He put his belt around his kilt, quietly.
Thinking.
Then he said, “How dost the voice carry? I couldna hear it.”
I said, “Down wires. Here look.” I went to the window and pointed. “See there, it’s the telephone wires, and the electricity wires. That makes it so we have these lights.”
He nodded. “Aye, it makes more sense now.”
He pulled me into a hug and kissed me deeply.
“Are you alright that we’re not going to the diner, we’re going to eat here?”
“Aye, I am goin’ tae go out and see tae the guard. I hae spent too much time wanderin’ in yer gardens. I fear I was lost, I need tae understand yer protection and the lay of the land. Twill be good tae stay here.”
“We can go to the diner another day. Today I’ll make my new husband breakfast.” I kissed him and stepped away. “I need to finish dressing, I’ll bring out some coffee once I’ve got a pot made.”
“Dost ye hae tae dress? Ye could wait here in bed and I will come back as soon as I speak tae the guard and then I can…?”
“Torin, we need food!”
“Aye, but wife, ye are enticin’ me, I am questionin’ whether I ought tae go downstairs at all.”
“Well go on downstairs so I can stop enticing you, I’m famished. This has been too much sex, Torin, you’ll have to pace yourself. You can’t have all the sex on the first night, we’ll grow tired of it!”
“Och nae, yer mood has turned again, ye promise me that we will come back here and ye will let me visit yer gardens again andye will be back tae the sweet mood that loves yer Torin and wants him on ye?”
I looked at him, being serious. “I absolutely promise, Torin, if I am fed, I will meet you back here, and I will invite you with sweetness and desire back to my gardens.”
“Good, tis the only way I can walk away from ye.”
He kissed me again and left for the stairs.
A few minuteslater I was putting on a bit of makeup when I heard Jen’s voice, “Girlfriend! What are you doing?”
I closed the tube of mascara and went out to the stairs.
She was standing in my foyer, carrying grocery bags and gestured out the door. “Torin is on the porch like he owns the place, he said, ‘Alexandria is inside,’ what did you do?”
I sank onto the middle stair.
“We did all the things, my knees are weak, I can barely walk.”
Her eyes went wide.
“This is… you had sex with the hot Scotsman? On your birthday?”
I nodded.
“Damn this is an even better story than I thought, you took a lover since I saw you last.”
“I took ahusbandsince you saw me last.”
She said, “I am going to drop these eggs! Don’t be ridiculous, Lexi, get up, come with me to the kitchen.” She turned on her heel and went into the kitchen and I followed, sheepishly.
She put the bags on the counter and barked orders. “Make the coffee.”
Dude was sitting regally on the counter beside the coffeemaker, his tail curled around his feet. “You are not supposed to be up here, you know this.”
