Chapter 20. Noelle

Noelle startled awake and sat up in bed with the cover clutched to her chest. For a moment, she had no idea where she was, but as she looked around the masculine bedroom, the previous night came back to her and she smiled and stretched lazily. She reached over to the other side of the bed and felt the sheets. They were cold. Shane must have gotten up a while ago and left her to sleep in. 

She got out of bed and gingerly made her way to his bathroom where she washed her face and brushed her teeth with his toothbrush. His shirt from the night before was on the chair by his closet and she grabbed it and held it to her nose, glad he couldn’t see her acting like a school girl. He smelled so good. Sooooo good. Still grinning, she decided against her own clothes and shrugged his shirt on instead. It reached almost to her thighs and she loved the way it caressed her skin, knowing that he had been wearing it first.

She couldn’t hear him, so she made her way to the living roo