“Oh…” Alfie expressed, looking around curiously. “We’re outside.”
“Do you like stargazing, Alfie?” he asked.
She nodded. “That I do, my lord.”
Caleb turned, and as he moved his arm from her shoulders to wrap around her waist, he said, “Caleb. Call me Caleb.”
Alfie looked at him for a moment, a dazed expression on her face. Then she smiled. “You don’t like me calling you my lord?”
Caleb gave her a grin, knowing she was teasing him. Another quirk of hers he adored.
He said, “No, I don’t. Now wrap your arms around my shoulders.”
“Why?” she asked curiously.
“Because I don’t want you to slip out of my arms,” he said seductively.
Alfie blushed in response, which pleased him.
Once he felt those two slender arms wrapped intimately around his shoulders, Caleb said, “Hold on tight.” Then h
