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“Really? You like it?” She seems excited at the thought.
“I love it, know what I’d love more.” I grab her and bunch up the shirt but she swats my hands away.
“No, you need to eat.”
“Didn’t you say I could have you later?” I complain.
“Yes, later is still yet to come.” She runs her fingers over my bandage and concern wrinkles her pretty face. “How does your wound feel? Are you in pain?”
“I’m okay. Used to it.”
“Still going to the hospital though,” she nods.
“Am I?”
“Don’t play with me Nick,” she shakes her head at me and saunters back around to the stove and mixes some scrambled eggs.
I watch her and again this feels weird, like I woke up in a dream within a dream where she’s my girl. She’s my girl taking care of me.
That’s what this feels like, exactly like that, like I know it’s not real but part of me hopes it is and another part knows I can’t keep running from reality.
“You gonna just play house with me or do I get to help?”
She lifts her head and looks at me. “Maybe I’m playing house with you.”
Maybe I’ll let her.
I’m the one who wants to forget.
I sit and watch her busy herself around the stove then she serves the food and brings me a plate.
She moves to go back but I catch her and pull her down into my lap.
“Nick, I’m serious, later,” she complains .
She’s about to say something else when I grab the knife and fork and cut off a piece of the pancake to feed her. She looks momentarily stunned but like a little bird she opens her mouth and takes the food. I watch, watch her eat and swallow. She then smiles and grabs the other fork she set for herself and gathers up some of the scrambled eggs to give me.
I take it and that’s what we do, we feed each other until the food is gone and then I grab the rest and we finish that too.
I’m aware of the time and that she probably needs to get back to her family but I don’t want her to go.
Not just yet.
I can’t believe it. A badass mobster like me is busying himself playing house with this angel.
She runs her fingers over my chest when we finish and I catch her hand. I decide what we’ll do for a few more minutes then I’ll take her home. For the first time since I’ve known her my decision doesn’t involve her being naked.
I want the inside. I want what’s inside her.
“Tell me about Harvard, scholarship girl.”
She smiles at that.
“I did law. I devoted my life to studying law. I must have been twelve when I decided that was what I was going to be. A lawyer. An intellectual property attorney. I even knew that too. I heard it in this movie and it was a female attorney and she was so badass with her knowledge, and a little like me. When people first meet me they assume I’m soft and weak...”
I’m enjoying listening to this. “Until you open your mouth.” I fill in and she chuckles.
“Yeah, probably. I’m really good. I loved being at Harvard. It was amazing. I felt like I was in my element and the resources they had there blew my mind. Then there were all the people I met. I started my internship in L.A, got a little over half way through and then I had to stop.”
