I scanned the room and smiled when the perfect color of paint popped into my head. There were three doors in the room. Any one of them led to the master bathroom. It was almost like a game, what was behind the door!
The first door I walked up to was the winner. I figured with its placement it had to be the bathroom. What I hadn’t figured was what I was going to find in said bathroom.
“Holy. Shit.”
My hand came up over my mouth. Straight in front of me was the biggest window I’d ever seen. A giant oval tub sat in front of it. Closing my eyes, I pictured soaking in the tub, looking out over the mountain range. Of course, the only thing that would make it better was if Thano was soaking in there with me.
“Oh, for Christ’s sake. Stop it, Kilyn. Seriously, I need to get laid.”
Once I was able to pull my eyes from the view, I noticed the two beautiful vanities with their copper sinks. “Beautiful,” I whispered as I ran my fingers along the stone countertops.
“Yes, you are.”
Jumping, I slammed my hand over my chest.
“Shit! You scared me, Thano.”
He smiled but it didn’t reach his eyes. It was the first forced smile I’d ever seen from him.
“Um, this window! Wow.”
It was a poor attempt at a conversation, but I was at a loss as to why his eyes were filled with such sadness.
“Yeah, that was my idea. I’m kind of a bath guy and I love the view so I asked for a big window.”
Every nerve ending in my body tingled when he mentioned he liked baths. “Well, from one bath lover to another, good call.”
I stepped into the massive shower that could easily fit four people in it. Two rain head faucets hung down, and a handheld faucet hung on the wall.
“You could seriously have some fun in this shower,” I said with a chuckle before realizing that I said it out loud.
Shit.
Thano leaned against the counter and nodded. Okay, this was getting awkward.
Stepping out of the shower, I made my way past him and back into the living room. I only had the room above the garage to look at next.
I turned to ask him where the steps were to the bonus room and shut my mouth quickly. Thano was staring at me and I wasn’t sure if it was a good kind of a stare or a bad one.
“I’m sorry about earlier. I’d like to explain my reaction if you don’t mind.”
I grinned softly as I lifted my shoulders. “It’s totally fine, you don’t owe me any explanations.”
Oh, God. Maybe that was what he called the girl he loved who broke his heart. That would totally suck big time. I needed to wrap this up so we could head back.
“I only need to look at the bonus room, and then I’m done and we can leave.”
The way he looked at me, you would have thought I told him his favorite dog died. His eyes fell to the floor before he turned and started walking down a hall.
With a quick peek behind a door, it revealed the laundry room. Good. I was about to ask if he put it in the garage. That would suck during the winter.
The set of stairs were tucked behind the laundry room with another door leading outside to a covered walkway that lead to the garage.
“So you’re thinking you’d like to have your office up here?” I asked quickly sketching out the room.
“When I was little, my favorite thing to do used to be going to my grandmother’s house.”
I stopped what I was doing and turned to look at him.
“She loved being in her garden. She didn’t speak much English, so when my brothers and I were little, our parents talked to us in both English and Greek. We quickly picked up both. Our grandmother, though, if she knew a word in English she would speak it. One day I was standing there and about ten ladybugs landed on me. I was in heaven.”
With a light chuckle, I imagined the scene in my head.
Thano cleared his throat and shook his head. I swear, it looked as if he had tears in his eyes.
“Anyway, I guess when you said I was calling you ladybug, it threw me. I’ve never called anyone by a pet name.”
I smiled. “Well, maybe I remind you of your grandmother?” Oh, gesh. I just compared myself to his grandmother. Well, if I was looking for sex from him I killed any chance of it.
Gesh, Kilyn. Stop talking.
Tossing his head back, Thano busted out laughing. At first I chuckled along with him. But when he kept laughing, almost to the point where he was holding his side and wiping tears away, I got pissed.
“What is so funny?”