Due South (The Compass series Book 5) by Tamsen Parker

Author:Tamsen Parker [Parker, Tamsen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9781942427070
Publisher: Tamsen Parker
Published: 2016-12-12T02:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

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December 22nd

Lucy

Something is chirping.

Something is chirping, I’m weirdly comfortable, and there’s sunlight hitting my face. Which is downright bizarre, because I’m at the office. Or I should be except…

Everything that happened last night comes flooding back to me. Evans asking if I’d let him surprise me and then…then the beach. And the surfers. And the earth-shattering orgasm. That’s pretty much the last thing I remember. Which is fine. So fine. I smile thinking about it.

And then realize I don’t remember going anywhere afterward. Which means… I shift, and yes, there’s a body pressed against my back and an arm slung over my waist and the soft snuffling of someone still asleep. Evans.

That’s when it occurs to me that the chirping sounds somewhat…unnatural. Not birds exactly, but a soundtrack of birds on loop. I start pawing around the blankets, realizing we must look homeless, sleeping out here on the beach like this. It’s a good thing no cops have come by and roused us. Or is it? Because now I’m starting to panic a bit about what time it is, exactly.

Given the sun, it can’t be too late, but I don’t have any time to spare. Finally I locate my phone and click it on to see it’s almost seven. Shit. Not terrible, but not great given we have to drive back to the office from the beach.

I scooch out from under Evans’s sleep-heavy arm and roll over to look at him. If I was allowed, I’d brush the reddish-brown hair off his forehead and kiss him, because even though I’m on edge now, that was a nice thing he did and I’d like to say thank you. I will, just not in a sweet, boyfriend-girlfriend way, because we’re not. Can’t be.

Which is too bad because aside from all the stress and worry and insanity, this might be the happiest I’ve been…ever. And yes, the sex has had some—okay, a lot—to do with that. Who would’ve thought Evans of all people would turn out to be a master of sex? But it’s been more than that. I like how he looks at me. Also the way he doesn’t talk down to me and instead talks to me because he has no doubt I can do my job. Because I do it.

That’s the stab of guilt that gets me moving because I shouldn’t be lying here, mooning over my… Evans would never say fuck buddy, would probably turn bright red at even the suggestion. But lover has always sounded faintly ridiculous to me, like something someone in a soap opera should say, not actual real live people. I don’t know. Whatever he is to me, he’s a good one. My Evans. For a couple more days, at any rate.

I reach out, intending to shake him awake, but I can’t bring myself to be even that rough with him when I know he would wake me in the gentlest way he could. He may be bossy when we’re fooling around but not otherwise.

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