Inhibitions by Mattie Bowman

Author:Mattie Bowman [Bowman, Mattie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-11-13T22:00:00+00:00

9 Presley

I brushed my teeth for the tenth time in the last hour before stepping out of the bathroom in our suite. Owen was right outside the door, concern coloring his eyes.

“Better?” He asked, hopeful.

I groaned and walked past him, my stomach twisting from both sickness and embarrassment. I mean, seriously, how could this happen? Did I have a mortification trigger somewhere that only got squeezed when I was about to have sex with Owen?

Hugging the robe around me, I curled up on the bed and shut my eyes. The only problem with that was the replay of the scene, over and over again in my head. One second I’d been on cloud nine—and almost close enough to touch it—with Owen, and the next a wave of nausea had hit me like I was stranded in the middle of a turbulent ocean in nothing but a row boat.

The thought made acid bubble in my throat, and I groaned again. Owen jumped up from where he’d sat next to me and disappeared.

I wished he would, just for enough time to pass where we could forget the entire thing…so like ten years? Twenty? Not only him, but Anderson and Jessica had been waiting for us when the Gondola descended—one with bags and nausea meds and the other with cleaning supplies. I owed Anderson so much.

“Here,” Owen said, and I opened my eyes. He lifted my hair and placed an icy-cold washcloth on the back of my neck. The rolling acid in my throat calmed until I couldn’t feel it and I relaxed under his touch.

“Thank you,” I said, sighing. “I’m so sorry.”

“Please stop saying that. It’s getting on my nerves.” He chuckled and moved the cloth to the front of my throat. I closed my eyes, the sensation soothing my wobbly stomach.

“Yeah, you look utterly annoyed.” I squeezed his hand, attempting to take the cloth from him but he refused. “You don’t have to take care of me.”

“It’s not the first time.”

“Don’t remind me.”

“I won’t. Not now,” he said. “Later. I will remind you many times.”

“You’ll never let me live any of this down will you?”

He sighed and pushed some hair off my face. “You’re beautiful, you know.”

“What?” Whiplash much? “I am so far from that right now.” There could’ve been vomit in my hair, and I wouldn’t know.

“You are. Even like this…” A smile played on his lips. “Beautiful.”

I scrunched my eyebrows at him, wishing I could concentrate on what he was saying instead of the rolling pain in my stomach. “I wish these meds would kick in already.”

“Should any minute now.” He glanced at his phone.

“I hope this doesn’t last the whole trip.” I shuddered at the thought.

“It won’t.” He stroked my back up and down in soothing circles. “As long as we aren’t dumb enough to go up ten-thousand feet again.”

I pressed my palms into my eyes. I couldn’t believe I’d ruined his fantasy when all I’d wanted was to fulfill it. Knowing that—our compatibility, and that I wanted

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