Dirty Bastard by Jessica Clare

Author:Jessica Clare
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Lexi

Sometime in the early hours of the morning, I’m roused from an exhausted sleep cuddled against Knox’s chest. What woke me up? I hear something a moment later, a muffled thumping sound. I freeze in bed, my heart pounding. Is it . . . ghosts? Is there a haunting here after all?

Knox rubs my naked ass with one big hand under the blankets. “S’your phone, sweetheart. Don’t be scared.”

Oh. Jesus. I exhale slowly and sit up in bed, looking around. “I knew that.”

“Sure you did,” he says with a yawn, and tries to pull me back down against him. “Ignore it and it’ll stop.”

I lean in and tease his nipple, just to make him groan. “Be right back.” I slide out of bed, not caring that I’m naked, and start digging around in the strewn clothing and bedding to figure out where my phone is. We’ve pretty much demolished this room after another round or two (or three) of sex. I find a sock hanging off the flat-screen TV, and my phone’s in the ice bucket, under Knox’s T-shirt. I have no idea how either one got there, but that answers why there was a weird thumping. With it tucked against my chest, I crawl back into bed and let Knox pull me back against him. He tangles his legs with mine and his hand goes back to my hip, as if he just wants to touch me while he sleeps.

I tilt my phone away from his face so I don’t blind him with the screen and click on the text messages. It’s Natalie, and she’s sent me a flood of texts.

NAT: Hey! I know it’s late, but I can’t sleep and I’m peeling wallpaper at 3 in the morning.

NAT: In case you’re asking WHY I am peeling wallpaper at 3 in the morning, let me tell you. I can’t sleep. This house is such a fixer-upper that it’s keeping me up at night.

NAT: There is teal wallpaper in the bathroom and yellow countertops from the 70s. I’m going to let that sink in for a moment.

NAT: I know it might not be the brightest idea to decide to remodel when we’re just starting out. I’m realizing that . . . now. But we couldn’t find anything we liked and Clay wanted the baby to have a home (aka not his trailer) and I was all, “Hey, I can do that, no problem.”

NAT: Next time I say it’s no problem, slap me in the face. I said this would be exciting. It’s not exciting.

NAT: Well, the teal wallpaper isn’t exciting BUT the house is big and it’s fun to pick my own decor. But the bathroom wallpaper bothers me, so here I am in the middle of the night, peeling.

NAT: Well in between peeling, I’m texting you like a madwoman.

NAT: Which brings me to my question of how come you haven’t moved into my guest house yet?

NAT: It’s set up to be the perfect sort of apartment, you know.

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