How Much I Care by Marie Force

Author:Marie Force [Force, Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781952793004
Publisher: HTJB, Inc.
Published: 2020-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

I make myself watch HGTV for thirty minutes so I won’t be tempted to get to the hotel too soon. While I keep my gaze fixed on the TV, I refuse to think about anything other than paint, lighting, tile and cased doorway openings. On the way out, I grab the bag I packed at Carmen’s direction and the lunch I made earlier for tomorrow from the fridge and take it with me, hoping there’s a fridge in his suite.

There’s almost no traffic this time of night, and I get to the hotel ten minutes before my allotted hour is up. I turn over the car to the valet, give him Austin’s last name and room number and am looking for a seat in the lobby to kill a few more minutes when my phone chimes with a text.

Ev is down for the count. I’m all yours. He includes his room number.

And yes, my overly involved heart skips a beat at the idea of such an extraordinary man being all mine. I type in a reply. On the way up.

He responds with all emojis that convey his happiness.

I’m a silly fool on the road to ruin, but what a way to go. I get off the elevator on the seventh floor and follow the signs to his room. I’m about halfway down the hallway when I see Austin standing in the doorway waiting for me.

His smile lights up my world, and I run to him, not caring for a second about the many ways it could go bad, not when he’s right here with me and nothing has ever felt better than being with him.

He catches me, wrapping me up in his strong arms, and holds on tight. “There you are.”

“Here I am.”

Without letting me go, Austin walks us into the room, and the door closes with a loud clunk. He presses me against the wall and kisses me with the same desperation I feel for him. My bag drops to the floor, and my arms end up around his neck, my fingers buried in his hair as my tongue tangles with his.

I lose all sense of time and place and anything that isn’t him and me and us and this, this amazing thing between us that only seems to become more so every time we’re together. But then I remember the things I wanted to tell him. I slowly withdraw from the kiss but keep my lips close to his.

“I brought a bag with my work stuff.”

“That’s the best news I’ve had all day.”

“Better than winning your twenty-second game of the season?”

“Way better.”

“Can I put my lunch for tomorrow in your fridge?”

“My fridge is your fridge, and in case I forget to tell you, you’re super cute.”

“Because I make my lunch?”

“That and every single other thing about you.”

I’m already completely crazy about this guy, and then he has to go and be sweet, too. “I have conditions.”

He kisses my neck, and it’s all I can do not to whimper from the sensations that spiral through me like an out-of-control fever.

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