Everything I want: Will Alfie and Lily's love survive?... by K. L. Shandwick Page B

I woke during the night, there was someone lying beside me. I froze. His hand was draped over my hip all slack and relaxed, and from the faint snoring, he was sound as leep.
    I reached out and found the little switch on the wire of my bedside light. With a soft click, the room was bathed in lamp light. Cody lay beside me, unconscious, wearing a pair of Calvin Klein boxer briefs. Thankfully he was face down, so I only had his backside to deal with.
    “Cody what the fuck you doing in my bed?”
    Cody peered up at me with one eye. “Sorry, I crashed in Lennon’s room, and the dude got into bed. As if it wasn’t traumatic enough having a dude lying next to me, the guy sleeps like a fucking gymnast doing a floor routine. So…I kinda gave up that gig and came in here. I figured with you having the only other bed, you wouldn’t mind all that much, you being used to sleeping with Jack n’all. I just needed somewhere to lay my weary ass,” he mum bled.
    I exhaled loudly, trying to decide what I thought about Cody lying in the same bed as me. I definitely didn’t want any misconceptions about why he was t here.
    “Hang on.” The mattress dipped under my weight, before I stood and walked to open the bedroom door. Then I got back into bed.
    “If you have to touch an ass in your sleep, make sure it’s your own, Cody. And if there is any snoring you’re on the tile floor with a blanket, go t it?”
    Cody chuckled. “You needed to open the door to tell me that?”
    “Nope, I opened the door to prevent the others from thinking I was getting jiggy with you.” I smi rked.
    It actually felt comforting to have someone lay next to me. I slept like a contented baby. When I woke up, I was the one spooning him with my hand cupping a pectoral muscle, and my body snuggled up tight to his ass.
    My eyes sprung open and as soon as I realized what I was doing, I jumped back like I’d been scalded. Cody’s body was shaking in silent laughter. “Been lying here wondering what your reaction was going to be when you woke up to what you were d oing.”
    He looked over his shoulder, and the shock on my face made him crack up with laughter. “You left me lying like that? You fucking pervert,” I hi ssed.
    He smirked as his eyes crinkled up with humor. “Hey, less of that. I wasn’t the groper here, I was the one being groped, reme mber?”
    Lennon walked past the room and tracked back on his heels. “Shit. No fucking way, this isn’t happening.” He looked completely freaked out at seeing both of us in bed and stalked into the room. Cody looked at me and wi nked.
    “Lily was promised a threesome with Rick last night, and it didn’t pan out, she was a little…what was the word you used again, Lily?” He left the conversation hanging in the air, and I struggled with whether I should play along or tell Lennon the t ruth.
    Seeing Lennon’s devastated face, I decided to put him out of his misery. “It isn’t what it looks like Lennon.” He puffed his cheeks out, then let the breath he was holding hiss past his lips.
    “It never is,” he commented bla ndly.
    I grinned. “Seriously, Lennon? It’s your fault. You drove Cody into my bed.”
    I turned to Cody. “What was it you said, something like, Lennon sleeps like a gymnast doing a floor rou tine?”
    Lennon’s wide eyes flicked between the both of us, and I reassured him again. “We did sleep together, but that’s all we did.”
    Lennon smirked. “Gotcha! I had you going there, didn’t I h oney?”
    He smirked again and turned to Cody. “Get the fuck out of her bed, Cody. Besides anyone fucks Lily… it’s me. Boss’s perks an’ all.” He winked, laughing loudly at his own joke, before walking away in the direction of the family room.
    We all spent the day lazing around and resting. I was reading on my kindle and listening to music when Luca called. He had just landed at Miami airport. It was a surprise; he’d come back a day e arly.
    I wasn’t sure how I felt about