Bad Boy: A Stepbrother Romance(41)

Screw it. I wanted to spend time with her, so I damn well would. Before I could stop myself, I knocked on her door. Once, twice, three times, and then I heard noise on the inside as she approached the door. A goofy smile was already plastered on my face as she opened the door and looked out at me, a blush creeping over her face.

“Morning,” I said.

She rubbed her eyes. “Morning,” she mumbled, her words interrupted by a huge yawn. She was makeup-free and still in her pajamas, a really cute pair which were way too juvenile for her but still looked adorable with the cat print. She was also wearing bunny slippers on her feet, and her hair was in complete disarray.

She was still the cutest fucking thing I’d ever seen.

“Rough night?” I asked, barely able to stifle my laughter, and she giggled.

“Oh, yeah,” she replied with a grin. “Rode a dragon, witnessed a fight in my honor, and almost died when the masses tried to attack me.”#p#分页标题#e#

“I see,” I nodded. “So, are you busy today, Khaleesi?”

She seemed pleased that I’d gotten her Game of Thrones reference. I was a bit of a geek when it came to that TV show, plus I’d heard her binge watching the last season through the wall. I’d even repeated some of the words as I heard them through the wall, feeling like a total goofball.

“Depends,” Rory replied. “What did you have in mind?”

“I can’t be fucked working this morning, and I have a really fun idea.” I winked at her. “Promise you’ll like it. Want to join me?”

She hesitated, but it pleased me to see it was only for a short moment. She nodded a second later, and I could see she was excited at the prospect of spending a day with me. “Okay. I’ve actually got some time off work today. Should I get dressed?” she asked.

“Yeah, put on something...” I eyed her ensemble again. Those bunny slippers… seriously? I was grinning by the time my eyes reached her face. “Professional. And by professional, I mean bunnies optional.”

She stuck her tongue out at me and disappeared behind the door to her room. She left the door ajar, and I wasn’t sure whether she wanted me to follow her in or wait outside, so I stepped from one foot to another, feeling like a goddamned fool. When was the last time a girl had made me feel like this?

Never, that’s when.

I peeked through the door, seeing a sliver of Rory’s back as she got changed, and I moved away so fast that I tripped, stumbled forward into the door and hit my head.

“Are you okay out there?” Rory asked in a concerned tone as I mouthed curses and rubbed my sore head.

“Yeah, fine,” I said, cursing myself for being such a dweeb. “Come on, let’s get going.”

“One sec,” she called back.

I wanted to sneak another peek, but I knew better than that. Karma had already gotten back at me with the head-meets-door incident a few seconds ago, and I wasn’t about to tempt the fates again. A moment later, Rory exited her room and gazed up at me with a hesitant expression as she locked the door.

“Do I look okay?” she asked. Thank fuck for that question, because it gave me an excuse to ogle her.

“You look...” I began, drinking her in with my eyes. She’d put on a blouse and pencil skirt which accentuated every line of her curves. I knew I was staring, and by the way she blushed, I figured she did, too.

It felt like the hardest thing in the world to tear my eyes away and clear my throat, but I finally remembered my place, and then for good measure, I pictured Elijah’s face when he got extremely worked up, all puffy and red. That did the trick and subsided the stiffness in my pants.

“Finn?” Rory asked, giving me a questioning look.

“Yeah.” I snapped back to it, feeling my cheeks growing hot. For fuck’s sake, I was actually blushing. Rory was making me act and feel like a fucking ten year old girl. “Yeah, you look great. Shall we?”

We headed for the elevator, and I pressed the button for the lobby. It was fucking tense as we went down, seeing as it was hard to forget the last time we were in an elevator together, and I cleared my throat, trying to make things less goddamned awkward.

“So, what’s this fun plan?” Rory asked, tilting her head sideways.

“Well, you know those conference rooms we have in the hotel?” I said with a mischievous smirk. She nodded. “Well, we rent them out all the time, and today, a bunch of people from the pharmaceutical industry are renting one of them. I have a fun game I wanted to play with you.”#p#分页标题#e#

“Oh?” Rory blushed as we locked eyes, and I loved that she didn’t look away. I held her gaze, giving her a cheeky smile.