Chapter 116

“No, I didn’t. I swear.” She realized that she was standing there with bed-head, wrapped in a bedspread, mostly bare shoulders showing, and that Nolan was still half under the covers, clearly just awake and naked from the waist up, so her words wouldn’t carry much weight.

“Sleeping, okay, sleeping, but that’s it, and that wasn’t on purpose. He got into bed with me. I didn’t even wake up.”

“You know, that’s the nicest thing a woman has ever said to me.” Nolan cut in.

She glared at him. He was smirking, the jerk. He’d cheated on Michelle with a member of her own family and thought this whole thing was amusing? “You’re not helping.”

He put his hand up to block his mouth from Michelle’s view. “You want me to tell her what you can do in your sleep?”

“Shh.” She looked around. Any weapons? Blunt or otherwise?

“What are you whispering about?” Michelle shrieked. Shrieking must run in their family. Candace had never noticed before.

“State secrets.”