Chapter 9: Bedmates
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As soon as I saw Edrick sleeping on the other side of my bed, I immediately averted my gaze down at myself to make sure that I was still dressed.

I was still fully clothed… And this time, I knew for a fact that I hadn’t h***ked up with him. I was completely sober when I went to bed, so I would’ve remembered.

So, why was Edrick in my bed?

While I was still processing what was going on, Edrick’s eyes suddenly opened and he stared right at me. I yelped and jumped out of the bed, running to the other side of the room.

“What are you doing in here?” I asked, my voice shaking.

Edrick slowly sat up and looked around, looking equally as confused as I was. “I have no idea,” he said, looking down at himself in the same manner I did; no doubt to also check to make sure he was fully clothed. “I was really drunk last night. I guess I confused your room with mine.”

side of the penthouse,” I growled. “And it’s an entirely different layout. You weren’t so drunk that

bed. “I’m sorry,” he said, standing and splaying out his hands with his palms facing outward in a display of surrender. “I really don’t

faded and his

would have me sign a contract stating I wouldn’t get romantically involved with him, only for him to violate those terms within the first week by crawling into my bed in

floor. “I was awake for quite a while after you went to bed.

making me promise not to get romantically involved, you got sentimental over our one night stand and climbed into my

something about you that helps me sleep. I remember when we slept together in the hotel, I slept like a baby that night for the first time in years. I don’t know what it is, but it must’ve drawn me to you last night. But I’m sorry. It

attitude and partially intrigued by it. If he wanted to become involved with me so badly, why didn’t he just

“Unless what?”

I’ll pay you to sleep with me. With clothes on,

folding my arms across my chest. “Wouldn’t that go against the contract that was so important to you?” I asked. “What, are you trying to make

can write up a supplemental agreement — in exchange for a salary increase, we’ll share a bed. Just until I

the drawer full of pills in the kitchen,

you really promise not to make

for my daughter. Who, by the way, can never

something like this, but a salary increase for simply sleeping next to someone was tempting. I could just see it as a way to pay off my student loans more quickly, and maybe

said with a pensive

agreement with Edrick. Ella didn’t seem to notice that my mind was wandering a bit as I helped her get ready for the day and attend her lessons, and

time Edrick and I slept together, it had turned into a one night stand and a subsequent argument. I couldn’t deny the feelings that arose in me when I woke up to find him unexpectedly next to me, even though we were

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