Page 79 of Cryptic Curse

Her cheeks redden.

“You think we could go into the main house?I could shower in one of the guest bathrooms and borrow some clean clothes from Vinnie.”

She blinks for a few seconds before speaking.“You…can usemyshower.”

Fuck.

“I could, but I don’t think any of your clothes would fit me.”I let out a nervous chuckle.

She reddens even further.

“Yeah, of course.”

She leads me to the back of her flat to a door.She keys in a code, and the door opens into the main house.A stairway stands in front of us, and she leads me upward and then to a vacant bedrooom.

“This is the room I use when I stay in this part of the house,” she says.“You can shower here.I’ll go ahead and get some clothes from Vinnie for you to put on.”

“Thanks.”

I go into the room and close the door, locking it behind me.

I walk straight into the en suite bathroom, start the shower, and shed my dirty clothes.I don’t want to leave a mess, so I fold them and set them on the counter.Then I step under the hot shower and let it pelt me.

What a fucking day.

Someone took Diego Vega’s body—or who we thought was Diego Vega—out of the ground on our property.But Eagle’s right.Whoever did it left the drugs.So it sure as hell wasn’t my brother.

And now?

Someone is threatening the woman I?—

I stop the thought abruptly.

The woman I… What?

I don’t know.

All I know is I’m having feelings that I’m not sure I’ve ever had before.

My dick is hard and throbbing, and though I hate the idea of jacking off in the shower that Daniela probably uses, I do it anyway.

After all, I volunteered to stay here until Vinnie and Raven get home, and I can’t have a raging hard-on the entire time.

Though I probably will no matter what.

I wash the dirt and silt off my body, give my hair a thorough cleansing not once but twice, and then rinse off.

I step out of the shower, wrap a towel around my waist, and use another to dry my hair.

My dirty clothes sitting on the counter remind me.

I have nothing to put on.

I shouldn’t have locked the door.Daniela could’ve come in and dropped off some clothes.

Of course, knowing she was in the room, that only a thin shower curtain separated her from my naked wet body…

Probably best that she didn’t come in.