"Oh, I'll put those away, Amos." She jumps in front and blocks me in the hallway. "I...Ineed to clean up, anyway. From earlier."
My kitten. She doesn't know I already took care of it to spare her from having to do it. "I already did, baby." When embarrassment drops her head, I add, "Don't. There's no shame in what happened, because look where it brought us. Right here to this moment. Now, why don't you open the door for me and sit on the bed while I unpack?"
Dropping our things beside the bed, I take her phone and dig the SIM card from my pocket. Inserting it, I hand it to her. "Probably needs charged. You can use my charger until we get the rest of your stuff here. When you have a full battery, I'll add you to the family feature on it so we can both see where the other is."
Mercy connects it and sits on the bed, legs curled underneath her as she traces a hand over her stuffed rabbit's ear.
"How long have you had that? It seems very important to you."
Her fingers stall. "Yes. My parents died when I was two years old. I was in the car with them when they crashed, and God only knows how I survived when I slid free of my car seat. I was told when the ambulance arrived, the paramedics found me sitting on the side of the road holding this rabbit and sucking my thumb."
A thumb—maybe even the same one—reaches up to wipe away some suspicious wetness. "I either had no other family or no one wanted to claim me, so I was put into state custody. Luckily, I was able to keep my rabbit when I was passed around from home to home. It's the only thing I have from my time with my parents that's truly mine. I...alwaysthought of how I couldn't wait to pass it down to my own children."
I can't stay away any longer. A quick tug and she's flat on her back, breath leaving her as I crawl over her and cage her in my arms. "Mercy, I swear to you that we're going to make a family. We won't let a little thing like biology stop us." Now to clear the heaviness from the air. "We'll start tonight."
Her limbs jolt in surprise. "You mean..."
"That's right, kitten. You got some extra time last week, but tonight you're mine." I nuzzle her cheek. "All mine.Sohere's what's going to happen. When I finish putting our things away, we're going to the reading room and you'regonnasit on one end of the couch and I'mgonnasit on the other. We're both going to find something to do until it's time for dinner. Then you'regonnapick out whatever you want to wear, get all fancied up, and we're going out to eat. So go ahead and get your nerves all worked out because when we get home, we're going to make love right here"—I angle my knee to graze her sweet spot—"in our bed."
I've never seen her pupils dilate so quickly. "Why did you tell me that? Now I won't be able to think of anything else."
That's easy. "Because I don't want to be the only one waiting with anticipation. I want that pussy so wet for me it runs down your legs while we're eating." I give her more of my weight, taking care not to crush her but needing her focused completely on me. "Want you thinking about my cock sliding in so deep when your legs are wrapped around me. Want you thinking about your fingernails clawing my back so hard I'll wear the marks for days."
She squirms underneath me with a quiet moan, but I swallow it with a hard kiss.
"Tonight, Mercy, we belong to each other."
Ittakesgreatself-restraintconsidering it's the first time we've been truly alone in the past week and a half, but I'm managing to keep my hands off of her this afternoon.
For two hours now I've held a book, but I wouldn't know if it's upside down or written in another language because all I can see is Mercy. My hands may be safely preoccupied, but my eyes? Those greedy things keep searching over the book and catching on her. On her toes. Her thighs. Zooming in extra hard at the vee of her legs, just in case a glimpse of the promised land is revealed.
She's doing her fair share, too. I see the shy sideways glances she throws under the guise of peering out the window, but I know better.
"Is the window behind me your favorite one or is there something else drawing your attention to it?" I shouldn't tease, but the blush that floods her face is priceless.
"You...the...the wind keeps blowing and moving the branches. The noise caught my attention is all." A shoulder curves nonchalantly in a shrug.
"Hmm." The book in my hands hides my amusement.Sureit did. It couldn't possibly be happening in any of the other windows in this room. The same windows that have the same trees with the same wind blowing in the same direction. "You want to watch some cartoons or something else?"
"No, I'm good. All good," she breathes out.
"If you say so." Dipping my head back down, I pretend to skim the words again, but a heavy sensation tells me to look up. When I do, I know why.
Her eyes are glued to my crotch. If they stay there much longer, something else is going to move and catch her attention. Clearing my throat makes her jump guiltily.
That's it.
Firmly closing the book with a snap, I lean over and snatch her crossword puzzle out of her hand. "Whatchagot there, baby? Oh, you haven't been able to solve any of them. This one giving you a hard time?" Innuendo drips from my voice.
Flustered, she lunges for it. Not expecting her sudden movement, I halfway fall on top of her, head landing on her stomach.
Now this is more like it.
No. Slowly back away and wait until tonight.
Back away. Back a—
My nose dips between her legs, inhaling deeply.Too late."Ahh...divine." I nip the side of her thigh through her jeans. With no prompting, her leg falls open, silently begging for more.She's killing me.
