Page 88 of Last Night Was Fun

“I in fact donotremember,” she said, and booped Emmy on the nose. “Which is a sign you threw one hell of a bash.” Piper sighed, but it came out dreamy and content. “Well, we’ll miss you, but seems like you’re having plenty of fun on land anyway.” She winked, and Emmy was thankful rejecting her invitation didn’t prompt a tantrum.

“Have fun, Pipes. Tell your husband hi from me.”

Piper squealed a delighted sound and scrunched her face. “Husband.I love him.”

“I know you do. Marriage looks good on you.”

“Thank you. Tell the first mate hi from me. And don’t forget to hydrate and eat today. Gotta keep your strength up,” she said with a suggestive bounce of her brows and walked backward with a bow.

“Bye, Piper,” Emmy called, and stepped back into her room.

Inside, she heard the shower still running. She noted the bathroom door left open with an intentional gap.

An invitation.

Her heart pumped hard, pushing heat into her face as she slipped inside. The glass stall had fogged over in the corner, but she could see Gabe’s shape moving in the steam. Puffs of mist spilled over the top of the door and filled the tiled room with the sweet coconut smell of the hotel’s soap.

Emmy dashed to the sink to quickly brush her teeth and saw Gabe had had the same idea from his toothbrush and toothpaste already sitting there. When she finished, she slipped off her robe and padded to the shower.

He’d been expecting her, obviously. A billow of steam poured into the room when she opened the door, and he held out a hand to help her in.

The large glass box could easily and comfortably accommodate two people, but he immediately eliminated the space between them and pulled her tightly against him.

“Hi,” she said, already breathless.

“Hi.”

He turned her under the waterfall spilling from overhead. As the stream washed over her, he followed it with his hands, smoothing her hair and down her shoulders to her chest, pausing the journey to circle his thumbs over her nipples. She arched into him, greedy for more. He obliged and wrapped his arms around her to pull her into a kiss. A kiss so slow and long and deep she literally gasped for air when he stopped.

“What did she want?” he asked.

“Who?” Emmy asked in a daze. Her mind was as foggy as the coconut-scented steam swirling around them.

Gabe quietly laughed. “Your sister.”

“Oh. It was nothing.” She rose on her toes to kiss him again. Herwet thigh slipped between his and she pushed her fingers into his hair. Her chest slid against his where he’d already soaped himself.

He gently pried her off and gazed down at her. Water clung to his long lashes and dripped off the curled ends of his hair. She’d seen him soaking wet fully clothed in the rain last night, but soaking wet naked was a whole different story. Her knees threatened to give out. “I don’t think all that pounding and texting was nothing.”

It took her a moment to realize he was talking about Piper and not what the two of them had spent last night and the past several weeks doing with each other. Her inability to think straight was largely due to his erection having returned full force and hotly pressing into her belly.

The need to be close to him, to drink him in and seal her body to his again, outweighed everything else in that moment, so she told him the truth to pacify his curiosity.

“Ben’s dad got the hotel to comp a yacht for a brunch cruise for everyone, but I told her no thanks.” She leaned in to kiss him again, but he pulled back.

“What? Why would you do that?”

“Because you get seasick.”

“Well, yes,Ido. But that shouldn’t stop you from having fun. You should go, Emmy.”

“And leave you here alone all day? No way.” She shoved her way in this time and got a full two seconds of his luscious mouth before he pulled back again.

“Emmy.”

“Gabe.”

He sighed, sounding truly dismayed. “I’ll be fine. I’ll go fishing again or something. I can call Henry. Don’t let me get in your way.”