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“I don’t usually.”
“No. I suppose not.”
“Do you have a point to make?” I asked as I picked up my keys and my phone.
“I just hope you know what you’re doing.”
“I’m trying not to think too hard about it.”
“Would that be so bad?”
“Mum!” I snapped, then sighed and forced myself to breathe. “I… I just want to do right by her. I’ll do right by her.”
Mum nodded and I could see she wanted to believe me. “Okay.”
“Okay?”
She nodded faster. “Yes, love. Okay.”
I was in a foul mood when I got to Piper, and she didn’t ask me any questions. She just let me hug her tight and sit in silence together until I’d got over it. Or as over it as I was going to get.
Thursday was our last night together. After just hanging out all day, we all had dinner with Mum and Maddy. Mum thankfully didn’t say anything embarrassing, but she fawned over Piper like I’d given her a ring already. After dinner, Piper headed back to hers while I stayed to put Maddy to bed.
Thankfully, my niece was tired from acting up for Piper all night, so she was down quickly, and I was knocking on Piper’s back door a mere twenty minutes later.
“Hey,” she said with a bright smile. “You caught me–”
“Masturbating to thoughts of me?” I interrupted cheekily.
She pushed me playfully as I walked in. “Dancing and singing like a total goober.”
I smirked at the image as much as the word choice. “A goober?”
She frowned. “Do you have a problem with goobers, Lombardi?”
I shook my head, fighting my smile. “Not at all, Barlow. I find I’m quite partial to them.”
She broke out into a laugh as she took my hand and led me up to her room. “Them?”
“Her,” I admitted.
“Good,” she said, clearly knowing what I meant thankfully without me having to actually say it.
“What utter horror have you got in store for me tonight?” I asked her.
She grinned as she turned me, then pushed me onto her bed. My eyebrow quirked and I felt the smirk dancing at my lips. I liked where this was going, but she needed to know it wasn’t necessary. I didn’t need to get off to consider being with her a good time.
“What?” she asked. “You don’t like me being in charge?”
My smirk blossomed to life. “Oh, I love it. But I am perfectly happy to watch one of your awful Rom-Coms.”
“Happy?” she challenged as she climbed into my lap.
I conceded that one. “All right, not happy but I will. No arguments.”
Her fingers found their way to the hair at my neck and her smile lit up her eyes. I definitely didn’t need her in my lap to get fucking hard, but it certainly did the job.
“You know we can’t do this tomorrow night,” she said.
