, Ray would. He was sure of that.But right now? He was nervous as hell, which didn’t make sense. Except it was Zavier, so that tingle in his blood and quickness in his pulse did make sense in a way. A good kind of nervous? Maybe.
He headed back into the adjoining room. Another shower would help. As he peeled off his clothes and glanced around the room, a plan formed in his head. Something Zavier would understand, an actionthat had meaning. A way for Ray to show Zavier that he understood.
