Wood Worked: A Single Dad Standalone Reverse Harem Romance (Roommates Book 5) by Stephanie Brother

Author:Stephanie Brother [Brother, Stephanie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-07-11T16:00:00+00:00

14

Spencer

I only had a few minutes to talk to Alyssa before it was time for dinner. Raphael was cooking, and the kids were doing the worksheets the third-grade teachers mistakenly thought were educational. I knocked on the door frame, giving Lyss the chance to turn me away if she was too tired, but she told me to come on in.

“Can we talk?” I asked.

Alyssa looked like a puppy who’d dug up the geraniums. “I feel like I’ve been called into the principal’s office.”

I bit back a smile. “Well, you’re still recovering, so the principal had to come to you.” I sat in my usual spot at the end of the bed. She had on a scoop-neck t-shirt and one of the pairs of sweatpants we’d cut up to accommodate her cast. Her straight hair grazed the tops of her shoulders and shone in the fading light from the window. She looked fresh-faced and pretty—but not as pretty as she’d looked in my button-down shirt the other day. That was a sight I wouldn’t soon forget.

But that wasn’t why I was here. “Charlotte told me that you got a grown-up nightgown.”

Her cheeks, her throat, and even the skin of her chest flushed. “I’m so sorry,” she said immediately. “I had no idea Sierra was going to send me lingerie, or I never would’ve opened it in front of Charlotte.”

“Sierra. Is she your girlfriend?” I said that in a casual tone—or at least I hoped I did.

“No, just a friend.”

That struck me as odd. “Do your friends usually send you lingerie?”

“No, but Sierra is kind of a girlie girl. She likes pretty things. I think she thought it would cheer me up.”

“And did it?” My eyebrows raised, and I saw her legs move under the blanket.

“I don’t know. Once I saw what it was, I shoved it back in the box. I’m sorry I wasn’t faster.”

That part made me grin, and I patted her foot. “No one here expects you to be speedy in your condition. May I see it?”

Her jaw dropped, and I realized how my words had sounded. “I mean, I’d like to know what Charlotte saw. ‘Grown-up nightgown’ can mean so many things.” This time, I was pretty sure my face was the red one.

Alyssa didn’t meet my eyes as she lifted up the covers and pulled out some wadded-up material. The first item was clearly a teddy, a short, flirty, slip-like garment held up by spaghetti straps. She held it up in front of her. The color was a satiny peach, with lace lining the bra cups and the lower hem. It wasn’t very long to begin with, but there was a slit up the front over her left thigh.

I couldn’t stop staring. She was holding it up in the air, but it was right in front of her torso. It didn’t take much imagination to visualize what it would look like on her. The color would suit her pale skin, and though she was slender, I had no doubt her curves would fill the teddy quite nicely.

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