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We share a knowing smile and get looped into the afternoon planning once again.
The five of us get to go into the adoption room together, and while a bunch of cats run up to us, I’ve got my eyes on a cat that’s been looking over at me but keeping its distance. It’s almost like she’s playing peekaboo from behind her cat tower. I know she’s the one.
While everyone plays with the rambunctious cats vying for their attention, I slowly make my way to a rattan seat next to my quiet cat.
After a while of just observing everyone in our private space of cats and friendship, the quiet cat bats at the hem of my skirt and gingerly jumps onto my lap as if she’s chosen me too.
Too soon, our time is up for the next batch of people. Adriel puts his hands up to stop me from getting up and buys me a little more time by talking to the volunteers and pointing towards us as if he already knows that this cat is the one.
They usher us into the next room of paperwork and details, then ask for her name.
Inspired by Adriel, I say, “Corazon. Let’s call her Cora for short.”
“That’s perfect,” he says.
Chapter Thirteen
Adriel
After wandering around for hours and eating all sorts of cat-shaped foods, my favorite being the siopao buns stuffed with barbecue pork and embellished with cat ears, we go back home covered in Cora’s cat hair.
Bumping into our friends was a pleasant surprise and being on an impromptu double-date for part of the afternoon was more fun than I expected. It’s something I would never have planned to do, but I liked it none-the-less.
Viv and Jackson have been dating since last Halloween, and after spending time with them together, I realize that it’s nice to see your friends in love. A single dad like me, he has had his fair share of trials with Lola’s mom but rose to the occasion by being an amazing girl dad.
He’s showed up for me in ways I couldn’t even fathom about asking for, and I’m thankful every day for my friendship with my guys in town. Since I’m the only true introverted one of the bunch, it’s what I can only imagine having a close relationship with my brothers would look like.
Who knows who I’d be without them.
In the same vein, that’s what it’s feeling like with Jules and me. Everything she does feels like a welcome addition to my life.
Being with Jules replenishes me as much as it energizes me, and all the effort I put into this date feels like it was worth it.
I’ll never forget the look on her eyes when she slid off her cat eye mask. It was like Christmas morning as a toy-hungry child but seeing the joy on her face was better than any toy I could have unwrapped.
“Sorry I didn’t take you to a fancier dinner for our first date,” I mumble on our way home, realizing we just made a meal of random snacks at the Cat Con.
“Please don’t be. I had the best time, and I don’t think I would have had a tail shaped churro otherwise. Besides, I’m so full, I couldn’t eat out after this, even if you had a reservation set for an amazing restaurant.”
She squeezes my hand on the drive and I know she’s not playing down her joy.
“How do you feel about coffee at my place before we go back?”
With that reminder of a prelude to more, I can barely stop myself from speeding all the way to town.
When we get up to her apartment, Jules moves towards me faster than I expected.
Like last time, the connection is turned on as fast as a light switch, and it’s instantly hot. There’s no simmer. No bubbles before the boil. We were holding hands one moment, and now our hands are all over each other the next.
She runs hers over the front of my jeans and I can’t kiss her deeply enough. I can’t get satiated. I want so much more. I want to devour her. The instant attraction we had from before feels more grounded this time. Like we’ve already built something from the all-out devastatingly sexy intimacy we had in the library.
Still kissing, I reach between us and pull her soaked panties to the side and rub her heat.
“Jules. You’re soaking wet for me.”
“It’s all for you, Papi.”
The way she moans turns me on so much. Panting and calling me Papi absolutely undoes me. That earns two fingers in her pussy. I feel her tighten around two, and I edge in a third.
