The pain mixed with pleasure has me exploding and screaming his name as I push my hips back hard to take him even deeper, wanting every inch of him to feel how he’s ruined me. With one last hard stroke, he jerks and thickens inside of me and roars, “MINE!” as he comes.
My head is pressed to the headboard as I struggle to force air past my raw throat but he pulls it back by my hair until I’m forced to meet his eyes. What I see there steals the little bit of air I managed to sip down and he whispers it again but this time with heart, “Mine.”
TATE
Ishut the taps off when the bubbles in the deep soaker tub threaten to overflow onto my bathroom floor. I scan the room and nod at the lit candles and steaming cup of tea sitting on the small table next to the tub. Everything is perfect, all it needs now is Savy to come and enjoy it.
She was off for most of the week. Finals are hard on all of us but now that they’re over, I wanted to do something special for her. It’s important to me to keep showing her that I meant what I said about us being the real deal. I see what she’s building with Jude and now Beck and I want that with her too. I’ve been racking my brain on what I could do for her to make her see that I’m trying and I came up with the perfect gift. I ordered her a complete set of all her favorite classic books that she lost in the fire and I can’t wait for them to get here. But I wanted to do something more intimate too so a bubble bath was all I could come up with.
I head out of my room and cross over to hers. The door is open and I stand and watch her back as she types away on her laptop for a few minutes at her desk before clearing my throat. She looks over her shoulder and hits me with the sweetest smile.
“Hey, what’s up?”
My feet carry me across the room and I turn her chair so she faces me and cup her face in my hands.
“How are you feeling? You seemed a little off this last week.”
A pink blush stains her cheeks as her eyes slide away from mine and she bites her lip. “Yeah, kind of comes with being a female. Sorry.”
I brush her cheekbone with my thumb and feel like an idiot. I never even thought about her having her period. Something for me to remember in the future. I don’t know a lot about what women go through during that week having no sisters but I think I heard that chocolate is a necessity so I’ll remember to stock some of the good stuff next month for her.
“Are you…over, uh, done…”
She laughs softly and peeks up at me. “Yup, coast is clear.”
“Cool, so do you have some free time right now? I…um, I wanted to…I made you…fuck, why is this so hard?”
Savy pushes to her feet with a small smile and takes my hand. “I’m free right now. What do you want to do?”
I tug her by the hand and pull her out of her room into mine, shut the door, and steer her into my bathroom. Her brows pop up in surprise as she takes in the full bath with all the frothy bubbles and the candles.
“You…you made me a bath?”
I shrug one shoulder. “Well, I just thought, you work two jobs and with finals and everything, um, I have this big tub so I thought you might like to relax a bit.”
Savy moves into me, rises up onto her toes, and kisses me softly. Her eyes are soft and full of something that makes my chest squeeze tight.
“Tate, this is the nicest thing anyone’s ever done for me. Thank you.”
I breathe out my relief and drop my forehead onto hers. “Good, great, I, I just wanted to show you, I mean…” I shake my head at how I’ve turned into a fumbling teenaged boy and step back toward the door. “I just wanted to do something nice for you. Enjoy your bath, baby girl.”
I barely make it halfway across my room when Savy calls out to me. I turn and rush back to see what she needs and find her trailing her fingers through the bubbles.
Her voice is low and hesitant when she asks, “You…you could…stay?”
Everything inside of me shoots off like a firework. I cock my head to the side and try not to grin.
“Yeah? You want me to stay?”
She looks over her shoulder at me and arches a brow. “Well, it is a really big tub and I’m not the best swimmer so…for safety's sake?”
I can’t fight my grin any longer at her sweet teasing so I reach behind my head and drag my shirt up and over tossing it to the floor.
“For safety's sake.”
Her cheeks turn that pretty pink as she takes in my bare chest but she twirls her finger. “You have to turn around while I get in first, please.”
I nod seriously and turn my back for her. I think it’s fucking adorable that she’s self-conscious about me seeing her get undressed when we’re about to be naked together in a tub. I feel like I’ve just scored the winning touchdown at the national championship. I just wanted to do something nice for her so this is a huge fucking win for me, for us.
