CHAPTER
SEVENTEEN
Monday was Kyle’s favorite day of the week.
He and Madison saw no one but each other, and after her gesture in front of their family yesterday, he wanted to wrap her up in his arms and kiss her senseless without interruption.
Except, perhaps, for a trip to the freezer for ice cream.
He finally let her out of bed when she picked up his watch and made a face. “It’s almost noon!”
“And that’s a problem because…”
“Ah… We missed breakfast.”
The look on her dewy face had him stretching back against the bedding in a way guaranteed to make her forget about food. “Where did it go?”
“You know what I mean. We both get hangry when we go too long without eating while having sex.”
“I can take it if you can,” he only responded.
She narrowed her eyes before heading into the bathroom.
He heard her cry out, “My hair is still perfect. That’s two days straight! Will the madness ever end?”
He hauled himself out of bed with a laugh and tried todrag her back under the covers, but she held the line on needing fuel.
Over breakfast, he caught her checking out her hair in various appliances. Her hand would inch up to touch the ends when she thought he wasn’t watching.
It was cute, but he tried not to smile.
She worried her mouth as she played with the handle of her coffee cup. “So, what do you want to do now? I was going to get dressed. You might too—and then we could…do something.”
An odd request. Was this a result of her gesture yesterday? Did she think they needed to do more couple things?
Usually, they’d finish breakfast and head back upstairs until it was time for dinner, which sometimes involved takeout or them cooking together. Well, mostly her, although he prepped beside her. Little of it involved getting dressed. “What would you like to do?”
“How about we watch a movie?” she asked, almost nodding to herself. “Something with lots of action.”
Madison didn’t watch much TV, but she loved the odd action movie. In fact, she’d been so relieved to find out he wasn’t into rom-coms that it had made him almost fall off the bed laughing.“Fast Five?”
“You know me too well.” Her grin looked a little forced though. “How about we hole up in the living room?”
He raised a brow. Most of the time, they’d stretch out in his bed—their bed. Except she’d mentioned getting dressed. “Sure.”
“Come on.” She flashed him another smile. “We’ll get dressed together.”
He didn’t argue with her, but he wasn’t sure how to take this change of pace. She had an idea about how she wanted today to go, though, so he got dressed, like she’d requested, and joined her downstairs.
Settling onto the couch, he talked her into tangling herfeet with his, but they sat on opposite sides as cars raced and bad guys went down. When their exterior door announced a visitor, she jumped off the couch. “Stay comfortable. I’ll see who it is. Probably Dean. You know him and boundaries.”
Except Dean had honored their desire to be alone, but Kyle stayed put, noting that she took Pierre from the room with her.
When the front door opened, he heard a dog bark, followed by playful yips.
“What in the world?” he mused, rising from the couch. He followed the sounds and stopped short. Madison was letting in a young brunette holding the leashes for a whole bunch of puppies. He couldn’t believe his eyes.
“Surprise!” Madison cried out, dancing in place as a golden-colored puppy attacked her leg while a white-and-black one sniffed at her ankles.
