Still, Hutch calling me May was the prettiest thing I’d ever heard, even prettier than his songs.
“I need to get rid of this condom,” he said.
I rolled off him and watched his fine ass as he sauntered to my bathroom.
“Are you spending the night?”I called in that direction.
“Is that an invite?”he called back.
“Yeah.”
“Then yeah.”
I adjusted so I was under the covers, and once there, I pulled them up to my chin and grinned like a loon.
Hutch returned and got under them with me about half a second before Tonks jumped on the bed.
“Not yet, girl,” Hutch told her.“We’re not done.”
Tonks yodeled toward the ceiling and jumped off.
“You wear me out,” I told Hutch.
He yanked me under him (see what I mean about dominant?).
“Not yet.But I will,” he returned.
And then he kissed me.
After that, he wore me out.
We took Tuesday off,which was probably good.
Grounding.
Time apart and away from the intensity.
Wednesday afternoon,Hutch showed for Tonks’s training appointment with a truck bed full of firewood.
There was some framing in the car port against the outside cabin wall where it was meant to be stacked so it could keep dry.Thus, Tonks and I left the workshop so I could help him unload (which, at Hutch’s decree, was me in the truck bed handing it to him log by log so he could stack, because, like loading the trunk of a car, apparently, only a man knew the proper way to stack firewood) and Tonks could supervise.
After that, there was some mild bickering as to who would pay for the wood, which in the end, I allowed us to split it because he said, “Babe, I’ll be here and enjoying it, so just give it up and go half.”
I gave it up, but I right then and there demanded his Venmo in order to reimburse him, and he watched me do this after sighing heavily.
They did their training, and I went out the last fifteen minutes so Tonks and I could work together.
I didn’t know, and I didn’t ask Hutch (because I didn’t want him to disagree with me), but she seemed to be taking to “heel” even easier than “stay,” and therefore I thought this meant she was highly intelligent and learning, day to day, how to listen better and jive with the vibe.
He then went to work on installing a new thermostat, which he’d phoned Mrs.Matthews to tell her he was putting in, and she’d told him to send her the receipt so she could reimburse his expenditure.She’d also told him she was sending a landscaping team out the next day to rake the pine needles up around the property.
“Seems Mrs.Matthews has the same idea your friend had about keeping your property busy,” Hutch mused after he gave me this info.
He was probably right.
I just knew that woman was the bomb.
The thermostat was a fancy one I could control on my phone, and within fifteen minutes of it being installed, I could feel the cabin warming up.
