“You had fun?”
“I pretended they were all women.”
His laughter echoes through the stairwell.
I squeeze his hand again. “I had fun. Thank you. Didyouhave fun?”
“I was with you.”
“I’ve lived with myself for over thirty years, and I can assure you, that does not sound like the regular definition offunto me.”
“You clearly don’t know yourself very well.”
I can be fun. But I can benotfun too. “Thank you for being such a good sport about my players crashing the entire room.”
“I don’t count the pitchers as your players. So they only crashed half the room.”
That cracks me up. “Fair enough.”
“The rest of them were fine. Besides, I know something they don’t.”
“Oh, god, what kind of horrible Thrusty prank did you set up?”
“Sorry, Coach. That one’s confidential.”
And it will likely be hilarious. “Probably for the best.”
“But that’s not what I know that they don’t,” Duncan adds.
I peer up at him, silently telling him to go on.
“They don’t know I still get you to myself for a few more minutes.”
A few more minutes.More like hours. I hope. “You have plans tonight?”
It’s his turn to watch me as we push through the doorway onto my floor. “Do you?”
“I didn’t.”
“You do now?”
My door is close to the stairwell. I pull out my key and unlock it before I answer.
And I don’t so much answer as I grab him by the shirt and haul him into my apartment. “Stay,” I whisper. “I want more plans with you tonight.”
His pupils dilate and his gaze dips to my mouth for the briefest moment before returning to my eyes. “To kick my ass some more inCroaking Creatures, or did you want me to do your dishes, or?—”
I wrap my arms around his neck and lift myself the barest amount on my toes to press my mouth to his.
And beyond a soft “Fuck, Addie, yes,” he stops talking.
Settles those big hands on my hips and pulls me closer. Angles his mouth to take charge of the kiss.
I don’t know if I’m pulling him deeper into my apartment or if he’s pushing me. The backs of my knees hit the couch, and I wrap myself tighter around him.
My shoulder hitches.
I adjust it but ignore the pain.
