Chapter 40: Otter Poop
VANESSA BELMONT
"You think we can skip our engagement party and stay here all night?" asked Nathan, rubbing my shoulder.
"You mean to sleep?"
He grinned. "No sleeping." He kissed me. "Hmm?" He went to kiss me again and I put two fingers to his lips.
"We have to go back. If we don’t, our families will lose face and that’s like cutting off a limb for them."
"What about after the engagement party?"
Well, that depended entirely on what Fiona did to make sure Nathan didn’t spend the night with me. But I had claimed him. I might as well have put a stamp on him. I looked at the strawberry mark on his neck. Heh. I put an actual stamp on him. One that Fiona would see and hate.
I have to admit it made my vengeful little heart happy to know how infuriated she’d be after seeing that love bruise.
"Vanessa?"
"Let’s sleep here tonight," I said. "Or not sleep."
"Maybe we can..."