“Thank you.”
I felt a pause. It was so annoying that I couldn’t see his expression. It was more annoying that my body instinctively wanted to hug him.
“You’re very welcome, little one. Goodnight.”
CHAPTER FOUR
* Liam *
I was in such deep shit. The deepest. The Marianas Trench of shit.
Gwen could read me like a book. Now I’d have to call her with a report, not letting her hear in my voice that I was completely smitten with this gorgeous girl who I was now apparently taking care of for four more days.
Kayla was sweet, smart and funny. Yet it was much more than that. She tilted her head to the left when she started to laugh, never the right. Sometimes she pressed her lips together when she was thinking about what to say. Her delicate fingers reached out so carefully for her mug of tea.
She seemed a little jumpy, but that was understandable. Honestly, she was handling her predicament much better than anyone else I know would have. Including me. I’d be seriously ticked off at the situation. Kayla wasn’t angry, just… unnerved.
I had to put the mental image of her soft, curvy hips and breasts out of my mind, locking it away for a few weeks from now. This week
, I was not permitted to even think about what I desperately wanted to do with her sweet little body.
I needed to kiss her. Picturing those full, rose-colored lips that taunted me every time she smiled in my direction – it was almost painful.
Yeah, I was smitten. I was deep in smit.
And shit.
Buckets and mountains of it.
At the second I was trying to pull myself together, my phone rang. “Hi, Gwen,” I said, trying desperately to sound normal.
“How did it go?”
“Pretty good. She really doesn’t want to be a bother, but I think part of that is probably because she doesn’t know me at all. Once we got chatting, she seemed to loosen up a little.”
“Good. And the instructions made sense, with her pills and everything?”
“Yes. And like you said, I forced her to take them even though she said she wasn’t in pain.” I paused. “Well you know, strongly suggested.”
I could hear Gwen laugh. “I’m sure with your deep voice it sounded more like a command than a suggestion.”
“Hey – I am being a very caring sort of nurse dude right now. Give me a break.” I paused again so that she could keep laughing. “How is your ankle?” I asked.
“Bugger it,” she hissed. “So annoying.”
“Do you want me to come over and help you out for a couple of hours?”
“No. Thanks, but my new neighbor Alex checked on me, and gave me his number in case I need anything.” I could almost hear her trying not to giggle. “Would it be too forward to ask him for a sponge bath?”
I chuckled. “You’re terrible.”
“But he’s really, really cute,” she whined. “And you know how men love to save the damsel in distress.”
Did I ever, but I certainly couldn’t tell her that.
As always, Gwen seemed to know what I was thinking. “So, you and Kayla got along all right?” she asked carefully. “You were able to keep your distance?”
I closed my eyes, attempting not to think of my arms wrapped around Kayla’s waist in the doorway of the balcony. I tried to block out the feeling of her back pressing against my chest, her curvy round ass, pressing straight against my…