29. Maverick

Chapter 29

Maverick

The motel room is a chaotic mess when we get back.

Boots kicked into corners, half-zipped duffels slumped against the wall, clean clothes tangled with dirty ones.

Colt’s digging through his bag for a clean shirt when he suddenly freezes.

“Is that my shirt?” he asks, voice suspicious.

I glance down.

Yeah, it’s definitely his.

Soft and worn, clinging a little too tightly across my shoulders.

“You left it on my side of the bed,” I say, tugging the hem down, pretending like my heart isn’t beating a little faster.

“You coulda folded it, not stolen it.”

“Folded it?” I bark out a laugh. “What am I, a fuckin’ laundromat?”

He crosses his arms, eyes dragging over me way too slowly.

“I want it back.”

I shrug, cocky. “Too late. Smells like me now.”

Something shifts in his expression, a flash of heat that makes the air between us spark.

He stares a beat too long before snapping his duffel closed a little too hard.

“Whatever,” he mutters. “Looks better on you anyway.”

I swear the whole room tilts a little under my feet.

Neither of us moves for a minute.

Not until he shoulders past me on his way to the bathroom, knocking my arm with his rougher than necessary.

Not that I mind.

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