“To tell me you’re my boyfriend?”I asked gleefully.
An insanely beautiful smile hit his lips.“Think we’re past that, seein’ as you’re my woman, that makes me your man.”
I was so at one with this added elevation to our relationship status, I did the kissing him all over his face thing again.
He started chuckling, wrapping his arms around me as he did it, and then he said, “Your aim is shit.”
I took his mouth.
He gave it to me and then took mine.
I oh-so gave it to him.
When he broke, he whispered, “You’re leaking all over my stomach.”
I would have bounced off to take care of that chore, but his arms were still around me.
He did an epic ab crunch, and then, with my arms and legs around him, he walked me to the bathroom.
Tonks danced in the door, gave an ecstaticroo-roo!(or at least I read it as ecstatic), then she danced out.
“I think Tonks senses I’m happy,” I told Hutch as he set my ass on the counter of the vanity.
“Probably,” he said through a smile and turned on the tap.
He hiked his jeans up, did a couple of buttons to keep them there (how they hadn’t already fallen off his slim hips was a mystery) and found a washcloth.
He saw to me, he saw to his belly, then we did the him-carrying-me, me-wrapped-around-him thing back to bed.
But this time, he set me in it, then took off his jeans before he joined me.
And by joining me, I meant putting me under the covers and stretching his long body on top of mine.
He smoothed the hair from my face then took that face in.
“You were nervous,” he noted.
“Yeah,” I pointed out the obvious.
“Fucked it,” he said.“Shouldn’t have let you get to that place.”
“Hutch—”
“I’ve known for weeks too, May,” he admitted.
I was warm, comfy, happy, with my man on me in his bed.
But that made me more of all three.
Atonmore.
“I knew when I agreed to that fucked-up deal,” he went on.
I felt my lips turn down.“It wasn’t fucked up.”
“Babe, I’ve been torturing myself for weeks that, if I told you where my heart was taking me, you’d get shot of my ass.”
“Well, I’ve been doing the same, Hutch.Though, because ofmoi, we’ve both been getting laid doing it.”
