“What if it’s my brother?” I try to look at my screen to make sure it’s actually not my brother calling me. What if he realized I’m not in the house so he called me and then Gilly when I didn’t answer?

“Don’t care,” he says again. “Why’d you get dressed?” A laugh bubbles out of me at his grumpy tone. It’s almost a pout.

“I care.” I push at his chest again. “I got myself into a mess,” I remind him.

“We’re not a mess.” He stares down at me.

“I don’t mean us.” I run my fingers through his short hair. “I mean the whole Falco thing.” Gilly’s face hardens at the mention of his name.

“Don’t say his name when we’re in bed together.”

I roll my eyes because he’s being ridiculous. “I never really wanted him.”

“Don’t care.”

“Those are your two favorite words now.”

“I care about you.” He drops his forehead to mine. I wasn’t expecting him to say that. I know it’s not an I love you, but my heart still flutters as if it is. Gilly hasn’t said those words to me, but him picking me over my brother says it all.

“Then maybe I should come clean to Antonio about Falco and then later we can tell him about this,” I suggest. I’m not sure how Antonio is going to handle the news of Gilly and me being a thing. What I do know is that the Falco situation is going to get me into a crap ton of trouble. In my defense, I had no clue when I’d blown up that warehouse that he was connected to it.

“I’m not lying about us.”

“Isn’t that what you’ve been doing? Or did you think you might actually let me go at some point?” I push.

“Fuck,” he grits, rolling off me to sit up on the side of the bed. I fight a smirk. Yeah, Gilly was never going to let another man have me. I crawl over and kiss his shoulder. He grabs me, pulling me around to straddle him.

“Please?” I say before he can try and push. His phone goes off again.

“You win.” He presses a hard kiss to my mouth. “For now.” He stands, putting me onto my feet before he walks over and grabs his phone. I check mine and let out a breath when I see it’s not my brother.

“I’ll be up in a minute,” I hear Gilly say. “Yeah.” I give him a wave as he glares at me, the phone still pressed to his ear. I know this is my chance to escape, so I do. I sneak back up toward the house.