“You should get that.”
He groans with a playful frustration. “It can’t be as important as this.”
I thread my hands through his tousled hair and reluctantly pull his head away from me. “We’ve been in your bedroom since we got home. Besides, I’m getting hungry.” River lets out a resigned groan. “Fine. I can’t have you starving.”
“We could have dinner together,” I suggest.
“I wasn’t planning it any other way. But after, we come right back in here.”
“You got it.” I pull the blanket up over his head, then I swing my legs off the bed and onto the floor, skipping over to the intercom, and pressing the talk button. “Hi,” I greet whoever’s on the other line.
“Ms. Lux.” Ben’s voice sounds surprised. “I was just calling to ask if you had any dinner plans.”
“River and I will be having dinner in the dining room this evening.”
“Of course, I’ll prepare the table for four.”
River props himself up on one arm. “Four?”
Sharing the same thought, I ask, “Who else will be joining us?”
“Ms. Lux’s sister is here with Sebastian.”
“Stevie is here,” I say under my breath, then grab my phone on the nightstand to find missed text messages from Stevie.
Stevie: I’m back. Do they know I’m staying here?
Another text came through ten minutes after.
Stevie: No worries. Security called River’s cousin. I told him to let me in.
River lifts off the bed and heads to the closet naked. My eyes follow his tight glutes as they shift when he walks, giving me a fully delicious view. “I’m glad she decided to stay. It’s safer.”
“Me too.” I swiftly grab my joggers and sports bra from the floor. “I was getting a little worried she’d change her mind. My sister is hardheaded.”
“I know. Like I said before, it runs in your family.”
I slide on my pants and chuckle at his comment.
River’s head pops out from behind the wall. “I love strong women.”
“I’m glad.”
River emerges a few moments later wearing a tight black T-shirt and gray sweatpants. “I guess we’re all having dinner together then.”
It’s a shame we don’t have time for round three.
“I guess so.”
He grabs a hat from one of the many hooks on the wall.
“Ready?”
“Let’s go.” He gives the wound on my hand a soft kiss, then reaches around to clutch my other hand. I fall in step behind him as we leave his bedroom, and walk to the large dining room where Sebastian’s already seated.
“Are you two done fucking yet?” Sebastian quips, grabbing a roll from the bowl in the middle of the table. “I had to let your sister in since neither of you were answering your phones.”
“Yeah, sorry about that,” I apologize as River pulls out the chair for me. I smile at him, a light flush on my face. But then I scan the room and don’t see my sister. “Where’s Stevie?”
