Chapter Forty Two

"Will you leave me alone if I do the above?"

"I'll kneel at your feet and praise you like the god you think you are, Seb."

"Fine, I'll take her out for the morning. But I don't promise to kiss and fuck her."

"You'll get there, now hurry up... Charlotte is visiting me," he grins, a sly look of excitement filtering on his face as he mentions our best friend.

"Oh. Oh, now I get it. You need us gone to fuck," I sigh, shaking my head as we stare at one another whilst I button my shirt from bottom to top.

He looks at me unashamed and nods, his head bobbing enthusiastically.

"Not gonna make baby number two if we don't," he shrugs, moving away to make the bed. I watch, enthralled, as he sweeps through the room, making it presentable. And then he breaks out fake petals that he draped over the bed and floor and into the bathroom, where he deposits a candle that he ought not to burn here in a hotel suite.

"Make sure they change the bed sheets when you're done," I throw over my shoulder a