Shane’s eyes flashed with excitement at the new offer.

Well, I can’t be too unreasonable.

With a grunt, he hung up.

Natalie knew him well enough to know that he had agreed. With a chuckle, she turned her attention back to Joyce. “I’m sacrificing so much for you, Joyce. When we go back, you’re going to work extra hard for me.”

At those words, Natalie turned off the light and with an almighty yawn, shut her eyes and drifted off to sleep almost immediately.

It had been a long day for her, after the jet lag and the night of drinking. Her head began to feel heavy for wanting to get some sleep.

The following day, Joyce woke up feeling rejuvenated. She was dumbfounded at the sight of Natalie sleeping next to her.

“Nat, why are you in my bed?” Joyce gave Natalie a shove.

“What’s going on?” Natalie mumbled as she opened her bleary eyes.

“You tell me! Why are you in my bed?” Joyce persisted.

 

Natalie massaged her head as she struggled to sit upright. “You have the nerve to ask me that!” she replied in a huff. “You were so drunk last night that after I’d dropped you off in your room, you cried and clung on to me, insisting that I kept you company.”

“Was… was that what happened?” Joyce strained to recall the events of the night before through the haze of champagne and tears. Unfortunately, nothing came to her mind.

 

she suggested. “You had a lot to drink last night. I have to console our friend. He wasn’t happy that I didn’t

alone in her room, who was

tiptoed toward the bed as she did

off but he was

go?”

him, a pair of arms shot out and

of the heartbeat against her back and the frantic breathing on the top of

back.” came Shane’s low

Natalie stuck her tongue out at him in response to

gazing at her for some moments, he lifted

widened in horror. “I have not brushed my teeth!”

either but kissed her with renewed

more forceful than the first time, as though it carried a hint of

Natalie

for her breaking her promise to him

realization. Instead, she wrapped

her stale morning breath,

kissing. With a powerful heave, he threw Natalie

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