I dragged her hand over to where I was already semi-hard and growing harder from her threat. “I think you like it too much to do that.”

“Maybe,” she muttered, gripping it tighter. “Are all your lights voice activated?”

“Glitch’s handiwork.”

“Your house is cool.”

“Yeah.”

“But it doesn’t have creepy teddy bears.”

“And thank fuck for that.” It killed me to do it, but I shifted her hand off me before neither of us was sleeping anytime soon. I rolled her so she faced away from me and curved my front to her back. Pulling the blanket over us, I rested my hand on her bare stomach.

“I should head home,” Mac said, though she made no move to go. She didn’t even try to pull my hand away.

“Later.”

“Now.”

“In a while.”

“In a minute,” she said firmly. “Maybe two.”

“Whatever you say, neighbor.”

It took less than a minute for her breath to even out, but I stayed awake.

’Cause under my palm, Squish rolled and kicked.

And I didn’t wanna miss any of it.

22. Best Wakeup Call

CHAPTER 22

BEST WAKEUP CALL

MAC

Beep!

Beep!

Beddeep-a-beepde-beepa!

I bolted upright in bed, my heart pounding so wildly, it felt like it was in my throat. That I was choking on it.

It took me a moment to realize that what I’d thought was a smoke alarm was actually an unbearably annoying alarm waking me at an ungodly hour.

It took me a few more moments to realize I was not in my own room.

I was naked. In bed. With Ward. In Ward’s bed. Where he was also naked.

I knew that because the blanket slipped when he leaned over, and I saw the world’s most muscular back and ass.

He picked up his phone to silence the alarm. Since running away would make the morning after even more awkward—especially with the whole naked thing—I flopped back onto the comfortable mattress. I took some deep breaths until the panic ebbed away.

“Time’s your appointment?” Ward asked in a gravelly voice, rough with sleep.

All the calm I’d summoned fled like a drain was pulled. “Ten.”

“Good. We got time.”

I sat up. “Why, what time is it?”

“Seven.” He chuckled when I flopped back again. “You fell asleep before I could ask. Set the alarm early to be safe.”

I couldn’t believe I’d slept over.

I couldn’t believe I’d slept so well.

I couldn’t believe I was about to doze off again.

“Wait. We’ve got time for what?”

I opened my eyes to see Ward set a pillow next to me. He rolled my body so I was on my side, the pillow supporting my stomach. “Bring your knees up, baby.”

But I was already doing it, my bent legs forming an L on the mattress.