Bound to Be His ( The Archer Family 2)

"Probably with an aspirin. Are you drunk?" he asked.

She shook her head furiously. "I stopped drinking hours ago when I finally decided that..."

She trailed off again and then took a deep breath and said, "I just poured Andy into bed. Logan was already asleep."

"Okay." He nodded.

"They're both pretty knocked out. It's just you and me."

The huskiness in her voice gave him pause, but he said, "Good, if we play Yahtzee, I'll know I can yell."

"No. Listen. I... We need some rules."

"Like not barging into my bedroom?" The corner of his mouth quirked up, and she rolled her eyes.

"Don't make me change my mind."

"That's a big ask when I don't know what the hell you're talking about," he said.

She nodded. "Right, right. Well... look, I've been thinking. This thing between us. It's not going away. I don't think it's going to, and I think it's been there for a lot longer than either of us will admit."

He stayed silent, unsure whether to trust whether she really meant what he thought she meant. And if she did...

His gaze flicked to the messy tangle of his sheets. "What are you saying?"

"I'm saying we need some rules."

"What, like Pretty Woman? No kissing?"

"How the hell do you know the rule in Pretty Woman?"

"I'm a man. I'm not dead."

She shook her head. "Right. Not important. Rules. We need to, I don't know, agree that whatever we do is confined to our bedrooms. No PDA. We're not a couple."

"So... you want me as your booty call?"

"Yes, I guess. My very secret, temporary booty call."

"How temporary?"

"Just until we're off the island. By then, we'll have all this out of our systems and we can find people we're more compatible with without wondering, you know—"

"What would have happened if we'd slept together more than we already have?"

"Right."

"You know you're crazy, right?"

She nodded. "Yup. Now take off your pants."

* * *

Matt laughed, and stared at her, though he did loop his thumbs through his belt loops hopefully. She couldn’t be serious, though. Not really.

What woman just barged into a man’s room and demanded to have her way with him? No, it was more likely that she was trying to get back at him for something—was trying to get him to strip down and then, when he was totally naked, she’d leave him there and laugh on her way out.

“Well, what are you waiting for?” she asked.