I wipe my face with my hand and blink through the droplets of water to find some shampoo. The bottle is nothing like the one I have at home, but it is the same scent, and if I'm not mistaken it's a brand I could never actually afford. As I massage it into my hair, I can already tell my hair is going to want to thank Miller later. He spared no expense on the conditioner, and once I get to the body wash, I'm already prepared for it to be the best I've ever used.
"Hey, what's your favorite movie?" Alec asks, and I rub at the fogged-up glass to peer through at him.
"Uh, I don't know, why? How long have you been in here?"
"A few minutes. I told you I'd come right back."
I shut the water off, not quite ready to get out, but ready to get into bed.
Alec greets me with a towel, wrapping it around my body the second I'm done. "I was going to put it on the TV for you."
"Oh..." I ignore the throbbing in my torso, secure the towel around my chest, and reach for another one to wrap my hair up in. "You don't have to do that."
Alec narrows his gaze at me. "Let me love you, damn it."
I stop my rummaging through the cabinets to turn toward him. "How aboutCrazy, Stupid, Love?"
"That's the one with the guy...what's his name?"
"Ryan Gosling," I tell him as I continue my search for body lotion.
Alec snaps his fingers. "Yeah, that's it. And that other guy, the funny one."
"Steve Carrell."
He snaps again. "Yes. And that girl, oh man, what's her name, don't tell me."
I smile and realize the lotion I was looking for was right in front of my face the whole time. I pump some of it into my palm and smooth it over my body, starting with my legs and working my way up.
"Emma Stone," Alec says triumphantly.
"Good job," I mutter and look through the rest of the contents of the drawer until I find a face lotion.
"I never knew something so simple could be so hot." Alec leans against the wall and shakes his head, his eyes a bit wide.
"What?"
"You. That lotion. I don't know. It's doing it for me."
I yawn and hate the way the pressure pushes on my aching ribs.
"Shit, Cor, you okay?" Alec rushes from his spot across the bathroom to my side in an instant.
"I'm good, really, it just caught me off guard." I pat his hand and force a look on my face that is supposed to resemble a smile but probably comes across more like I'm constipated.
"You don't have to lie to me, it's okay not to be okay." Alec tips my chin and steps away, grabbing onto something sitting on the counter and bringing it over to me. "I found this though, thought you might want to wear it." He holds the sides of the top to show me a beautiful, cushy, light blue robe.
Without hesitating, I slip my arms into both sleeves and fold it over my chest, tying it loosely and wiggling out of the towel covering my body. "This is the most comfortable thing I have ever worn in my entire life." I bring it to my nose and breathe it in. "It even smells good. Here, smell it." I extend some of the fabric toward Alec and he sniffs it obediently.
"Damn, it does smell good. What is that, lavender?"
"I think so." I snatch the towel I dropped around my ankles and hang it on a nearby hook to dry and follow Alec out of the bathroom and into the bedroom.
He's pulled back the covers on one side and gotten me a glass of water and a bottle of pain reliever. Alec even brought a chair that was originally perched in the corner of the room next to the bed.
"I can't stay much longer but I thought I'd sit with you while you fall asleep," he tells me, my heart swelling with every word he speaks.
Alec is so fucking thoughtful it begs the question, how the hell is he still single and what did I do to deserve this treatment from him?
