Her heart did a little flip. Garrett’s sweet, attentive demeanor and insatiable appetite these last two days had been a dead giveaway to his interest in her, but it was still nice to hear him say the words aloud.
“Think you’ll keep seeing her after we get home?”
Beneath the crisp sheets, Avery’s heart thumped wildly as she waited to hear his answer.
“We’ll have to work some things out as far as my schedule and all that. But I hope so.”
Yes!
Her inner girlie girl did a little happy dance. After their second round of sex last night, Avery had been wondering the same thing—whether or not this thing between them would continue on past their disembarking in a couple of days.
She’d wanted to bring it up but chickened out. Hope bloomed inside her hearing Garrett confirm his intentions for the two of them.
“Glad to hear it.” Colt clearly approved. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m pretty sure I need to throw up again. Have fun today. And try not to wreck the buggy.”
“No promises,” Garret teased his brother. “I don’t know what the service will be like, but you need anything, call the excursion company. Number’s in the email they sent. I’m sure they’ll be able to track me down.”
“I’ll be fine. Nothing a little sleep and a solid, stable bed won’t cure.”
Avery heard Garrett’s sexy rumble of laughter before, “We’ll check on you when we get back.”
“Sounds good, man. See ya later.”
The door clicked shut, and she couldn’t bring herself to close her eyes and pretend she was still asleep.
When Garrett appeared from the room’s small entryway, he caught sight of her stare almost immediately.
“Morning.” His oh-so-talented lips curved.
“Morning.” She held the sheet to her chest and shifted into a sitting position.
Walking over to her, Garrett leaned down, brushed some wayward hair from her face, and kissed her softly. “Sleep well?”
“I did.” She kissed him back. “Better than Colt, apparently.”
“You heard?”
Avery nodded. “Poor guy.”
“Yeah. He looked pretty green.” Sitting on the mattress beside her, Garrett trapped her with an arm across her blanketed legs. Keeping his weight propped up with one hand, he raised his other to her face, brushing the back of his knuckles across her cheek. “You’re so beautiful in the morning.”
An unladylike snort before she could stop it. “You’re delusional.”
“I’m serious.” He stared back at her in a way that made her believe him.
As ridiculous as it was, given the things they’d done to each other the past two nights, Avery felt herself start to blush. “Thank you.”
Garrett’s gaze held hers a moment longer before he asked, “So, what do you say? Feel like taking a forty-minute hike, spending half the day in a river, and then trekking through the countryside on a bumpy as shit ride?”
Laughing at way he’d repeated Colt’s description almost verbatim, Avery said, “Actually, I’d love to.”
“Yeah?”
She nodded. “Believe it or not, I looked at that exact same excursion on the cruise line’s website the night I bought my ticket. I thought it looked amazing, but I wasn’t sure how the cruise was going to go, let alone an adventure like that. So, I decided not to book it.”
“And how do you think the cruise is going so far?”
In a bold move, Avery let the sheet fall to her waist as she reached her arms around him and grinned. “So far, so good. What about you?”