She let it weigh back and forth in her head. If she went to his apartment to shower she could see his place and then maybe she wouldn’t have to leave so early. It was just after one and she was starving.
“As long as you stick to your bathroom,” she said, trying to put some rules in place.
“Not a problem. I know I’m hungry enough to eat a horse. You?”
“I could eat a cow myself. I’m sure you know of some good places to get a burger.”
“Burgers happen to be my thing,” he said.
She went to the locker room to get her bag and met him back in the hall, then went to the stairs. “What floor?”
“Third. I figured you weren’t someone to ride in an elevator if you could walk.”
“That’s me. Plus I’m afraid we’d stink it up so much they’d have to spray it down after we got out.”
He laughed. “That thought had crossed my mind too.”
They got to his floor and moved to the end of the hallway. “How many places on each floor?”
“Four,” he said. “Two on each side. All four are around twelve hundred square feet.”
“Holy cow that is a decent-sized place.”
“It is,” he said. “Two bedrooms, two baths, and I’ve got a small office. Lots of entertaining space, but I don’t have people over often.”
She wasn’t sure what to say to that. She’d bet he had women over a lot but now wasn’t the time to make a comment like that.
“This place is huge. It doesn’t have a condo feel to it either. Nice and quiet.”
“It is all of that. Easy convenience for me here and low maintenance.” She followed him down the hall. “Bathroom is right there. Help yourself. We can shower at the same time. The water pressure is fine. If you need anything, I’m across the hall in my room.”
“Thanks.” Now she just had to get through the fact they were both going to be naked with only a few walls separating them.
* * *
Wyatt kept the grin from his lips until he was in his room with the door shut.
He was pretty proud of himself for getting Adriana in his place and knowing she was going to be naked.
Of course that wasn’t helping his cock growing in his pants at the moment especially since he wasn’t going to be getting anywhere near her.
When he heard the water running he knew she was getting into the shower and figured he should catch up.
He turned the water on himself, then peeled his damp shirt over his head, dropping his shorts and underwear down with them.
He adjusted the temperature of the water down so that it was cold enough to wake his butt up on a few hours of sleep like when he was in college.
He was wide awake, that wasn’t the problem. Getting control of his body was the bigger issue.
Once he was clean and dressed, he went back through his room and opened the door to see Adriana standing there with her hand poised to knock.
“I don’t suppose you are coming calling for the reason I’d like?” he asked.
She snorted. “Hardly. Do you have a hairdryer? I hadn’t planned on washing my hair, but then again I hadn’t planned on getting this much of a workout in either.”
“I’ve got one somewhere. Come on in while I look for it.”
She stood in his doorway looking around. He shook his head figuring he wasn’t going to ask her to follow him. But he did get her in his room.
He finally found it in the back of the closet still in the box. “I think I figured you for more colorful decorations.”
“No,” he said, handing the box over. “Hope this works. I never took it out of the box. I bought it last year when Jade needed to crash here while work was being done at her place.”
“Your sister didn’t have her own hairdryer?” she asked.
“She did, but I wasn’t sure if she was going to bring it. There was a gas leak in her building during renovations and she didn’t have time to get out what she wanted. I knew she’d be focusing on her clothes more than anything.”
“That’s kind of sweet you bought that for her. Here I figured it was for when a woman spent the night.”
He thought he did a good job of keeping any flush from his face. He had no reason to be embarrassed over her comment.
“I don’t think as many women stay here as you think.”
He’d rather go to their place so he could leave when he wanted, though he did stay the night a lot. His cousin Sam was the one that never wanted to spend the night with any woman.
“It’s none of my business,” she said and turned to walk out of his room while she opened the box. He couldn’t help but notice her long wet hair hanging down her back in curls and wanted to wrap it around his fist and yank her in for a kiss.
He didn’t. He kept walking past her into the kitchen and got another bottle of water while she finished drying her hair.
Ten minutes later she came out, it wasn’t dry all the way, just most of the moisture taken from it, leaving it looking glossy like fresh morning dew.
“So, food options?” he said. She seemed in a good enough mood so he was going to assume they were still on for lunch. “You said burgers? I know this great place. Want to drive together?”
“We could,” she said. “Let me grab my things and put them in my car on the way out.”
Which meant she was going to take away any excuse he would have had to get her back to his apartment.
They left the building, got in his car, and he drove to a
