Page 36 of Pretty Little Shadow
Tight shorts and an oversized men's shirt.
A plain bralette and a pair of comfortable-looking full-coverage panties, too.
There was a note on the bottom, on a branded card from the boutique. Dare had scribbled:
You don't seem like the button-up shirt and long pants type, but lmk if I'm wrong. I'll return whatever you don't want, no worries.
-Dare
I read the card again.
And again.
There was no sex joke. Nothing suggestive at all.
I'd asked for pajamas, and he'd brought me pajamas. Many different types of them.
Technically, the spicy pictures earlier were my fault. I'd basically asked for them when I teased him.
I could admit that the pajama options were sweet of him.
And yeah, I genuinely liked talking to him, even if he was a pain in my ass. I'd get bored with someone who wasn't.
I just didn't see how a mate bond between us could work.I was off balance, with him. Even more than I was with everything else.Yes, I could handle him when we were interacting, but everything else that had to do with him was so extremely overwhelming.
It freaked me out, honestly.
So... what was I going to do?
For the moment, there was a simple answer.
Video games.
I pulled on the bralette and boxer shorts, threw all the rest of the clothes back in the bag to be dealt with at another time, and plugged my gaming console into the TV.
Hooking my headset up was easy, and I buried myself in video games afterward.
For multiple days.
seven
RAE
Darius went back to work,and continued going back. The pictures I watched for obsessively on the tracking website while I gamed proved that.
He didn't stop with the food, though.
Or the pictures.
Or the texts.
Or asking me if I needed anything.
I went through the clothes and sent the ones I didn't want back to the boutique. Dare dropped off more pieces in similar styles to the ones I’d kept, just a few hours afterward.
When I tried to return those, the hotel worker apologized and said they weren't allowed to accept them. I left them in the lost and found, but someone returned the bag to my room an hour later, so I gave up and accepted the gift.
I didn't ask Darius for anything else, and he didn't try to force it on me.
