“Yeah,” he said. “We did.”
He rolled her onto her back and spent the next forty-five minutes or so showing her exactly why he was the best man to have been brought on this trip.
After that, they ordered more room service, and she got out a pamphlet with all of the activities they could do.
“I think I want to zip-line,” she said, taking a sip of coffee.
“Why?”
“Because we’re here. We’re here, and we need to do something.”
He lifted a brow.
“I’m not going to be able to walk,” she said.
“Oh, don’t be dramatic.”
“Saddle sore isa thing,Justice. Some of us don’t ride like this all the time.”
“Yeah. I guess,” he said.
He didn’t look repentant or convinced. She just thought it would be a bad idea for them to sink entirely into a 100 percent sex situation. Yes, she wanted to live in the moment. She didn’t want to catastrophize. But she had only been sort of kidding when this morning their gazes had collided and the only thing they could think to do was come together again. They had too many years of friendship behind them to let it turn into that.
“What else is there to do?” he asked, so skeptical that it flattered her, even if it shouldn’t.
But what woman wouldn’t want to be the sole focus of the desire of a man that hot? She paled in comparison to zip lining. Perhaps that was a strange thing to be complimented by but after her most recent experience with a man—she was.
“Oh, there’s all kinds of things. You can take a dog team out. I mean, guided. You can’t just grab the dogs andmushall around the place.”
“You would be kind of a cute musher.”
She sniffed. “I have no desire to be a musher.”
“I’m shocked.”
He didn’t sound shocked. He was wearing nothing but low-slung jeans, and she couldn’t help but admire his body.
“You keep looking at me like that we are not going to make it out to zip-line.”
“It’s going to be very cold.”
“Are you having second thoughts? Because if we stay in I can keep you warm.”
“I’m not having second thoughts. I think it’s something we should do.”
“Would you have done it with Asher?”
“No. It’s pretty safe to say that 90 percent of what we’ve done so far I wouldn’t do with Asher.”
He smirked. “A man does like to hear that. If he’s going to be compared it might as well be favorably.”
“They do have an ice cave,” she said, pointing to the brochure. Then she blinked. “I’m sorry. I forgot.”
He looked tense. And a little bit angry. “It’s fine,”he said. “But yeah. I might skip the ice cave if it’s all the same to you.”
How had she not known this? She’d stepped on it twice now in the past week and it just...
She cared for Justice. She’d known him for so much of their lives. It meant they didn’t have “getting to know you” conversations, though. She’d known him since he was eight so she figured she knew it all, but she’d missed this glaring trauma that had happened to him.
