She hummed to herself for a moment. “Really? Is that actually true or just a nice thing to say?”
I held her tight, as tight as I could without hurting her. “There are times when it’s true for me. If you’d decided that you didn’t want me inside you, I would’ve been content to give you what you needed and be done.”
“I saw the way you were grinding on the mattress. You would’ve come in your boxers at some point.”
“That’s probably true,” I admitted. I ran my hand over her hair, down her back. “Close your eyes, storm cloud. It’s been a long damn day and I’m not nearly done with you yet.”
A few minutes passed while we figured out how to keep our bodies as close as possible while also finding comfortable positions that didn’t leave either of us with numb limbs or neck cricks. Once we got there, we started to drift off. Sunny’s breathing evened out. My head succumbed to the mental softness that followed two massive orgasms. Everything was great.
And then—
“What was that?” She lifted her head from my chest, glanced around. “Am I hearing things? Did something snap inside my head?”
I stared at the ceiling, not sure I could hear anything over the thump of my heart. But then a muffled buzz sounded from somewhere in this shoebox room, and I said, “It’s my phone.”
She shuffled away from me and to the other side of the bed, nestling into her pillow. “Do you need to get it?”
I didn’t want to leave this bed. Not for anything. But the things I wanted had a way of clashing with my reality. Even now, in the middle of the night with my body still buzzing from the feel of her in my arms, I didn’t know how to turn off the incessant toe-tapping of my responsibilities.
“Let me check,” I said. “It will just take a minute.”
Sunny pushed to her feet and snagged my shirt off the floor, saying, “Don’t worry about it. I need to use the bathroom anyway.”
I almost swallowed my tongue as I watched her shrug into my shirt. I’d never found anything sexy or even interesting about a woman wearing my clothes before but I stared after Sunny for a solid minute.
Accepting that I couldn’t do anything about this confusing new kink until she returned, I dug my phone out from under a pile of pillows and clothes. The notification was an alert from one of the motion-activated security cameras at the oyster company. When I tapped on the video, I barked out a laugh at what I saw.
“We’re back to inappropriate laughing?” Sunny called from somewhere down the hall.
“Get in here,” I replied. “You need to see this.”
A few minutes later, Sunny returned with a glass of water and her hair braided over one shoulder. She curled up beside me, her chin on my shoulder and her hands everywhere as I reloaded the video.
“You can tell me I was right at any time,” I said.
“One, two, three, four. Hmm.” She tipped her head to the side. “Five. Six? Six. Okay.”
“Right, that’ssixdeer on the Naked Provisions patio,” I said. “Do you see them eating your flowers? And knocking over your pots? Look, look—that one kicked over a chair.”
She pointed at the screen. “Why are they running away?”
“Fuck if I know,” I said. “The point, storm cloud, is that you now have proof that wild creatures living around the cove can and will ransack your patio.” I locked the phone and set it on the bedside table. “Not me. Not anyone else. Just wildlife. Like I said.”
“This time,” she replied. “You can’t prove anything about the time before.”
“Yeah, well.” I grabbed her around the waist and rolled with her across the mattress. “Let’s see what I can prove with my cock in your mouth.”
* * *
“What are you doing today?”Sunny asked as she twined her fingers around mine.
I squinted at the narrow beam of sunlight crossing her room. “I’m pretty flexible though I need to check in at the oyster company at some point.”
“Then you have time to take the dogs on that walk with me? Maybe grab some breakfast?”
“Breakfast is good,” I said, kissing my way across her collarbone. “But I want to take you out some night. Whenever you’re free.”
She laughed. “What would that involve?”
