His head lolled in my direction, with a wide grin across his face. I was sad to see the lip gloss was gone from eating, especially when I hadn’t even gotten a chance to taste it, but the eyeliner was still there, perfectly casting a slight shadow under his eye.
“I did. Thank you.”
I couldn’t help but wonder why he always looked so conscious whenever I did something or asked him something like that. But I didn’t want to draw attention to it and ruin the mood, so I let it go.
For now.
We continued on in a comfortable silence, and I let him control the music, syncing his streaming service to the radio so he could listen to his music. Again, the way his eyes went wide when I made the suggestion, made me want to go on a rampage and hunt down every man he’d ever dated before me.
I just had to remind myself there would be no one after me. I’d make sure of it.
The movie theater lobby was mostly empty when we got there, since it was early afternoon during the middle of the week, but that was fine. It just meant that we would get the theater to ourselves. I bought tickets for a rom-com I knew he would like, even though I wasn’t sure if he’d seen it. But that was okay. Hopefully, we wouldn’t be watching much of the movie anyway.
“Popcorn?” I asked as we went through the gate, getting our tickets stamped.
“Hmm? Oh, yeah. Though, I’m not sure if I can eat much more.” Aiden patted his belly and gave a laugh.
I gave him a look in return. “Popcorn is a movie date staple, little bird.”
He rolled his eyes and wandered off to look at the rest of the goodies while I got the popcorn. While the girl behind the counter was filling up our bucket, I went up to him and put my arm around his shoulder.
“Did you want to get something else, baby?” I whispered in his ear.
When he shook his head, I leaned back and looked at him. His face had lost the carefree look and I didn’t like it. It alsodidn’t escape my notice the way his eyes kept sliding to the gummy worms.
Not saying a word, I reached in front of him, grabbed a package, and took them to the counter.
“Daddy,” he hissed, looking around as if suddenly remembering we were in public. “I said I didn’t want them.”
I looked at the bag of worms before holding them up.
“Oh, these? No, they’re for me. Low blood sugar,” I said with a wink.
Grumbling, he stalked over and grabbed the bag out of my hand, scowling at me. “Mine.”
Biting back a smile, I handed my card over to the girl who was patiently waiting for our antics to be over, before I pressed a kiss to his temple. “All yours, little bird.”
I gathered up our drinks and popcorn and ushered him to the theater, where we sat in the back. There were a few other groups in there with us, in sets of two and three, but I paid them no mind as I set our drinks in the holders and the popcorn on the seat next to me.
When Aiden settled into his seat, I tugged him in against my side, with his head on my shoulder. He let out a content sigh, and I wondered when the last time was that he had just let himself relax. Especially with someone else.
“Thank you, Daddy.” His words were quiet, and I almost missed them with the way his head was buried in my neck.
I squeezed his neck and he sat back to look at me just as the lights started to dim.
By the time the previews were over and the movie had started, his arms were wrapped around my neck and I was leaving love bites all along his jaw.
“We… we need, fuck. We need to stop, Daddy.” His words were breathy as he panted, practically moaning as I bit at the hinge of his jaw.
“Hmmm. Do we? I don’t see anyone complaining.” I licked astrip up his neck and reveled in the way he shuddered under me.
His eyes met mine and the way he tried to look stern was adorable. “Yes. I’m an officer of the law. I can’t get caught in the back of a movie theater like this.”
With a sigh, I disentangled myself from him because he was right. And the last thing I wanted was to make his life even more difficult than I already had.
I booped his nose, enjoying the shocked look on his face. “You win, little bird.”
Reaching over, I grabbed his bag of gummy worms and snorted at the betrayed look on his face. “Open up, little bird. Let Daddy bird feed you.”
