21
The night you’d been proposed to by your dream man on national TV, you really didn’t want to crash at your brother’s place. So Nina and Jim booked a room in a fancy hotel near the ballpark. Visiting teams stayed at the Millennium, as well as management types coming for interviews, and now—two blissfully happy engaged people.
They shut the door, closed the curtains, put on the Do Not Disturb sign, and curled up under the covers. Fully dressed.
All that blissful happiness suddenly turned awkward.
“Um…do you always sleep with your clothes on?” Jim whispered in the dark.
“No. I usually sleep naked.”
“Me too.” In the warm cocoon under the covers, his breath feathered across her face. “So why do we have our clothes on?”
Her heart kept doing a weird start-and-stop thing. She’d always kn
