“I looked!”
“Well, I don’t know if I believe you.”
Kevin didn’t reply.
…what was he doing?
Was he still standing at the top of the stairs, tanned skin beaded with water, his hair dripping down his back, cheeks flushed and rosy because he always turned the shower up far too hot?
“Kevin?”
Nothing.
I put my e-reader down and sat upright. “Kevin?”
I heard a very faint moan.
“Are you up there wanking again?” I shouted. I got to my feet and marched to the door. He’d better not have got started without me. I rushed out into the hall. I’d beenteasinghim, and I?—
I yelped when he grabbed me, pushed me up against the wall, and shoved his tongue down my throat.
“Hmm,” he said, pulling back with a hard suck that left my bottom lip throbbing. “Thought I’d get more of a reaction out of you than that. It wasn’t very high at all.”
I pushed at his shoulders. “I don’t screamthathigh, stop exaggerating.”
“I’ll have to think of something else to make you scream.” He took hold of my wrists and held them against the wall, either side of my head.
As long as he didn’t bust out another mouse, he was welcome to try.
“You’re still wet,” I said. Kevin’s hair was dripping down his neck. Little beads of water slipped down to skate over his shoulders and down his thick chest, chasing each other down, down, down. The droplets glimmered over his abs. Pooled in his bellybutton. Soaked into?—
He tipped my chin up. “It was a little treat for you.”
“I beg your pardon?”
“A little treat. I know you like me wet.”
I mean…I did. I didn’t knowheknew that.
“I pay half the water bill,” he said. “It’s not that high. We don’t really have to shower together as much as we do.”
“It’s not about themoney. Showering together is efficient time-wise,” I informed him. “And it’s good for the environment.”
“Yeah.” He stepped back and removed his towel.
My eyes nearly fell out of my head.
I should be used to naked Kevin by now.
I wasn’t.
“So, I’ve been doing some research,” he said.
“Hmm?”
“Charlie.”
I dragged my eyes up to his face. “Yes. Sorry. What are you researching? Water bills?”