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“Dammit, you’re not supposed to comment when you sense something is bothering me,” I say with a rueful smile.
Fun and games, that’s what we were before. Now he wants to talk and connect and make me cry and shit.
The new and improved Herc is not just physically toned but also into feelings and being mature.
Why should I be surprised? Our conversations had never gone deep before, but he was always kindhearted. Herc is so easy to fall in love with.
This is why I’m not okay. He’s comforting when he’s around. Effortless to love. He’s just…uncomplicated. Without him around, the world is rough and harsh. And people are annoying.
He’s like coffee. I don’t drink coffee for me. Coffee makes me palatable for the world, and keeps me from frightening small children. It’s fucked up, but maybe…maybe Herc is good for me because I’m a better version of myself when he’s around.
“It’s true, you weren’t there. But I wanted you there. I wish you’d been there when I got the news from Cass about her pregnancy. I wish you hadn’t been so sad without me. But we’re past that now. I want you here for all the rest of it. Family stuff. Friend stuff.”
That reminds me. “I want you to come to the baby shower tomorrow.”
“Leela didn’t invite me,” he says.
“Because of me. She’ll be fine with you there, and so will everyone else.”
“They will?” Herc asks.
“Yes. Because we’re back together. For real. For good.”
He pauses and looks like he doesn’t believe me. “We are?”
I nudge him with my foot. “Stop asking questions like you didn’t see where this was going.”
He cups my face and dabs away the wetness on my cheek with his thumbs.
My lips long to be kissed again.
In our previous times together, I let him be the pursuer. If I wanted a kiss, I would wait until he made the first move.
Tonight, I want to be kissed, and I will admit it. I turn my face toward him, my eyes on Herc’s lips.
He answers with a gentle brush of his lips over mine. I sigh, wanting more, and Herc answers by laying me on the bed, him sliding in behind me. He blankets me with his heat from my head to the backs of my feet. And it feels so good.
One arm cradles my head, and instead of that other arm going around my middle to pull me in closer, I feel him reaching around for something.
Oh.
Nervously, I tuck a lock of hair behind my ear and bite my lip. Heat pools in my belly as I wait for what comes next.
I gasp when the arm that cradles me comes around, caging me against him, his hand pressing my opposite shoulder against his chest.
“This is how I hold you still.”
I suck in a breath.
Herc tastes my earlobe, and while that’s warm and exciting, I don’t know where his other hand is right now or what it’s doing. And somehow, that’s even more exciting.
I soon find out.
The cold flat of the blade presses against the soft, exposed skin of my upper rib. “Oh.”
Any lower on my ribs, and I’m ticklish. He knows that. He remembers. I move my hands out of the way by holding on to his forearm that’s caging me. Like a grab bar on a roller coaster. Here comes the slow climb to the top.
I feel his cock twitch against my backside. Hard once again in response to my shocked gasps at the ice-cold metal that makes me shiver. He turns the blade, the sharp end barely touching my skin, and I hold my breath. The dual sensations of Herc’s body heat against my back and the cold edge scraping harmlessly over my body sends me into another place in my mind. I close my eyes and melt into him.
