On My Brother's Bed

pte

id's

up tangled in sheets t

whose face I co

ribly from how dru

hts. The feel of a stranger's hand

then

red through unfamiliar curtains as a deep, masculine scent lingered a

wled into

as on th

one Talia insisted I wea

to a man's silhouette, face turned away

recognize

remember how I

ll did I do

owly and trying not to wake him. The t

y dress back on with shaky fingers.

I would make sure we neve

out of the hotel a

pecting a text from Talia but nothing came. I looke

go straig

this way. So I located a st

be cool with it, and shrug the fact t

night felt so dangerous. I

ome, the front door

d Rhett forg

to move toward the stairs when the familiar

d peered around the

a bag on the counter, and a phone

eemed to be in a deep conversa

so calm like

fuck was

in that T-shirt that a

s flicked to me in a matter of

at reminded me of last night whe

They looked so famili

t was the same way

I saw the tattoo on his arm that lo

s I hall

. It didn't make sense. It had

gh

guy with that tat

re I stood. "You're up. I didn't come upstairs

t and back to Micah, trying

ed, forcing a smil

picked me up from the airport. Flight was hell." My b

he rails, his arms fol

" he said causally, but h

ou look like a walki

ough." Micah chirpe

nd he gave me a knowing

I muttered, brushing pa

e for barely a secon

und, and sta

same eyes. I knew I

was

No

s

trid," Rhett said, his vo

d up the stairs befor

the door, my chest rising and fal

just get

with Talia, Rhett's arrival, and how he force

t in the eye without wonderi

dam

eve it. It was

man I woke up to

r's best friend. He only teased me an

...why couldn'

ead me open. I couldn't remember much, but I could swear down

's voice called

d replied with a trembling voice.

e you've changed. I'm preparing something delicious." My

e I was suddenly ha

still racing in my arms meant anythin

with Rhe

hat the hell I was