He turns the corners of his smile down and playfully frowns for me.
I giggle."If I can, you can."
"Are you challenging my manhood?"I laughed as he puffed out his chest.His eyes twinkling at me.
"No.If I were challenging that, I would be counting how many I could give you."I tilt my head, look up at nothing and give him a quirky smirk."Honeymoon challenge?"
He plopped down on the couch next to me and snuggled."If you promise that challenge, I'll agree to this one."
I kissed his cheek."Deal."
"But let's be clear on the what and the how.What exactly does it entail, and how exactly does the superstition benefit us if we manage?"
"It's simple.Not having sex for 24 hours before the ceremony brings good luck on the marriage, plus it ensures the honeymoon sex will be mind-blowing."
He laughs, "But the sex is already mind-blowing.How is that beneficial?"
I crawled in his lap and straddled him, hugged his face between my arms, and put my nose on his."I'm just saying...."
"What are you just saying?"He chuckled."That our sex hasn't been mind-blowing?Because I for one thought it has been."He smirks a frown.
"You know it has been mind-blowing!"
"Then ....why would we deny ourselves for 24 hours to have what we already have?"
"For good luck?"I laugh."Sounds like a weak reason, doesn't it?"
"Yeah, but if it's important to you, and you really do want to abstain, then...."He picked me up, rolled me over, dropped me down on the couch, and pounced on me, then proceeded to prove our sex was mind-blowing.Laying side by side, satisfied and completely drained from the exertion, he said to the ceiling."Was that mind-blowing enough for you?"
"Fuck yeah!Who needs good luck anyway when you have good Karma?"
"That's my good girl!"He chuckled.
But it turned out there was no time to squeeze in a hookup anyway.Getting the whole Alabama crew ready to board Bart's jet proved to be more of a challenge than we anticipated.Gaby and Steve's list of everyone they wanted to invite kept growing until we had a plane full of people.
Back to the present.
It's actually been close to 24 hours now.
I take a deep breath, then reach for his hands.Taking both in mine, I shudder when that special spark I have come to expect shoots me.Stroking him with my thumbs, I bat my eyelashes at him, flirting hard with my hero.
He gives me his sexy half-smile, and I hear his hum.
I look down at his hands and stare at them.This hand.I bring it to my lips and kiss it.This is the hand that slid between the elevator doors.He turns it on me and cups my chin.My eyes lift, and his look....I match his intensity with my own, and his smirk tells me he wonders, who will be fucking who first?
I smile and say what I'm feeling inside.As soon as I hear the words, I know they were perfect."Maximus Aurelius Moore, I, Siri Wright, am lost without you."I pucker my lips and kiss his palm.
* * *
Aurei
* * *
I wasn't expecting that.My smile falls away as I feel every emotion run through me that Siri sang, and I realize that....
She was the one drowning.
She was the one bleeding.
