Suddenly Royal(94)

“Do you have time for breakfast?” I looked up at him. We couldn’t lie here all morning if he needed to go. And I needed to do something other than obsess about my fears.

“I have time to eat.” His eyes twinkled down at me. “And to take a shower.”

I rolled away from him and stood up, looking over my shoulder as I walked to the bathroom. “What are you waiting for?”

I turned the knobs for the water until I found a comfortable temperature. I was checking to make sure we had enough towels when he slid his hands around my waist. I sucked in a breath and fidgeted in his grasp.

“Your hands are so cold!”

“That’s why I’m trying to warm them up.”

“Dirty.” I stepped away from him and pulled open the shower door. I smiled at him as I moved under the water. He followed close behind and turned a knob so the extra shower head came to life.

“You already know I don’t play fair.”

My soaps had been put in the bathroom, which was kind of creepy, but I didn’t linger on it for too long. I poured body wash onto the bath sponge and began to lather my arms when Alex plucked it from my hands.

He didn’t say anything, just ran it over my body in slow circles. I had thought I was more than sated, but when he knelt down to wash my legs, my hormones came alive. He looked up at me, his wet hair trailing water down his shoulders as he lifted one of my feet and then the other. There was something gentle in his expression as he took his time cleaning me and it made my heart thump in a different way.

When he had finished I took the sponge and gave him the same treatment. I took my time cleaning every inch of his body. When I moved my hands down his thighs, he twitched and started to grow hard. Alex grabbed my wrists and wrapped my arms around his neck. He kissed me slowly before pressing his forehead to mine.

“I’d like nothing more than to stay locked away with you, but I have to go to Paris.” He twined his fingers with mine. “And if you kept doing that we aren’t going to make it out of your room.”

“Now you have something to look forward to.”

His eyes bored into mine. “I won’t be able to think of anything else.”

Eventually we finished getting clean and dried off. Thankfully, there were extra toothbrushes in the cabinets. I pulled out some new clothes and got dressed while he pulled his jeans from the night before back on. He stood there for a minute, looking around the room.

“What?” I pulled on a sock and looked at him as he frowned.

“I think my shirt is downstairs.” Alex looked at me and raised an eyebrow.

“Oh.” I realized we had left evidence. “Oh! I’ll go down and grab it.” I opened the door, but someone had folded and stacked his shirt and jacket neatly just on the other side. “So much for no one knowing what happened here.”

He took his shirt and pulled it on. “They won’t say anything, Samantha.”

“I know.” I frowned. “It’s not them I’m worried about.”

“The press?”

“I just got here and this would be even more fodder for the tabloids.” I bit my lip. “But it’s not just me, Alex. The papers would eat this up because it’s you. I mean, can you get in trouble for this?” I motioned between us.#p#分页标题#e#

“I’m a grown man, or hadn’t you noticed?”

“I noticed all right.” I smiled and sat down on the edge of the bed next to him while he put on his shoes. “I just don’t want to cause trouble for you.”

“People are going to be interested in us no matter what. That’s not going to change whether we’re together or not.” He looked at me seriously. “And there is no reason I would get in trouble over us.”

“Is there an us?” It sure felt like there was an us after last night. And this morning. And the shower.

“You told me you don’t do one-night stands.” He brushed some of the wet hair away from my face. “And while the sex is awesome, that’s not all I’m looking for either.”

“So, us.” I shook my head. “Alex, I—”

“Don’t make this complicated.” He frowned. “We can keep it quiet, see how it works.”

“Someone already knows.”

“There’s no getting around that. People are going to know; some people have to know.” He didn’t look happy about this plan and I felt guilty.

“Alex, it’s not that I don’t want people to know—it’s that I don’t want people to put pressure on us. I’ve been famous for a week and I already know that we would never get a break.” I grabbed his hand.