Mac collapsed forward against the tile, feeling as weak as a newborn foal.Her legs shook from trying to support herself, but she wasn’t about to collapse into a heap on the shower floor.
“Much longer shower than I planned,” Mac murmured half asleep.Barry gathered her into her arms and peppered soft kisses along her shoulder and neck.
“Worth it though.”
“It was, but now I need to find the energy to finish cleaning myself, then dry off and still get dressed.”Not to mention turning off the water before the lukewarm temp turned cold.The water tank wasn’t very large and turned cold quickly.
“Not to mention walk back to the bar and have something to eat.”
“Ugh,” Mac groaned.It sounded like too much energy and effort.
“We can always eat in,” Barry suggested.
That did sound preferable.Mac did a mental list of what she had in her fridge.“I like that better.”She even had a few beer bottles to enjoy at dinner.
“Alright, go get dressed while I find us something to eat.”Barry set her upright, left the shower stall, and grabbed a towel from her rack.
Mac picked up the discarded sponge on the ground and quickly finished washing her front and between her legs before the water turned frigid.So much for her plan to shave.It would have to wait until tomorrow.“You don’t have to do that.I can make us something.”She turned off the water and shook out her arms and legs before leaving the stall.She avoided his pile of clothes and grabbed another towel from the linen closet on the other side of the sink.
The air was cool with the air conditioning running and the bathroom door open to let all the steam out.It felt good after all the steam they had been creating not long ago.
“Don’t trust me rummaging through your fridge?”Barry asked as he toweled off.Mac kept her gaze adverted so she didn’t become distracted by his nakedness.The man seemed very comfortable in the nude.Or he was just trying to fluster her.
If that was the case, he was succeeding.The man had a gorgeous body she had yet to fully explore.
“It’s not that.It’s my house and you are my guest.Guests don’t cook.”
“I’d prefer a different term, but we can work on that.”
Chapter 11
Mac bit her lip before she asked what term he was referring to.Temporary.This was all temporary, she chanted in her head like a mantra.“It’s my house.I’ll cook.”Mac left the bathroom and went to her room as she towel-dried her hair.
She put on a pair of panties and slipped on some grey pajama shorts and a tank top, going sans bra.
She hated them.They dug into her shoulders.She had under-boob sweat.She always enjoyed taking them off at the end of the day and letting the girls relax.
Mac bent over and scrubbed out her hair one more time before tossing her head back and finger combing through it.She set the towel on the bar in the bathroom and headed into the kitchen.She wasn’t surprised to see Barry was already there looking through her fridge.
His hair was wet and tousled, and his shirt had dark wet spots as if he hadn’t completely dried before putting his clothes back on.
“I told you I would make something.”
“I don’t mind helping.”
“Fine.”She didn’t mind help.“Do you have any allergies or anything you don’t like to eat?”
“No, I’m pretty easy.”He grinned at his double innuendo before his gaze lowered to her nipples jutting through her shirt.Let him look.Mac wasn’t going to apologize for not wearing a bra.
“There’s a brown wrapper with fish I got from the market yesterday in there.We can have that and some peas and rice.”
Barry shook his head as if he had been in a fog.“I like it.”Barry grabbed the fish from the fridge while Mac got the other supplies.She pulled out the cutting board while Barry opened the package of fish.“This thing is whole,” he said, sounding shocked.
“Yeah.”Hadn’t he ever seen a whole fish before?
“Doesn’t the market cut it into fillets for you?”
“No,” Mac chuckled.Such a city boy.“The market here is different.”Barry wasn’t in Kansas anymore.No one here was going to cut up his meat for him.You had to work for some of your meals here.
