He sits up and turns, narrowing his hooded, hazel eyes on the emptysheet.
I’d like to say that my jaw isn’t hanging open, but it is. And rightfully so. That man is the stuff wet dreams are made of. A stubble-covered jawbone. Dark hair tousled in that messy, zero-fucks-given way. Lips Theo James would cut throats for. Muscles. Tattoos… This guy makes Tom Hardy’s looksunfortunate.
His gaze drifts from the mattress to me, trailing over my body and stopping on my tube-sock tits.I hold up my sarong, covering myself, because unlike last night, I’m painfullysober.
He smirks, and a dimple pops.I bite my lip, thanking God it’s not two. Two dimples would be akin to kryptonite.Please, don’t let him speak English. That would make this much easier. All I’d have to say is “No habla Español,señor…”
“The polite thing to do”—he says. In English. Fuck my life. — “would be to leave a thank-you note.” Then he shoots me another, deeper grin. And, of course, two dimples dot his cheeks this time, because this is my punishment for being a slut.Asshole-bastard.
“Well, I, uh…” My face stings with heat as I slowly begin my retreat across hisroom.
“Come on, don’t leave yet.” He pushes up. And he’s very,verynaked. Penises are like a magnet, and my gaze drops right to his. I fight a little whimper. That thing must have some serious weight to it. No wonder I’msore.
“I have to…” I say, still using my sarong like a protective shield as I back toward the door. “I don’t usually do things like this, and Ijust—”
“Iknow.”
He can’t possibly know.“Youdo?”
One of his impeccably shaped eyebrows arch. He must have money because I would guarantee, brows that perfect only come from being threaded. “How much of last night doyouremember?”
“Well, you know. Enough,” I lie, tripping over one of hisshoes.
“Demi…”
Oh, I must have been wasted. Demi was the fake identity I used in college, one I thought fit my personality better than Charlie. I mean, I’m named after my dad. Mydad, who is an asshole. No guy wants to groan, “Charlie, you’re so wet for me.” Unless it’s guys like Spreadsheet Harold, certainly not El Chapo here. I haven’t used that alias in fifteen years, but what’s the point in correcting a man whose name I can’t even begin toguess.
He’s smiling, watching me back across theroom.
My heel hits the wall, and I exhale. “I just…” I feel around for the handle behind me, find it, and turn it. The door creaks, causing me to jump as though I’m afraid of my own shadow. “I have a flight to catch,” Iblurt.
“You do realize you’re naked?” He fights alaugh.
My cheeks heat, and my mind scrambles to save myself from further embarrassment. “Of course Ido.”
The stranger beams with amusement as I wrap the sarong under myarms.
“Thanks for, um…” I shrug before pointing at his dick. “That.” I slip out and hightail it through the hotel corridor toward theelevator.
I left my shoes, my shirt…everythingin that man’s hotel room. Thank the one-night-stand gods that I remembered my cell phone and grabbed my roomkey.
The elevator dings and I step on with a shake of my head. Cheesy jazz music pipes through the speakers. I close my eyes, massaging my temples as I fight to recall anything that took place last night. Flashes of the Latino god at the limbo party come to mind. Us on the beach. He smiles and grabs my hand, and then…I draw a big, fatblank.
The elevator opens and, as luck would have it, just when I step off, a group of college-aged guys move into the narrow hallway.Great!I tighten my hold on the see-through fabric. Oh, they stare when I do the freshly fucked shuffle right past them. But as tempted as I am to flip them the bird, Irefrain.
I huff a relieved sigh when I shove my plastic key into the card reader and burst into the room. Steph’s on the bed with the TV blaring and a breakfast tray on her lap. Dani’s voice carries in from the balcony where she’s shouting atBill.
The door bangs closed, forcing Steph to direct her attention to me. “Oh. My. God!” Scrambled egg fall from her mouth to the bedsheet, and she doesn’t even attempt to catch them. “You look likeshit!”
“Thanks.” I shuffle past the bathroom. “I’m just glad I’m notdead.”
“Dead?”
“Yeah. You heard me.Dead!”
One of these days her eyes are going to permanently lodge in her head if she doesn’t stop rolling them. “Why would you be dead? I mean, aside from the bottle of tequila youdrank?”
Still clutching the sheer coverup to my chest like a rosary, I glare at her. “Oh, I don’t know. Maybe because I could have been murdered by the cartel boss I evidently fucked two ways fromTuesday!”
