23: The Moon Honey

[ K A R A ] Sunlight was spilling in through the large window, causing my eyes to flinch. The sun was out and bright. I looked over lazily to the clock on the wall— it was 9.15 AM! "Holy shoes! Ryder, wake up!" I released myself from his grip but he pulled me back down to the bed almost instantly. "No," he groaned. "But it's 9.15, we have to send Peter and Lacey to the airport!" I said as his eyes jerked open. I rolled to my side and tried to get up, but my body was too sore, I ended up falling back to the bed. Ryder let out a laugh. "Ugh... I needa take a shower," I said, mainly to myself. But Ryder quickly got up and in one fell swoop, he took me in his arms and carried me off to the en-suite bathroom. "Ryder, what are you doing?" I protested. He put me down inside the walk-in shower. "You said you needa shower?" he said as he closed the glass door behind us. "Yeah, I didn't mean that as an invitation," "Good. I don't need one," he said, smirking. And then he turned the shower on and