Room 452

I smile at him and grab his hand. “C’mon! Best part about resorts is having a bar on every corner of the room.”

All three of us head to the bar and order another round of shots. The bartender pours three out, and we are about to take them when I hear a voice behind me. “I’ll get in on that.”

Erin and Billy smile, but my smile drops from my face before I even turn around. I whip around and face Sawyer. “I didn’t buy you one.” I say with a little too bratty of a tone.

He gives me a half smile. “The resort is all-inclusive. You didn’t need to buy me one.” He snaps back as he nods at the bartender to pour him one.

Erin pulls Billy’s arm. “Let’s take them over there. I’m not getting in the middle of this.”

They both walk off, and I call out after her. “Traitor!”

I grab the shot off the bar and throw it back before Sawyer even has his in his hand. The alcohol burns my throat and then warms my whole body, and I realize it probably wasn’t a good idea to take so many all at once. I can already feel my brain functions slowly shutting down.

Sawyer throws his back like it’s water, and his face shows no sign that he just downed straight up alcohol. He smirks down at me. “You’ve been avoiding me.”

I lean back against the bar. “I always avoid you. You just haven’t been seeking me out obsessively.”

He throws his head back and laughs. “Sorry, but when a beautiful woman looks at you the way you look at me, you can’t help but obsessively seek them out.” He leans closer. “No matter what you may think about me, I am a man first and foremost.”

I don’t have time to come up with a comeback because suddenly the smile drops from Sawyer’s face as something catches his eye across the room. “Fuck.” He mumbles under his breath. “I’ll be back.” He says to me as it looks like he tries to hide.

“Please don’t come back!” I call out after him as he walks away, but I am curious as to what he’s hiding from. I glance to where he was looking, but nothing stands out to me.

I turn back to where he left, and I see him trying to leave. There’s a crowd of people blocking the door though, so he is trying to squeeze through them. He freezes up all of a sudden, and his face drops. He turns around and puts on a fake smile as some girl approaches him.

They are talking for a minute or two when he suddenly points over at me. I open my eyes wide and almost choke on my drink since I realized I was just standing here staring at them while I sipped on my cocktail.

I quickly turn back toward the bar to try to pretend like I wasn’t stalking him. I twirl my straw around in my drink and don’t dare look back that way. I hear a throat clear behind me. I turn and see Sawyer with some cute little blonde girl. He gives me an awkward smile. “Uh...this is my girlfriend Blake.”

My eyes bug out of my head, and this time I really do choke on my drink. “Excuse me?” I ask through my cough.

He steps up next to me and wraps his arm around my back. He leans his mouth down to my ear. “Just keep your fucking mouth shut for three seconds.”

I glare up at him, but curiosity gets the better of me so I don’t say anything. Instead I smile over at the girl. Her smile is huge as she looks back at me. “I’m so sorry for interrupting your night, but I just couldn’t believe it when Sawyer told me he was in a relationship. I had to see it with my own eyes.”

I laugh because I agree with the girl. I’d love to see the girl who could handle his ass all day. “Oh you know.” I giggle.

Sawyer’s hand grips my side harder, and he pulls me up next to him. “She’s been begging me to dance all week. It was good seeing you.” He says.

The girl smiles at him again like she’s in love with him. “Good to see you too. I should get going now anyway. Our shuttle for the airport is leaving soon.”

Sawyer nods and then grabs my hand and pulls me toward the dance floor before I can ask him what the fuck is going on. Since this is a nightclub, it’s not like the music is romantic. More like bump and grind and then grind some more.

Sawyer places his hands on my hips, and I sway away from him a little. “Want to tell me why the fuck I just covered for what I can only asume was a booty call gone wrong?”

He smirks at me, and then he pulls my hips forward so that I am pressed up against him. “Gone wrong is an understatement. Let’s just say I wouldn’t be surprised if she somehow found out I was going to be here this week and booked a vacation at the same time under the guise of it being a work trip.”

I throw my head back and laugh. “A stalker is an unexpected twist. I half expected most girls to run from your room screaming.”

“There’s definitely screaming involved.” He smirks at me.

I roll my eyes and step back. “I think I’m going to go track her down and tell her the truth. I love to see you squirm.”

I try to walk away, but he pulls me back so my back is pressed up against his chest. Then he roams his hands down my sides as he moves to the beat behind me. I should pull away, but the feel of his hands on me again is doing crazy things to me.

His mouth presses up to my ear. “I’m not opposed to physically restraining you here until she’s gone.”

I must be drunk because I laugh at what he said. “Why would you trust me to go along with this? I don’t even know why I did. I was just too curious to see how it played out.”