Me-Before-You-by-Jojo-Moyes

possible to enjoy himself.
Besides, I was secretly glad. I liked Nathan, and I was grateful that he had
come, but I preferred it when it was just Will and I. I liked the shorthand we
seemed to fall into when nobody else was around, the easy intimacy that had
sprung up between us. I liked the way he turned his face and looked at me with
amusement, like I had somehow turned out to be so much more than he had
expected.
On the penultimate night, I told Nathan that I didn’t mind if he wanted to
bring Karen back to the complex. He had been spending nights in her hotel, and
I knew it made it difficult for him, walking the twenty minutes each way in order
to sort Will out last thing at night.
‘I don’t mind. If it will … you know … give you a bit of privacy.’
He was cheerful, already lost in the prospect of the night ahead, and didn’t
give me another thought beyond an enthusiastic, ‘Thanks, mate.’
‘Nice of you,’ said Will, when I told him.
‘Nice of you, you mean,’ I said. ‘It’s your room I’ve donated to the cause.’
That night we got him into mine, and Nathan helped Will into bed and gave
him his medication while Karen waited in the bar. In the bathroom I changed
into my T-shirt and knickers and then opened the bathroom door and pottered
over to the sofa with my pillow under my arm. I felt Will’s eyes on me, and felt
oddly self-conscious for someone who had spent most of the previous week
walking around in front of him in a bikini. I plumped my pillow down on the
sofa arm.
‘Clark?’
‘What?’
‘You really don’t have to sleep over there. This bed is large enough for an
entire football team as it is.’
The thing is, I didn’t really even think about it. That was how it was, by then.
Perhaps the days spent near-naked on the beach had loosened us all up a little.
Perhaps it was the thought of Nathan and Karen on the other side of the wall,
wrapped up in each other, a cocoon of exclusion. Perhaps I did just want to be
near him. I began to walk towards the bed, then flinched at a sudden crash of
thunder. The lights stuttered, someone shouted outside. From next door we heard
Nathan and Karen burst out laughing.