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Her right eyebrow jutted up on her pretty face. “What did you do?” she almost spat. She looked angry but sounded amused.
“I did a load of laundry. Just your towels and robe. Well, that’s how it started anyway.”
“And?”
I shrugged. “I went to put the towels away, and I just . . . I couldn’t take it.”
“Couldn’t take a linen closet with towels and sheets and . . . that’s what goes in there.”
“It was messy.”
“Messy?”
“Very unorganized. Everything was all jumbled together. No order to anything. Sheets here and here. And here,” I said, gesturing to the three shelves.” Her face was perplexed. “Then there were your towels.” She was silent still. And it was vexing me. “Look, I couldn’t take it,” I finally admitted raising my hands and letting them fall. In frustration. In defeat. “I didn’t mean for it to piss you off.”
Her eyes were locked onto me. Even when I was being berated by my commander, I never felt as small and stupid as I did now.
She burst into a sudden fit of laughter. “I’m not pissed,” she said through her laughter. “But seriously, this really puts a kink in things.”
“How so?”
“Because”—she took a folded hand towel out, unfolded it, and then refolded it exactly how I had it—“Oh my God!”
“What?” I said, my voice raised as hers was.
“This is not normal, Tyler. I can’t . . . I can’t . . .”
“What?”
“I can’t fold a sheet.” She peeked up at me. “And now you know my dirty little secret. Folded sheets are my archnemesis. And now . . . well, now I’m going to have to call you every time I have to fold one of those little bastards.” She glared at the perfectly folded linens.
“You can call on me anytime.” I didn’t just mean for folding fitted sheets, either.
“Mmm-hmm.” She shook her head, dismayed.
“I can teach you, though. If you want,” I suggested.
“Uh-uh. No way am I trying that again. I’ve failed every single time. It’s okay.”
“Oh, all right.”
“Besides,” she started and brought her hands around my neck, “I’d rather have an excuse to get you over here.”
“Oh?”
“And in my bed.”
“Oh.”
“I mean, the way I see it, if I’m going to wash my sheets, I might as well make sure they’re worth washing.”
She laughed as I picked her up and lifted her over my shoulder. I carried her to her bed and threw her down onto it. Her smile was brighter than I’d seen in days.
I considered our surroundings and said, “On second thought, maybe not in here, on the bed.”
“Ooh. That sounds kinky.”
That made me chuckle. “Couch?” I suggested.
