I placed my hand on the bridge of my nose. “Baby, I’m really trying to figure out what changed from the time I served you some dick until now?”
She exhaled sharply. “I’m sorry, just tension from work. Let me take a bath, and I will cook us dinner, then we can watch a movie and relax.”
“Yeah, ok movie,” I mumbled.
She disappeared into the back, leaving me standing there. When I heard the water running, I followed her. I stood in the bedroom and watched her undress and walk into the bathroom. Her cocoa skin was fucking perfection. She is a nigga’s heartbeat besides my kids. She had a nigga in a chokehold, and without her, I couldn’t breathe.
I gave her a few minutes before walking into the bathroom. Her head rested on the back of the tub while the bubbles barely covered her breasts. The lights were off, and the candlelight kissed her skin. I eased closer and got down on my knees. I undid my cufflink and rolled up my sleeve. Coffee’s head turned toward me as her eyes slowly opened. Then she did the one thing I loved the most. She fucking smiled, and I melted inside. Myhand eased into the water, softly stroking her leg until it reached her center.
“Pussy so fucking soft,” I mumbled. “A nigga wants to make you feel good. I know you’ve been working hard, Coffee, I—”
She placed her finger to my lips. “Chase, I wanted us to have a good holiday this year. Baby I—”
My finger slid inside her, causing her head to fall back.“God!”she whined.
Stroke, circle, stroke.
The way my fingers played with her pussy, even the best gaming nigga couldn’t hang. “Whatever it is, Coffee, we can get through it. You’re so fucking beautiful, baby.”
Stroke, circle, stroke.
This should have been the moment to tell her we needed to move, but it was clear there was tension, and I needed to relieve it for her. She was my priority, and whatever it took to make her comfortable, so be it. She gripped my wrist as her body started moving along with my hand. “Ooo right there,” she moaned.
Stroke, circle, stroke.
I leaned forward and kissed her as my fingers moved into action. The way she kicked and shifted, the water splashed against the tub's side. “Anything for you,” I told her.
“Chase, I’m about to cum!”
My fingers darted faster, and so did her hips. I sucked and licked her fucking neck like a candy cane. Coffee’s body bucked, her legs shook, and just like that, she came. She panted hard as she licked her lips.
I pulled my hand from the water as I stood. “It’s just you and me, no kids, no interruptions. I want Nemo’s ass tonight,” I told her.
She lifted as she gazed at me. “Chase, we have things we need to talk about, and the last thing we need is Nemo and Menace.”
I shrugged. “Talk then,” I said as I sat on the toilet next to her.
Whatever the conversation was about, I prayed like hell it didn’t ruin the weekend.
COFFEE
The way Chase’s eyes looked at me when I told him we needed to talk showed he wasn’t in the mood for any bullshit. Deep down, I knew he had been trying to make up for how he handled Sienna. Honestly, I didn’t care much about her; it was more about Kira growing up around new faces. It was about us building a family with someone else’s child, not our own. CJ was my heart. I loved him beyond words, but the truth was, what Chase wanted over a year ago, I didn’t. Now, I was starting to question everything.
As he waited for me to say something, I couldn’t. I knew I should hold back my feelings and not turn what was supposed to be a special weekend filled with love and joy into an argument. So, I stayed silent. I could feel his anger, his hurt, and I knew he had been chasing my feelings, leaving his behind. Before I could speak, he shot up from the toilet and glanced down at me. “I’m going for a fucking walk,” he hissed.
I lifted. “But it’s snowing like crazy, Chase. It’s cold out.”
He had gone to walk out of the bathroom, but stopped and looked at me. “Good, maybe then that shit will cool me off,” he said before walking out.
This is what I didn’t want; him and me to be at odds. I couldn’t lose the man I love with every beat of my heart over miscommunication. “Shit!” I exclaimed.
I didn’t want him to think that what he felt didn’t matter, so instead of focusing on myself, I decided to make tonight all about him. What I had to say was important, but I knew my husband and his love language. If we were going to be in forthe night, then we’d do what we did best: turn this perfectly elegant condo upside down just the way he liked. Dark, sensual, dangerous, and nasty. I hurriedly washed up and got out of the tub.
I didn’t know how long he would be gone, so I moved around the place quickly. I rushed toward the closet, grabbing a few things Chase and I had put away. Then, I hurried to the kitchen to start dinner. I jumped from that to lighting a few candles, then putting on some music. I paused when I stood in front of the full-length mirror. I stared at my naked body as a warm feeling washed over me. I smiled brightly. Maybe what I thought would be a burden was actually a blessing. All the fears I had about it before still lingered a bit, but I knew it would be worth it to see the man who would do whatever, no matter what, for his family, happily.
So not only were we planning to turn Christmas Eve into a freak session, but by Christmas Day, we would be starting bigger and better things. This was going to be a Carter’s special Christmas.
CHASE
