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“I don’t want to sit on those delicious cookies.”
“I moved them.” Nibbling on her neck, I make my way down to her shoulder as I nudge her T-shirt out of my way. “You’re way more delicious than those cookies.”
“Right.” She snort laughs. “Seriously, we shouldn’t do this here.”
“Says who?” I kiss my way up the other side of her neck to her ear. “Because I don’t see anyone telling me not to.”
“You’re incorrigible.” She laughs and then sighs when my mouth returns to hers. I sink into the kiss, enjoying every bit of her.
Finally, she presses her hand to my chest, giving me the clue that it’s time to back off.
“We could disappear back upstairs. They wouldn’t miss us.”
June scrunches her nose. “I think the rooms are already being cleaned for the guests coming later.”
“Damn.”
Now she laughs as I step back and let her hop off the counter before she passes me the tray.
“You can carry these, and I’ll grab the pitcher of mimosas for refills.”
Outside, everyone is laughing, and both trays that Sarah and Luna brought out are empty.
“I guess those were good,” I say as I set down my tray. “So I get first crack at these.”
“You snooze, you lose,” Wolfe says as I take the same seat I was in before.
June chooses a chair about six feet away from me, and deciding that she’s too far away, I reach over, grab the leg of the chair, and simply pull her closer, effectively positioning her under an umbrella.
“There, now you won’t burn.”
“How chivalrous of you,” Sarah says with a grin. “You two have been really nice to each other while we’ve been here. It makes me wonder if we’re in an alternate reality.”
“Nah,” June says, shaking her head. “We just called a truce for the weekend. I’ll go back to calling him an idiot later.”
“Darn,” Sarah says, and she looks genuinely disappointed. “I like it when you get along.”
“And I like it when he’s not an idiot,” June adds, which has us all laughing.
I want to pull her into my lap and kiss the hell out of her in front of everyone so that it’s clear we’re together. It might also show her that I want more with her than just fucking around together behind their backs.
But she hasn’t given me the green light to do that yet.
“These cookies aren’t the best,” Luna decides, looking at a lemon cookie. “Which is shocking because Mira never misses.”
“Everyone misses sooner or later,” Wolfe replies and takes her cookie, bites into it, and frowns. “Yeah, this one isn’t great.”
“The peanut butter ones are to die for,” June adds and grabs another. “Thanks for these last couple of days, Luna. It’s been awesome. If your guests get even a quarter of the treatment you’ve given us, you’ll be booked out formonths.This will be the new it spot on the Oregon Coast.”
“Let’s put that out into the universe and make it true,” Luna replies with a laugh. “Because that’s my goal.”
“There’s no way this won’t be a huge success,” I assure her with a wink. “It’s incredible.”
Stayingat the inn for a couple of days made me feel like I was on vacation, and getting back to work wasn’t easy.
But being on a job site with Juniper Snow makes it a little easier.
“There isno smokingon any job site,” June says, her voice rising as she points her finger at one of her crew. He’s a new kid, around twenty, who just moved into the area. I think his name is Josh.