“Gorgeous, I think you just like to bust my balls.”
“I do,” she laughs.
“Damn,” I mutter, my smile so wide that it’s a wonder my face isn’t causing me pain.
“If it makes you feel better, I like sucking on them, too.”
“Fuck,” I hiss, my erection entering the painful zone. “You’re an evil woman.” I’m rewarded with her happy giggle. It makes me proud that I’ve seen her through being melancholy. I want my woman to always be happy.
“Are you still coming down here at the weekend?” she questions.
My heart beats double time. It sounds like she’s looking forward to seeing me. “Definitely.”
“Good,” she murmurs with a yawn.
“Baby, you need to go. To sleep. You can call me when you’re up and about.”
“I hate it, but you’re right. I want it known, though, that I’m only doing it because I’m afraid I’m going to fall asleep on you.”
“I wouldn’t mind, but you need rest, and I need to work.”
“Okay, I’ll talk to you later, Candy-boy.”
“Sweet dreams, gorgeous.”
I lay still, waiting for her to disconnect. When she doesn’t, I wonder if she’s already fallen asleep. I’m about to ask when I hear her.
“Well?”
“Well, what?”
“Aren’t you going to hang up?” she prompts. I close my eyes and just soak in the joy that talking to my woman gives me.
“I’m not strong enough to. I never want to let you go. That means you will have to do it.”
“Goodnight, Caleb. Sweet dreams,” she purrs into my ear.
“I’m not going to sleep, I’m working, so that’s my line to you.”
She yawns again. “Whatever, but I’m going to go to sleep hugging my phone.”
“Soon I’ll be there, and you will hug me,” I remind her, needing to hold on to that. I miss her.
“Caleb?”
“Yeah, sweetheart?”
“You make me want to believe in happily ever after. Don’t turn into a frog, okay?”
I laugh. “I’ll do my best.” I’m a little disappointed when she doesn’t respond and instead, I hear the call disconnect.
The weekend can’t come soon enough …
17
CANDY-BOY THE CHIN WONDER
IZZY
