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Warren
“This is utter perfection.” Jane sighs and leans over the railing on the balcony. Up near Vail, Colorado, rests a gorgeous cabin home that a friend of Jane’s owns. Though, according to her, he’s someone well known and spends most of his time in California, leaving this home empty more often than not.
So Jane thought we should take advantage of it and give the home some attention.
I couldn’t have agreed more.
Between her work and mine, we’ve both been stressed about life. Not having enough time together to just be was putting a strain on everything good in our lives. Getting away from it all was for the good of our sanities and relationship.
I step up behind her, wrapping her in my arms and squeezing tight. I breathe in her scent and kiss her head. “And we’ve got that hot tub.” I tilt my head to the side where said hot tub rests and Jane spins in my arms, her glow—the one that shines when she’s happiest—is starting to come through again and I love seeing it.
That spark in her eye, the easy way she moves, the tension leaving her shoulders.
Yeah, getting away was the right move.
She looks up at me with her cute, shy way, and whispers, “I’ve never had sex in a hot tub.”
I smirk and lean down, taking her lips with mine and tease her with my tongue. “Well, we have something to rectify then.”
Hot tub sex is amazing.
I said it, I’m not taking it back, and I’ll say it again.
Hot tub sex isamazing.
Having saidHTSon a balcony overlooking the mountains with no one in view for miles around, with the woman I loved strewn across my lap while she moaned my name, giving me one of the best nights of my life? Fucking amazing.
That’sfuckingamazing.
Currently, she and I were working on making dinner in the massive kitchen while she forced me to listen to an audiobook of some fantasy series she was into. She was pretty obsessed with it, and only because she was so cute when she talked about it was I into indulging her tonight with this particular thing. I wasn’t really into fantasy books, but for her, I would try it out.
She was checking pasta while I cut vegetables to add to a stir-fry. The fragrance in the air made my stomach rumble with hunger.
We both worked silently so we could hear the book play, it was a bit of a slow start, but she told me that was necessary for “world building.” I learned all sorts of fascinating things about this woman.
Someone entered the scene, sounded like some jerk of a guy—orfae mortal whatsawhosit—and Jane grinned, doing a little happy dance and giggling.
I reach over and pause the book. “Wow.” I raise both brows at her and lean my hip against the counter. “You are seriously into this.”
“Warren.” She gives me a cute little head cock and moves in front of me, setting her hand on my shoulder, her eyes holding mine in a serious gaze. “Books arelife.They mean so much to me. The fact that I can pick up a book, and lose myself in another world right at my very fingertips—priceless. Absolutelypriceless.”
I nod and give her a quick peck on the lips. “I get it. I mean, I like a good book every now and then.”
“But you’d prefer to draw or write your own stuff.”
“Well, I don’t write fiction. That’s a whole other world from poetry.” She smiles at me and we both turn back to the tasks at hand.
“I love your poetry, just reading what you’ve given me, it makes me happy.”
I smile slightly and sigh. “Well, hopefully it’ll make a publisher happy one of these days and I can get the ball moving.”
“How’s your agent doing? Finding any leads there?”
I finally landed an agent—a smaller one, for sure, but an agent, nonetheless. She’s not local, but we sat on an online meeting and nailed down what needed to happen in order for her to shop the book around.
Apparently, my little formatting didn’t do the trick, so she directed me to some professional help, too. The amount of money I’ve put in for a cover and formatting was a bit more than I’d originally planned for, but if someone took it on, I would be thrilled.
