The Last Plus One by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B01D0CYYV0
Published: 2016-06-12T23:00:00+00:00

Hawk was not asleep.

For a while, he stared up at the ceiling, not seeing anything, but needing to focus on something besides Ashton lying beside him.

He probably shouldn’t have said that, how he knew her so well. Definitely shouldn’t have touched her like that. But he couldn’t help himself. Because what Phillip had said made him stop and think. No one who really knew Ashton would ever dream she should do anything with her life other than the field she loved.

Every time she talked about it, she lit up.

It was also true, and hard to admit, that really being with her might be detrimental to his career at Preston-Ivy. They’d only playacted being engaged. It wasn’t real.

She moved. He held his breath. She sighed. His heart pounded inside his ears. He wanted to say something. But what? That she smelled nice…like blueberry pie? And that she probably tasted like it, too? Right. How insane would that sound? And how fast would she order him to sleep in the tub?

He threw an arm over his eyes. Next, he rolled to his side away from her, facing the wall.

Hawk did manage to sleep some, but not restfully. At least he’d stirred before his bedmate was awake. Knowing that the sun rose ridiculously early in Maine, it had to have been around six a.m., because the sunlight filtering through the drapes was yellow and bright. The same sky as when he went running in the morning in Detroit.

Man, it would be nice right about now to burn off as much energy as possible before he was forced to be with her again.

Forced.

The absurdity of the word made him smile.

When she stirred, very carefully and quietly, Hawk got out of bed, took the three steps to the bathroom, then took a shower an Eskimo would be proud of.

Luckily, his white shirt and pants were barely wrinkled. Last thing he needed was to show up at Virtue Cove in the rumpled clothes from yesterday, with equally rumpled Ashton in tow. The wedding crowd would have a field day, not to mention the photographers surrounding the compound. Though he and Ashton were no one the press should care about, what if they did catch a good shot? Anything that even smelled like a public walk of shame wouldn’t endear him to Preston-Ivy’s board.

Not to mention, one appraising look from Tyler, and he’d punch Hawk in the head. Or he’d try. Hell, he’d have every right. Even if nothing had happened, his buddy would be way pissed. Hawk couldn’t risk that. Ty was more like a brother to him than his own siblings.

By the time he finished in the bathroom and opened the door, Ashton stood facing the open window, fully clothed.

Damn. The gorilla side of him wished she was still in nothing but that skimpy blue underwear from last night. That had certainly gotten his heart pounding like a jungle drum.

“You finally done in there?” she asked, holding her dark hair back with one hand in a high ponytail.

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