Mal thought about that for a moment, her fingers stroking Dandy’s head.
“I don’t want to intrude.”
“You wouldn’t be. Promise.”
“I’ll think about it.” She still had a few days to decide.
“Good.”
My phone vibrated with a new message and I remembered that I still didn’t have hers.
“Hey, what’s your number?” I asked and she gave it to me. I sent her the kissy face winking emoji and she laughed when she saw it.
“There. Now we can liaise directly.”
Mal’s eyebrows went up. “Liaise?”
“You know. Schedule our…liaisons. It sounds fancier than hookups.” I didn’t want to call them hookups. That was such a casual and bland term. Whatever we were doing was different. At least it was to me.
“Liaisons,” she repeated, drawing the word out. “I guess we can call them that.”
Ugh, now I was being a dork in front of her and she was going to stop wanting to have sex with me.
“Or hookups. It’s fine.”
I shifted and thought about telling her I had to use the bathroom to escape.
“Hey,” she said, reaching out and touching me for the first time since she walked in the door. “We can call them liaisons. And I’m thinking that if you’re not doing anything tonight, you might want to have one?”
I didn’t have anything going on, but even if I did, I would have canceled on my own funeral to liaise with her tonight.
“Yeah, that sounds like a plan,” I said, trying not to vibrate out of my own skin with excitement. That gave me enough time to do an everything shower and pick out some sexy underwear for her. I wanted to up my game from last time when she’d pulled the vibrator T-shirt off me.
“Perfect,” she said. “Then it’s a liaison.”
I couldn’t help but laugh. “You’re going to keep saying that, aren’t you?”
“Yeah. It’s cute. You’re cute.” Oh shit, if she wasn’t careful, I was going to swoon.
“Stop it,” I said, hitting her arm and wishing I could hide my cheeks without being obvious about it.
“Mmmm, I don’t think I will,” she said, leaning forward and stopping when she was just close enough to almost kiss. Dandy woke up and jumped off the couch and I felt my body leaning toward her.
“Rude,” I whispered.
“You like it,” she said just before our lips met. She tasted like something sweet, but the best part was the way she pushed me back and grabbed the back of my neck and kissed me senseless. Just absolutely wrecked me.
“God, I can’t believe I waited so long to talk to you,” she said in between deep, slow licks of my mouth.
“Why did you?” I asked and then realized that I should have just shut up so she would have kept kissing me.
She leaned back just a little. “Because I’ve never had a hookup, excuse me, a liaison, like you before.” She seemed both surprised and reluctant to admit it.
“Me neither. I mean, this was my first one, but talk about starting off on the right foot.”
She laughed a little and her breath caressed my skin.
“If I don’t leave now, I’m going to end up stripping you right here, right now.”
