“What did I do, tell me what did I say that kicked up dirt and brought out this side of you baby? It’s one of those moods; yeah it’s the one of those days. What kind of dark snuck up and took a bite of you baby? The longer it goes well, the shorter your fuse. Maybe you’d know if you walked in my shoes. Damned if I don’t and I’m damned if I do.” –Little Big Town
EPOV
We were sitting side by side in a booth, three fourths of the way through the wine tasting and Sookie had been teasing me all fucking day. I had gotten glimpses of the lingerie she was wearing little by little, but I had yet to see the whole thing. I knew she was wearing red, which was like waving a red flag in front of an angry bull. She smelled amazing and she was very close to completely drunk. I knew she’d crossed the border into being totally wasted when she pulled my hand into her lap, and then under her skirt between her legs.
I leaned over and whispered in her ear, “Before we get to the car you better figure out a way to lose your panties, or I’m ripping them off of you.”
Because of the tasting there was a car service that was taking us back to the inn, so we didn’t have to worry about having too much to drink.
“I don’t know about that, boyfriend,” she giggled.
“I do,” I growled and bit her earlobe.
“But the panties are part of the ensemble,” she pouted at me.
“That’s too bad,” I sighed, and moved her hand to my lap. “You’ve been toying with me all day.”
“Is that a summer sausage in your pants, or are you just happy to see me?” she said, and burst into a fit of giggles.
I checked to make sure the proprietor of the vineyard was still taking his phone call before moving my hand back between her legs and rubbing against her panties. That shut her up.
“Fuck,” she groaned into my ear. “Not fair.”
“You’ve been teasing me all day,” I said, pushing the lace to the side and I knew I found what I was looking for when she grabbed my wrist. “I think this is exactly what you want.”
“If you were skilled you could get me off before the man comes back,” she challenged.
“If I was skilled?” I lifted an eyebrow and she bit her lip.
“I said what I said.”
I stared at her intensely and pulled her left leg up over my right one to give me a little more room to work. She slouched a bit to give me access to her tight little pussy. Anyone who saw her would just think she was drunk, and she wouldn’t be the first person to leave a tasting wasted. Her eyes locked on mine and that poor bottom lip of hers stayed tucked between her teeth. It was a good thing too, because when she was drunk she was louder than usual when she came.
She was already wet when my fingers had started rubbing against her panties, so I couldn’t help but wonder how long she had been waiting for this. My middle finger glided into her easily and my palm rubbed against her clit while I fucked her with my hand.
I leaned closer to her and whispered, “You’re a naughty girl, wanting me to get you off in public like this. Maybe when we get back to the inn I should tie you to the bed and give that gorgeous ass a spanking for you being such a little tease all day.”
She whimpered and the skin around where she was biting her lip was starting to turn white.
“Do you want that, Sookie? Do you want me to tie you up, spank you and then fuck you so hard that you feel it for days?” I whispered in her ear and all she could do was whimper. I pressed a little harder against her clit and the finger inside her found the right spot, and when she exploded she buried her face in my shoulder.
Just as the proprietor was coming back into the room, I was licking my finger clean. She tasted better than any of the wines we’d had all day.
“So, have you found something you like?” Edward asked as he approached the table.
“I have,” I said, and gave Sookie’s thigh a squeeze. “I really like the house Chardonnay, but my father will get the ultimate vote on this. In the meantime I’ll take a case of it to bring back.”
“Very good,” he nodded. “How about you, Sookie?”
“It was all good,” she said dreamily with a smile.
Edward chuckled and said, “Looks like it’s a good thing you’re taking a car service back. Let me just write up the order and I’ll have the wine shipped to your office.”
“That would be great,” I smiled at him, and he departed to go do the paperwork. “How you doing there, killer?” I looked over at Sookie.
“Love you,” she said, and giggled.
I laughed quietly and said, “You’re so wasted.”
“On looove,” she giggled more.
“Well try to keep it together for the next ten minutes, and then you can be as goofy as you want,” I kissed her head. “Did you want me to order anything else to take home?”
“Is there another one of you on the menu?”
“Baby you can barely handle one of me,” I smirked at her.
“I can too handle you!”
“Yeah we’ll see about that.”
“I suppose we will,” she said. “And when we stand up, you need to help me, ’cause I have a feeling I’m gonna be a little wobbly.”
“Deal,” I leaned over and kissed her.
Edward came back a few minutes later with the paperwork. I signed what I needed to sign, and then he walked us out of the cellar where the tasting was. The car was waiting for us out front, and I promised that I would be in touch at some point the following week to let him know what decision we had come to. The vineyard was beautiful and I was glad that Sookie had agreed to come along with me.
She got into the car carefully so as not to flash her ass at anyone and I climbed in after her. I gave the driver instructions to return to the inn, and there was a part of me already grimacing that we were going to do this again the next day.
“Are you planning to wear lingerie tomorrow too?” I asked Sookie once we were on the move.
“I only brought the one set,” she said, and kissed my neck.
“Thank God,” I groaned when her hand landed in my lap.
“Eric, you still have sausage in your pants,” she giggled.
“That always seems to be the case when you’re around,” I told her.
“And it’s only that way for me,” she whispered in my ear.
“Truth,” I nodded, and my head fell back against the back of the seat.
“It’s my magical pussy, isn’t it?”
She was definitely drunk if she was talking like that, but that was fine with me. She had a tendency to talk dirty when she was wasted. It was yet another thing that made her adorable.
“Yep,” I smiled but didn’t open my eyes.
“Do you wish you were buried in me right now?” she asked, then bit my neck lightly. “‘Cause I do.”
My eyes opened and I pulled her over so she was straddling my lap. “That’s easily fixed, Sookie.”
“But what if the driver should hear us?” she asked, but her eyes sparkled with want.
I put my hand over her mouth and said, “I’ll make sure you keep quiet.”
She smiled, and I could see it in her eyes, then her hands went down and unzipped my pants.
“Help me,” she whispered, and then reached down to pull her panties aside.
I pulled her skirt up so it was bunched around her waist, at least for the moment, and then reached into my pants to pull my cock out. She looked down and licked her lips, watching me while I stroked myself slowly.
“Fuck, that feels good,” I groaned, and then her hand covered mine.
“Eric, please,” she whispered.
“Please what?” I smirked at her.
“You know what,” she glared at me, giving me her best angry face but she wasn’t really angry. She was horny and I was depriving her of what she really wanted.
I moved my hand out of the way and said, “It’s all yours, pretty girl.”
She smiled and leaned in to kiss me, lifting her hips at the same time and positioning my cock at her entrance. To my surprise she slammed down and it was a good thing we were kissing because both of us groaned when I filled her. My hands cupped her ass and her hands braced on my shoulders while she rode me fast and hard, grinding against me as she did so. Our mouths stayed joined most of the time, and it was good because it meant I was swallowing her moans.
When I slapped her ass she moaned louder and I moved my head to whisper in her ear, “That’s what you have to look forward to when we get back to the inn.”
She whimpered and her pussy started to flutter. She started nibbling on my neck and said, “Babe, I’m gonna come.”
I already knew that, but I held onto her hips and started to thrust up into her. She covered her mouth to muffle a scream, and reached down with her other hand to rub her clit. When she came the tight squeezes milked my own orgasm from me, and I had to bite my lip to keep from shouting.
“Good holy God I needed that,” she panted into my neck. Her hips were still moving.
“Me too,” I said, and moved her hips a little faster.
She moaned, “What are you doing?”
“Giving you a taste of your own medicine, I think,” I said, and held her in place while I moved my thumb to her clit to rub it.
“Oh god,” she groaned, and buried her face in my shoulder.
“Should we see how fast I can make you come again, Sookie?” I asked as she shook on top of me.
“I’m going to…” she panted.
She was always hypersensitive after an orgasm so it didn’t take much to get her to another one, and even though she was drunk, she came again quickly. And because I had never pulled out of her, the sensation of being inside her while she came again had me rebounding faster than usual.
“Want more?” I asked her, knowing she was probably reaching her limit.
“Only if you can go again,” she grinned as she rocked her hips.
“Keep doing that and it won’t be a problem,” I smiled at her.
She said nothing in response, and simply smiled while rocking her hips faster. After a moment, she leaned forward and started whispering in my ear.
“I love the way you feel inside me right now,” she said. “So big and so deep. I love how your cock makes me feel, how you make me come so hard.”
I wrapped an arm around her and shifted us so she was lying down on the seat, and with her legs pushed up closer to her chest I was able to get even deeper inside her.
“Like that?” I asked, and thrust into her hard.
“Yes!” she cried out.
I kept thrusting into her hard and deep, grinding myself against her clit, and the way her nails started to dig into my shoulders I knew this orgasm was going to be the one that put her over the top. I covered her mouth when she came, but I don’t know how much good it did because she definitely screamed. Muffled as it was, I loved hearing my name leave her mouth that way, and it was what finished me off as well.
I let go of her mouth and when I pulled out of her she surprised me by shifting quickly and taking my cock in her mouth to clean me up. For a second I thought she was going to keep at it until I was hard again, but as soon as she deemed me clean enough she released me with a kiss on the tip of my cock, and then smiled up at me.
“I need a fucking nap,” I laughed, and let her tuck me away in my pants.
“Uh huh,” she giggled, and took a seat next to me again. “You can admire my lingerie after we wake up.”
“Works for me,” I wrapped an arm around her, and she rested her head on my chest.
“Thanks for all the orgasms, sweetie,” she said, and patted my leg.
“You’re very welcome,” I kissed the top of her head and then closed my eyes.
“I love you,” she whispered, and kissed my neck before settling her head back on my chest.
“Love you too,” I mumbled, already shutting down.
oOoOoOo
A week later we were back in Louisiana. The trip had been very good for us, and I had accomplished the things I needed to as far as business was concerned, so it was a win/win all the way around. I was actually in the middle of cleaning the apartment when the door opened and I heard Sookie calling out to me.
“Back here!” I shouted from the bedroom.
“Hey honey,” she said when she came into the room, and gave me a kiss before making herself comfy on the bed. “Are you cleaning?”
“Well my maid service has been MIA,” I teased and she threw a pillow at me.
“And it’ll continue to be if you keep referring to me as such,” she warned.
“I’m kidding,” I said and threw the pillow back at her.
“Uh huh.”
“So what brings you by on this lovely summer afternoon?” I asked her while I put away clean laundry.
“I was at home, workin’ and I got this idea,” she said.
“Does it involve you being naked?”
“It could, potentially…”
“You have my attention,” I said, and leaned against the dresser to listen to her idea.
“I was thinking, I love you,” she said, and I nodded. “And you love me. And we’re back on track, right?”
“I think so,” I nodded. The last couple of weeks felt the way it did when we got together the first time, but better.
“I feel like everything is going really good, and we’re doing so well with communicating,” she said.
“I would agree with that.”
“So what would you think about maybe living together again?” she asked nervously.
“Seriously?” I asked and didn’t even bother trying to fight the smile on my face.
“Yeah.”
“I would say you have great timing because the lease on this place is up at the end of the month, so we have to decide if we want to stay here, if I’m going to move into your place or if we want to start over somewhere completely new to both of us,” I grinned at her.
“You are so much more enthusiastic about this than I expected,” she smiled.
“I told you, Sook, this place is still yours so it doesn’t feel the same when you’re not here,” I moved closer to the bed and stood at the edge of it. “Wherever you want to be, I want to be there too.”
She got up on her knees, and wrapped her arms around me. “I think we really need to start talking about it then.”
“So let’s talk about it,” I rubbed her back. “If we move into a new place we can find one that has one of those enormous tubs.”
“The thing is, I always thought when you and I left this apartment, it would be to move into our own house,” she said.
“I see,” I nodded. “So then do you want to look at houses? Or do you just want to stay here for a while?”
“Whoa, houses?” she said. “Are you sure we’re ready to jump back into that?”
“It’s an option,” I shrugged. “There are plenty around here that are for rent if you’re not sure about buying just yet.”
“How about this,” she said. “You move into my place when the lease comes up, and if we’re still good a year from now, we start looking at houses.”
“That sounds like a good plan,” I nodded.
“So we’re moving back in together,” she stated with a big grin.
“Sounds like it.”
“Which means I get easy access to your penis, correct?”
“You have that now, so I guess easier access is more like it,” I smirked.
“Can we have naked rules?”
“Let’s hear ’em,” I said, and tackled her back onto the bed.
“Rule number one,” she said. “You have to be naked, all the time. Except when we have company.”
“Does this rule go both ways?” I asked her.
“I suppose that’s fair,” she shrugged. “Except when I’m on my period. I’d like to wear yoga pants and a bra.”
“I can concede that,” I nodded. “What’s the next item up for debate?”
“When I want sex, you have to consider it.”
“When do I ever say no if I’m not sick?” I pointed out.
“I’m only putting the consider thing in there so it’s a rule that’s equal for me,” she informed me. “Cause there are times when I’m just too darn sore to do it.”
“Okay,” I nodded, but then rolled on my side to look up at her. “But if I’m getting too rough on you say something.”
“Oh sweetie,” she smiled, and touched my cheek. “You’re too sweet. You’re hardly ever too rough; we’re just both a little too horny at times. And you also have a very large penis.”
“I’m just putting it out there,” I told her.
She chuckled, and leaned down to kiss me. “Once again, you’re too sweet. And you really can’t help being so enthused when we’re having sex.”
“No, but you can tell me to slow down or back off a little. I won’t take it personally.”
“But I wouldn’t want to,” she said.
I figured we were about to start talking in circles so I dropped the issue and said, “Okay, next item.”
“You’re changing the subject,” she giggled. “I’d never let you hurt me, Eric.”
“I know,” I nodded.
“Well then, the next item is that during naked times, you’re allowed to wear clothing if you’re cooking bacon.”
I laughed at that and said, “That was a given, Sookie, but thanks for adding it in there.”
“You’re welcome,” she smiled. “What about you? Any rules?”
“None that I can think of right now, but if I come up with something you’ll be the first to know,” I promised her.
“You really can’t think of a single rule?” she asked. “Not even a blowjob rule?”
“What do I need one of those for? You’re almost always willing even when I don’t ask for it,” I smirked at her.
“I didn’t tell you these rules were just for fun, did I?”
“No, you didn’t, but I still don’t think we need a blowjob rule.”
“Ugh, loosen up a little,” she said. “Just give me at least one insane rule.”
I thought about it for a moment and then said, “Okay, I’ve got one.” She’d never go for it in a million years, but she wanted something insane.
“Lay it on me.”
“You have to text me a dirty picture of yourself every day,” I told her.
She smiled, and said, “That’s not insane.”
“So you’ve changed your mind about that sort of thing huh?”
“You have to delete the old picture every time you get a new one,” she said. “And there will never be any full nudity.”
“That’s fair,” I nodded.
“I might run out of poses pretty quickly though.”
“Oh I don’t think so. I think you can get pretty damn creative if you put some thought into it.”
“We’ll have to see,” she smiled.
“I have faith in you,” I patted her knee.
“I have something to tell you,” she said.
“Okay.”
“I went to the store this morning and ran into Sunset.”
“Lucky you. How’d that go over?” I asked, hoping it wasn’t too awkward for her. I hadn’t talked to Dawn since the day she stormed out of Jason’s house.
“She said a lot of things that don’t matter,” she said, and rolled her eyes.
“What does that mean?”
“It means she’s still pissed.”
“I see. Was she rude to you about it?” I asked, only because none of what happened was Sookie’s fault.
“Only after I told her you and I were back together,” she said.
“I’m sorry, Sookie,” I sighed.
“I would say it’s not your fault, but…” she smiled. “You know, I’m not sure what you saw in her. She looks like a fifteen year old boy from behind.”
“Well when I met her she didn’t seem like a psycho,” I told her. “And she was polite to you before she knew who you were to me, wasn’t she?”
“Yeah, I was just trying to give myself an ego boost. Thanks,” she pouted.
“Sook,” I shifted myself over so I was closer to her and continued, “You’ve got her beat hands down in every fucking category that matters to me. She doesn’t matter, and she never did.”
“I know,” she smiled. “I promise I feel no more jealousy over them. She never got the you that I have, and she never will.”
“You’re damn right,” I said, and kissed her shoulder.
“There’s one more thing,” she said. “Before I told her you and I were together, she was bitching about you, and said she was planning to call you and tell you she was pregnant just to scare you. I don’t think she’ll be making that call now.”
“What a fucking loony tune,” I shook my head. “And I would have asked for a DNA test because I know for a fact that she was seeing someone else when I first met her.”
“Ew!” she said, and hit me with a pillow. “God, you’re not choosy, are you?”
“Hey!” I glared at her.
“You were with her, what? Two weeks? And she was with someone when you met?”
“I met her a month before we started seeing each other, Judgey. When we started seeing each other she’d broken up with the other guy,” I stared at her. “Do you really think… never mind,” I shook my head. This was going nowhere good.
“No, say it,” she said.
“You don’t want me to,” I rolled on my back. “Trust me on this.”
“We need to talk about this,” she insisted. “Remember that communicating thing?”
“Okay,” I turned my head toward her. “I just think it’s bullshit that you have no problem saying the things you say but if I ever talked to you the way you do me sometimes, you’d spend the day in the bathroom crying over what an asshole I am.”
Silence. Total and complete tense silence.
“And now you’re upset with me because I told you what I think. Happy now?” I asked her.
“I’m not…” she started, then sighed. “I’m not upset with you.”
“Oh no? Could have fooled me. You wanted to have this out, so let’s just put it all out on the table, Sookie. Say whatever it is you want to say.”
“First of all, calm down,” she said, and sat up. “You’re right about what you said. If you said those things to me, I’d be upset. At the same time, I feel like I’m more inclined to say them because I wasn’t the one that fucked two other people while we were apart. And I hate saying that to you, because I don’t want to hold it over your head forever. Yes, it’s a double standard, and I’m sorry if I made you feel bad about yourself.”
“You told me it was buried,” I glared at her. “We were standing on your brother’s front lawn and you asked me if we could bury that whole issue, but that was just bullshit, wasn’t it?”
“No, it wasn’t bullshit! I want to bury it!”
“But you can’t!” I yelled back at her. “Because every time something goes wrong in our relationship it’s always going to come back to that.”
“The only reason we’re even talking about it is because I ran into Dawn this morning,” she said. “It’s not always going to come back to that.”
“Yes it will,” I nodded. “Because it obviously still matters to you. I can’t change it, Sookie. I can’t erase the things I did when we were apart, and just like I told you before we even got back together if you can’t get past it, this isn’t going to work. You can’t keep rubbing my face in that and making me feel guilty for this.”
“You know what, screw you,” she said, and got off the bed. “I was teasing you, and maybe I was wrong to do that, and maybe it was a double standard, and I’m sorry for that. Maybe the problem here is that you are the one that stills feel guilty for what you did. I buried it, Eric. I don’t feel jealousy towards those women anymore, even now that I know that you were interested in her for a month before you started dating her. I love you, and I know you love me, but you’re being a dick right now.”
“Yeah, you’re right. I’m a dick, and it’s all my fault,” I said and walked out of the room.
“Eric!” she called after me, then followed. “Talk to me for crying out loud.”
“I can’t talk to you right now. I’m pissed off and I don’t want to say something that’s going to make it worse, so please, just give me some space,” I said without turning back to look at her.
“Alright,” she said, and I heard her voice crack. “You know where I’ll be.”
“Yeah,” I said, and then left the apartment.
Oddly enough the second I stepped outside it felt like all of the oxygen had been sucked from my lungs. I took a bunch of deep breaths and trying to get myself under control. I didn’t want to fight with her, especially over Dawn. If she was teasing me, and I wasn’t fully convinced that was the case, then she needed to knock that shit off. It was too soon to go there like that. We were doing well, but the wounds weren’t completely healed yet and she just ripped off a scab.
She wasn’t wrong either about the guilt. Of course I felt guilty. I never meant to hurt her. I hadn’t done any of the things I’d done while we were separated because I wanted to get back at her. I couldn’t wrap my mind around how she could take it all so seriously one minute and then make jokes about it the next. It didn’t make any fucking sense to me whatsoever, and it drove me up the goddamn wall.
When I got myself in control enough again I went back upstairs. I found her sitting on the bed where she had been before we blew up at each other, and just as I suspected she would be, she was crying and trying to make it look like she wasn’t.
“You’re right, I feel guilty,” I told her. “I hurt you and I don’t like that I hurt you. I don’t feel good about it, and the things you said about me basically having no standards? That isn’t really fair. Who I’m with when we’re not together isn’t any of your business, Sookie. I’ve never once judged you for the guys you dated in the past. I’ve never made fun of them or tried to make you feel bad for your choices. You had a life before me, and I accept that. It’s what made you who you are now. And I love you, but you can’t keep doing that.”
“I guess it just seems different,” she said. “I never judged you who for who you were with before me either, Eric. You know that. These two girls? They were after me. Maybe that shouldn’t make a difference, but to me it does.”
“But if we hadn’t gotten back together then it wouldn’t have mattered, right? Sookie, I was trying to do the right thing. I was trying to move on with my life because I was living under the impression that we were over. Maybe I picked the wrong women to do that with, but it wasn’t like I sat around thinking up ways to hurt you on the chance that we ever tried to work things out. You don’t seem to understand that,” I argued.
“You told me you weren’t moving on,” she said quietly.
“No, I told you that I was still in love with you, and that’s still true.”
“No, you said it before, a lot of times. I accused you of moving on, and you denied it.”
I took a deep breath and let it out slowly before shaking my head. “This whole fight is bullshit.”
“I know you weren’t trying to hurt me,” she said. “But even if we hadn’t gotten back together, I still would have judged you for the women you were with right after me had I ever found out about them. It’s not right, but it’s just what girls do.”
“Yeah, and guys have rebound sex,” I told her. “You might not like that fact, but that’s the way it is.”
“And I’m dealing with that!” she said, raising her voice again. “Why can’t you deal with this?”
“Deal with what? What are even talking about anymore? One minute you tell me you’re over it and you buried it. The next you’re telling me you’re dealing with it. Which is it, Sookie?”
“Ugh, you drive me crazy! Fine, I’ll correct myself. I haven’t buried it. I’m just in the process. Grave is half fucking full. Yes, I judged you, that’s what I’m asking you to deal with, but somehow I think you’re going to tell me that that’s unfair of me.”
“I just want you to tell me the truth,” I moved to stand at the edge of the bed again. “Not talking about stuff like this is the reason why we broke up the first time. If you judge me for what I did, fine, you judged me and I’ll deal with that. I’m just trying to get you to understand my side of things because I don’t want you thinking it was on purpose or with some malicious intent. When you really have buried it, I’ll know that you finally understand it. But this is a process we have to go through together because this pain that you’re carrying around isn’t just yours. I managed to hurt us both by doing what I did, and I have to deal with that, too.”
“How do you even know what I’m feeling?” she asked.
“Because I see it all right here,” I said and touched her face.
“But do you know how it feels here?” she asked, and moved my hand to her heart. “Because I don’t think you do.”
“So then tell me, Sookie,” I sat down. “Don’t keep bottling it up. I can’t help you if you don’t let me.”
“When I think about you with them, smiling and laughing, and fucking,” she said, “I feel like my heart is being ripped out of my chest. It’s more than just jealousy, Eric. It might be stupid, but it feels awful. It’s pain I wouldn’t wish on anyone. And that doesn’t even compare to the pain I felt when we broke up.”
“And I’m sorry I did that to you,” I touched her cheek with my other hand. “If I could take it back, I would. I don’t know how to fix this, Sookie. There’s no changing the past.”
“I know you’re sorry, and whether you want to believe it or not, I do understand that you didn’t do it to hurt me. That doesn’t change the fact that it still hurts. And you have to stop thinking it’s something you can just fix. The only thing that fixes pain like that is time. I’m trying, Eric. I really am. But time only goes so fast.”
“I know,” I sighed. “You should have told me about this sooner. If you would have explained it to me…”
“What? What would you have done?”
“I would have tried to be more understanding about it,” I told her. “I don’t like that you’re still fucked up over this. And I know I can’t fix it, but that doesn’t stop me from wanting to.”
“I was fine. Up until about a half hour ago, I was fine.”
“I don’t think that’s true, or this wouldn’t have happened,” I pointed out. “Pretending like there isn’t a problem doesn’t mean it’s not there, Sookie.”
“But I really was fine, Eric. I felt fine. I was fine when I saw Dawn today.”
“But now you’re not.”
“Because all this crap got dug up again. It’s a wound that’s not fully healed.”
“No, it’s not is it?” I sighed, and pulled her into a hug.
“I can get past it,” she said into my chest. “I will. I really don’t want to rub your face in it, ever. I know you feel guilty about it, and maybe you shouldn’t.”
“Just like you, I can’t help the way I feel, and I think the two go hand in hand,” I said, and rubbed her back. “Maybe it would be better if we waited to move in together again.”
“What?” she asked, and pulled away from me.
“I want to be with you, so please don’t think it’s not like that. I just mean that maybe we should give it some more time.”
“But we had all our rules lined out.”
“We still do. I just don’t want us to rush into something if we’re not really ready for it. I’m not going anywhere, Sookie.”
“I’m ready though,” she said.
“Are you sure?”
“I was ready when I walked in here earlier, and you were too. This was a stupid fight.”
“Yeah, it was,” I agreed. “And I’m still ready.”
“When is your lease up?”
“June thirtieth.”
“Then let’s just wait until then.”
“That’s a good idea,” I nodded. Not that I thought either of us would change our minds, but there was always that chance.
“I’m sorry,” she said, and hugged me again.
“Me too,” I squeezed her back.
“I love you.”
“I love you more,” I said, and poked her side.
“I doubt that,” she said.
“So back to those living together rules for a minute…”
“You have a new rule?”
“Yep,” I said and she lifted her head. “I’m going to need you to not leave your dirty socks on the floor.”
“Like that was ever a problem before?”
“Just putting it out there, since, you know, the rules are for both of us,” I winked at her.
“Oh I see what you did there,” she snorted. “While we’re at it… I better make sure I take my dirty dishes to the sink, and rinse them out.”
“Yes you should,” I nodded. “There should be some sort of punishment for infractions.”
“What do you propose?”
“I don’t know. I haven’t thought that far ahead yet, but you’re the evil one of the two of us so maybe I should let you decide,” I teased.
“Hmmm… this will be tricky.”
“Oh, and I thought of something else. This one I think you’ll like.”
“What is it?”
“Barring some sort of work function that we can’t get out of, since I travel and I know you sometimes have work events that you can’t miss, I want you all to myself every Wednesday night,” I told her. “Because really, we should be spending Hump Day together.”
She threw her head back and laughed. “Such logic you have.”
“I think it’s a good rule,” I laughed with her.
“It is,” she agreed. “And I will adhere to it.”
“Good girl. And the traveling won’t last forever. Dad finally set a retirement date which means I will officially be the big cheese around the company, and that means I get to send someone else to do the leg work for me, unless I want to handle it myself,” I told her. I had been planning to tell her that night anyway.
“When’s he retiring?”
“Effective July fourth. Independence Day,” I snickered.
“Oh my god, congratulations!” she said, and kissed me. “And good for your dad too!”
“Thank you. My parents already booked their first trip that isn’t business related, so they’re very excited about all the free time they’ll have together.”
“They deserve it.”
“Yes, they do. They haven’t taken a vacation together in at least five years, so it’ll be good for them. And I also think the old man wants to see if I’ll sink or swim without him around to bother my first couple of weeks in charge, but I’m excited about it.”
“You’ll do just fine. You know the business inside and out.”
“I do,” I nodded. “That was the point of starting out at the bottom. Any chance I could steal you away from your boss and have you come work for me? You’d look hot in pinstripes outside my office everyday.”
“You know I really would,” she smiled. “But I love my job too much, sorry.”
“Eh, it was worth a shot.”
“Doesn’t mean I can’t visit every now and then.”
“You are welcome anytime you want to drop in,” I smiled at her, my brain immediately going to how many different positions I could get her in on top of my desk.
“I’m sure I am,” she winked.
“Just make sure you’re wearing a skirt,” I said since she was already on to me.
“Duh,” she rolled her eyes.
“So… what are we doing for the rest of the night? Are you crashing here?” I asked her.
“Only if you still want me to.”
“I always want you here,” I said, and kissed her.
“I’m happy to hear it.”
“I also think I owe you some pretty serious make up sex,” I told her.
“Is that so?”
“Absolutely,” I said, and lay back, pulling her on top of me. “Unless you’re not interested.”
“Oh I’m very interested,” she smiled.
“Good. And then we can test out that naked rule of yours to make sure it works for us,” I suggested.
“I like the sound of that too.”
“Then let’s get started,” I grinned, and tugged on her t-shirt.
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