I wrinkled my nose. “Fine, then I’ll try, too.”
He kissed me. “I love you.”
“I love you, too, but we need to set some ground rules going forward.”
“What kind of rules?”
“The kind that don’t involve you getting up before me without telling me what the fuck you’re doing, particularly if that something is dangerous,” I hissed.
“Right.”
“Among others.”
He cocked his head. “What others?”
“The ones I’ll make up as we go along.”
He laughed. “Okay, Razzle, we’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
“There might be more than one bridge.”
“We’ll cross those, too.” He wrapped his arms around me. “For what it’s worth, I missed you today.”
“Well, imagine what that would feel like wondering if I was going to live or not.”
“Point taken, Raquel. I heard you the first hundred times you mentioned it.”
“Don’t get stabby with me, Orion. This is on you.”
“Baby, I’ve apolog—”
“You haven’t actually,” I pointed out.
“I have.”
“You haven’t.”
“Okay.” He sighed, dropping his forehead to mine. “I’m sorry, baby. I will do my best in the future not to worry you.”
“You’ll do your best in the future to tell me everything that’s going on, so I don’t worry.”
“Nope, that’s not even on the table.”
I gripped his cut. “Shit.”
He chuckled. “You’re gettin’ it.”
“I can’t be left completely in the dark, Ori. I’ll go mad.”
“I don’t plan to leave you completely in the dark, baby. I promise.”
I nodded, dropping my face into his chest as he wrapped his arms around me again. “I’m going to hold you to that.”
He gave me a squeeze. “Wouldn’t expect anything less.”
I met his eyes. “Now, can we go back upstairs so you can finish what we started.”
He nodded, kissing me gently, then leading me back up to our bedroom and smacking my ass as we walked inside.
