Page 28 of The Getaway

“Very easy,” she breathes in response. I think about how close my room is, how easy it would be to get her there and naked beneath me once more in only a matter of minutes.

Instead, I step back and clear my throat.

“Shall we?” I wave a hand toward the door and let her lead the way. Between our activities last night, and the hike and swimming today, there’s no doubt that we both need food. Plus, eating a meal will give me the time to figure out how to ask her if she wants to have a repeat of last night.

We head to the restaurant, making small talk about things that happened throughout the day, and how we both need to remember sunscreen tomorrow.

By the time we’re seated, and entrees are ordered, I’ve already decided I want to spend every possible second of this vacation with Bri around, not just one more night. Now I just need to figure out how to ask her.

“Okay, I have a question.” Bri asks, picking up her glass and bringing it to her lips.

“And I have an answer,” I retort. Bri giggles, shaking her head and smiling at me over the rim of her wine glass. When she doesn’t continue right away, I raise a brow in question.

She murmurs something to herself along the lines of “just ask” before sucking in a deep breath and staring right at me.

“Do you want to have sex again?”

I blink at her question, glancing around as if someone is about to pop out and tell me this is all a joke. But when no one does after a couple of seconds, and Bri remains seated across from me chewing her bottom lip, I answer.

“Yes…” I say hesitantly.

“Not just tonight, but like… for the rest of our vacation.” She clarifies.

Unable to help it, I huff out a laugh. Her brows furrow, and I lift my own glass to my mouth, shaking my head as I hold her gaze.

“I’ve been trying to figure out how to ask you the same thing.”

She laughs then too, the sound piercing through me and making my chest feel lighter.

“You were gonna ask me to turn our vacations into a sex-cation too?” She asks and I choke on the wine I had just sipped. Coughing, my eyes shoot back to her.

“A…” I clear my throat. “I’m sorry, a what?”

Bri covers her mouth, trying to hold her laughter in, but failing.

While I attempt to get my breathing and heart rate back to normal, I watch her as she tries to calm her own giggles. When her laughter dies off, her shining eyes find mine as she smiles at me and the tension between us builds.

All I can think about is how she felt against me as I pinned her to the cave wall. How she tasted as she came so beautifully this morning on the net bed. Thoughts of how perfectly we fit together dominate my mind, making everything else fade away.

It isn’t until the server appears to deliver our meals that our stare-off breaks.

“Can I get you two anything else?” the server asks in a chipper voice, but I don’t look away from Bri.

“I have everything I need.”

Bri’s cheeks redden as she offers a smile to the server. I wait until we are alone again before speaking up.

“So, just to be clear, what are you suggesting?”

Bri picks up her fork, loading it up with bits of her meal before glancing back at me.

“I was going to suggest that, since we’re both here for three and a half more days, and we’re both alone, what if we just… hung out together.”

She has to be some sort of mind reader. Or maybe a perfect delusion from my own mind.

For the past twenty-four hours, this woman, this stranger, has said and done all the right things. Keeping me on my toes, making me laugh and feel more than I ever have before.

“This could be a vacation with benefits,” she continues, oblivious to my admiration of her, but her words snap me back.

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