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"You should try to go to sleep" I wrappedshadows across the roo"

Shortcake let out a little sigh as she snuggled against ?"

"Nope"

"At all?"

Loweringanywhere I’ll be right here when you wake up, sweetheart I pro the same way I had fallen asleep Avery was still curled up inaround I groaned, tightening ainstand you’re sitting onany man down"

I opened my eyes in time to see a flush sweep over Shortcake’s cheeks I h heavily hooded eyes

"Do you want et off you?" she asked

"Hell no" I slid h her soft hair "Absolutely fucking not"

She grinned "Okay"

"Finally, I think we’re actually agreeing on so her head to the side, she studied ht really happen?"

I grinned "Depends on what you think happened"

"I took my shirt off for you?"

At the aze dipped The hardened tips of her breasts were nicely visible "Yes Lovely moment"

"And you turned h "Only because our first ti to be when you’re drunk"

"Our first tirinned lazily "Uh-huh"

She turned a pretty shade of pink "You’re really confident about there being a first tiainst the cushion, watching her as I sh

"We talked, right?" She glanced at her bare wrist "I told you when I did this?"

"Yes"

Her lashes lifted "And you don’t think I’ bitch?"

"Well"

She pinned rinned as I moved my other hand up to the nape of her neck "You want to knohat I think?"

"Depends"

I led her head down so that our lips almost touched "I think we need to talk"

"We do," she whispered

But the longer she sat in ripped her hips and lifted her up, dropping her on the cushion beside ht we needed to talk," she asked as I stood

"We do I’ll be right back"

Confusion poured into her expression

"Just stay there, okay?" I started for the door "Don’tJust sit there and I’ll be right back"

She rested her chin on the back of the couch "Okay"

"I " I opened the door "Not the last couple ofnext Just sit there"

"All right," she whispered "I proaze for ato lock herself in her bedroom, I hurried to my apartment It was quiet inside, but there was a pair of heels next to the couch Srabbed the required items from the kitchen Took me all of five minutes and when I returned to her apartaze dropped to what I held in s"

"And ed the door closed "And I brushed my teeth"

"You didn’t put a shirt on"

I cast her a long look "I knoould break your heart not to be able to see s on the counter, I heard a muffled squeak and turned toward the door "Avery, what in the hell are you doing?"

"Nothing," was the response

I set your ass in here" When I heard her feet hit the floor, I frowned "And don’t you dare change" I paused "Because I really like seeing you in my clothes"

"Well, when you put it like that" She appeared in the doorway

"What?" I looked over s that badly?"